Prada Marfa

Here is some 2 year old news!
Perched on the side of the road, 40 miles away from Marfa, Texas, (home of the Chinati Foundation , Donald Judd’s museum, a town of 2,500 residents) is Prada Marfa (2005), a permanent sculpture by Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset.

Amidst the tumbleweeds, in the very landscape where Giant was shot stands this exact replica of a typical Prada boutique - displaying accessories from Miuccia Prada’s fall 2005 collection. And it will always be closed.



What would the occasional dehydrated driver think?
All that is reported is a few days after the private view, the words “Dumb” and “DumDum” were spray-painted on two of its outside walls, and six purses and fourteen right-foot pumps were stolen.


Earlier in 2005 the Berlin based artists had installed an ‘80s-era subway station in the basement of the Bohen Foundation in New York’s meatpacking district.
It was called End Station.


“The team was inspired by the Foundation’s existing architecture, as well as by memories of a year spent in New York. “When you’re away, you remember things a little bit different from what they actually are,” says Elmgreen. “The safety lines at the edge of the platform are normally yellow; here they’re white. It’s how we remember them.” There is also garbage from distinct periods—a discarded Tab can, a newspaper dating from the beginning of the AIDS crisis, an anti-Giuliani sticker. Otherwise, the graffiti is neatly scripted, the pillars have a crisp coat of fresh paint, and there’s not a rat in sight.”
From New York Art