March 10, 2006

Pop-Art Retail Stores: Prada Marfa

by Guy Brighton

Prada Marfa 1Prada has built “Prada Marfa” - a permanent public art sculpture in the middle of nowhere. The artwork, a 15 1/2- by 25-foot stucco and adobe rectangular building filled with expensive hand-crafted Prada shoes and handbags, went up a couple of weeks ago on desolate ranch land on the outskirts of Valentine: population 217 and roughly a 2 1/2-hour drive southeast of El Paso.

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One Response to “Pop-Art Retail Stores: Prada Marfa”

  1. mark
    Posted from: 71.213.178.61

    April 21st, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    The Prada Marfa piece was quite controversial in town with the locals. And not just the cowboys, actually many of the local artists (emigrants from far away places like LA and NY) actually had some of the most negative reactions to the piece… Personally, I’m still not sure what to think of it. You can go to our blog at http://www.marfa.org to find more. Or straight to here: http://www.marfa.org/2005/09/prada-marfa-wrap-your-head-around-this.html

    Ya’ll come back, ya hear?,
    Mark

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