judd’s architectural studio, marfa, texas “in the early 1970s, judd acquired a number of buildings in marfa, texas, converting each to have a specific purpose and demonstrating sensitivity to the original structures while maximizing light and space… most of the properties contained permanent installations of work by judd, as well as the art he collected…” more here.  via: materiallust

judd’s architectural studio, marfa, texas

“in the early 1970s, judd acquired a number of buildings in marfa, texas, converting each to have a specific purpose and demonstrating sensitivity to the original structures while maximizing light and space… most of the properties contained permanent installations of work by judd, as well as the art he collected…” more here. 

via: materiallust

4 months ago

Rainer and Flavin Judd Will Serve as Co-Presidents of Judd Foundation

6 months ago

Interview: Rainer Judd, Artist, Actor, Filmmaker, And President Of The Judd Foundation

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The Judd Oral History Project had its start in 2006 when a local public radio station in Marfa, Texas, wanted to air a series of interviews with people who had known and worked with Judd, whose abrupt move there from New York in 1972 radically transformed the sleepy prairie town into an outpost of the international art circuit. When the proposal reached the Judd Foundation, however, the foundation’s at-the-time newly arrived executive director, Barbara Hunt McLanahan, saw it as an opportunity to gather material for the Judd Foundation’s archive. Meanwhile Rainer Judd, the Judd Foundation’s President and Historical Consultant and a filmmaker in her own right, felt that voice-only radio interviews would not do justice to the rich store of material at hand: as she says, ‘you want to see their faces, don’t you?’

The Donald Judd Oral History Project | Frieze Publishing
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After Judd passed away in 1994 a provision in his will established the Judd Foundation, which operates in both Marfa and New York and competes with Chinati on more or less friendly terms. The legacy the sculptor left behind, not the least of which is his kilometer-long installation of concrete boxes (his literal mark on the earth) on a prickly stretch of Chinati’s main property, attracts artists, gallery owners, and chic entrepreneurs to a city whose residents in 1990 numbered 2,424 — less than one-one thousandth of Brooklyn’s population today. Businesses thrive as tourism pumps life into the economy, and Marfa, a magnet for weekend Texans and the art-world cognoscenti, is rescued from almost certain obsolescence.

But this hagiographic narrative omits much of what makes Marfa tick.

For example, you’ll rarely hear about how two of its biggest property and stakeholders, the Chinati and Judd foundations, are exempt from paying taxes on multiple lots because of their 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. According to Presidio County tax records, Chinati paid $1,189 in taxes in February on four properties valued at a total of $85,490. Another 14 Chinati properties, and all the Judd Foundation’s 19 properties in the county, are exempt from taxes.

Vicky Ho, ”Judge Roy Bean, Donald Judd, and the Myth West of the Pecos”

via: 7STOPS

1 year ago

Judd Foundation: How To Find A Good Lamp Panel Discussion

1 year ago
Donald Judd’s Library in Marfa, Texas.  Image courtesy of Judd Foundation. “Assorted pornography, native plants and the Cold War are among the subjects that fill the library of the artist Donald Judd (1928-1994). But you don’t have to travel to Marfa, Tex., to browse the shelves. Today, Web visitors can click on a floor plan of his two-room library to view the 13,004 volumes arranged exactly as Judd arranged them. The virtual library has been rendered so faithfully that visitors navigate furniture and art designed by Judd and glimpse an artwork by Dan Flavin between the custom bookcases. Construction of the virtual library required 672 photographs of the interior, along with custom software designed by Ryan Tainter. Even Judd’s notes on how he was going to catalog the arts section (by dates of birth and death) are included. Clicking on a spine calls up the book’s Library of Congress details and a physical description. And while the books cannot be checked out, Tainter’s program links to WorldCat and lists lending institutions near the browser where each book is available for loan.” — Shonquis Moreno, “One for the Books: Inside Donald Judd’s Library”, The New York Times, May 26, 2010. via: bellswithin

Donald Judd’s Library in Marfa, Texas.  Image courtesy of Judd Foundation.

“Assorted pornography, native plants and the Cold War are among the subjects that fill the library of the artist Donald Judd (1928-1994). But you don’t have to travel to Marfa, Tex., to browse the shelves. Today, Web visitors can click on a floor plan of his two-room library to view the 13,004 volumes arranged exactly as Judd arranged them. The virtual library has been rendered so faithfully that visitors navigate furniture and art designed by Judd and glimpse an artwork by Dan Flavin between the custom bookcases.

Construction of the virtual library required 672 photographs of the interior, along with custom software designed by Ryan Tainter. Even Judd’s notes on how he was going to catalog the arts section (by dates of birth and death) are included. Clicking on a spine calls up the book’s Library of Congress details and a physical description. And while the books cannot be checked out, Tainter’s program links to WorldCat and lists lending institutions near the browser where each book is available for loan.”

— Shonquis Moreno, “One for the Books: Inside Donald Judd’s Library”, The New York Times, May 26, 2010.

via: bellswithin

1 year ago
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As bad ideas should not be accepted because they are fashionable, good ideas should not be rejected because they are unfashionable. Conventions are not worth reacting to one way or another.

Judd Furniture: Essay
1 year ago

Marfa Voices Trailer (by DavidZwirner)

via: museumsnthings

1 year ago
What’s your relationship with Marfa today? I love Marfa. We’re going there this summer. It’s home, what can you say? Still. It’s changed a lot. It was either going to change or fade away. That’s simply part of the math, you can’t do anything about that. —Flavin Judd, interviewed for “Asked & Answered | Flavin Judd” via: NYTimes photo [from left]: Donald Judd, Flavin Judd and James Bruce Dearing, Donald’s assistant, in a photograph taken around 1970.  from: Carlota Schoolman/James Bruce Dearing Archive, courtesy of the Judd Foundation

What’s your relationship with Marfa today?

I love Marfa. We’re going there this summer. It’s home, what can you say? Still. It’s changed a lot. It was either going to change or fade away. That’s simply part of the math, you can’t do anything about that.

—Flavin Judd, interviewed for “Asked & Answered | Flavin Judd”

via: NYTimes

photo [from left]: Donald Judd, Flavin Judd and James Bruce Dearing, Donald’s assistant, in a photograph taken around 1970. 

from: Carlota Schoolman/James Bruce Dearing Archive, courtesy of the Judd Foundation

2 years ago