Marfa’s Art World Gentrification
After artist Donald Judd moved to Marfa, Texas in 1971, he quickly transformed the cow town into the art world’s desert outpost, much to the chagrin of some locals. Now, the gentrifying city’s rising property values and mushrooming taxes are threatening to push out long-time residents altogether, according to an eye-opening article by John MacCormack published last month in the San Antonio Express-News. “We’re lucky the world discovered Marfa, but the week your property values get sextupled is not the best time to get people to admit it,†cartoonist Gary Oliver said.
