1975 Dodge Coronet. Marfa, Texas.

We have posted a sleepy Dodge Coronet wagon with a 520  big block, and Chip Lord sent us a 1958 Dodge Coronet from San Francisco. Here's a 1950 Dodge Coronet from Colorado Springs. 

 

Justin Favela's Piñata Chevy. Ballroom Marfa. Marfa, Texas

 

John Chamberlain's ex-cars.

 

The Chinati Foundation's Chamberlain Building used to be a wool and mohair warehouse in Marfa. In 1983 it was adapted by Donald Judd to house 23 of John Chamberlain's steel sculptures.  Some are from a group of ten cultures constructed on a ranch near Amarillo between 1972 and 1975, and are loosely named after Texas towns and counties. Ant Farm did Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo in 1974. More on Ant Farm.

1995 Ford F150 & 2005 Chevrolet C1500. Marfa, Texas.

               

1967 Buick Skylark. Denver, Colorado.

 

From Markus Anstadt: "Looks like a restoration in progress. Denver neighborhood garage." Here's a 1966 Buick Skylark convertible we posted on a cold day in Maine. A 1970 Skylark in Maine. Great summer car. And speaking of summer cars, here's a 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

1964 Ford Galaxie 500. Marfa, Texas.

We caught a 1962 Galaxy 500 at Pismo Beach last year. And another 1964 Galaxy 500 in Ohio. And here's a 1962 Galaxie 500 we caught in Colorado Springs a while back.

 

Pink Toyota. Marfa, Texas.

The Toyota wagon was part an exhibition called Los Encuentros, featuring several Hispanic/Latino/ Texan artists, at Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, Texas. The Toyota wagon was done by Yvette Mayorga, who "links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to art historic imagery, European colonization and racialism oppression." Many artists these days seem to have semi-read the same books or sat in the same humanities lectures and absorbed a fix of deconstruction and 'theory' and Lecan and Derrida, so the language describing their own works and processes has a startling sameness, artist to artist, show to show. 

Love what she's done with the wagon, though, and with such intricate and committed work she does make a point, though we're not exactly sure what it is.