Prada Marfa Vandalized

The vandalization of Elmgreen and Dragset’s sculpture Prada Marfa brought a lot of attention to the work, Greg Harman writes in the Houston Press. Gallery-hoppers in Marfa started scanning eBay daily, awaiting the re-emergence of the stolen Prada shoes (all for the right foot) and bags, while local sheriff Tom Roberts told the press he was on the lookout for a one-legged woman with a taste for high fashion. Fairfax Dorn, co-founder of Ballroom Marfa, which helped the artists install Prada Marfa, said she believed the job was done by someone in town. A jealous artist, perhaps. Inevitably, rumors started to circulate that the crime had been an inside job committed by the artists themselves, who would have driven by the store on their way back to the airport the morning of the robbery. “It’s funny how some people believe that artists would be so keen on press coverage and fame that they would be even willing to destroy their own art work in order to get some attention,” the artists responded.

Read it all in the Houston Chronicle