Getting to Marfa is a journey, no matter where you’re coming from. The closest city, El Paso, is a three-hour drive away through the Texas high plains and desert—the region known as Big Bend country—and a ride so deserted that tumbleweeds may block the road. Then again, it’s that very remoteness that brought minimalist artist Donald Judd here in 1971, seeking peaceful creative respite after years spent in the hustle and bustle of New York City.

It was a move that would change the small town forever. Judd’s studio, and the subsequent foundation he built on the grounds of a former military camp—one that displays much of his work to this day—transformed Marfa into a cultural mecca for art aficionados from around the world, attracting everyone from Solange Knowles to BTS ’s Kim Namjoo

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