{"id":3550,"date":"2014-08-17T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T01:57:30","slug":"prada-marfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"Prada Marfa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The brainchild of Berlin-based artistic team Elmgreen and Dragset, Prada Marfa was meant to be a \u201cpop architectural land art project.\u201d Built of a biodegradable adobe-like substance, the building is meant to slowly melt back into the Earth, serving as a surrealist commentary on Western materialism. Prada Marfa is located\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off U.S. Route 90, and about 60 km northwest of the city of Marfa.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Costing a sum total of $80,000 &#8211; or, put another way, about 40 Prada handbags<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/prada-e1408672534807.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/prada-150x129.jpg\" alt=\"prada\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>Due to vandalism the handbags have no bottoms and all of the shoes are right-footed. While the vandalism might be the most exciting thing that\u2019s ever happened to Prada Marfa, the site still gets thousands of visitors a year, despite Route 90\u2019s low traffic flow Most people buy the artists\u2019 story, but a few vocal dissenters have flooded the internet with conspiracy theories. Some even argue that Prada Marfa is a trap set by aliens meant to attract potential abductees. Visitors beware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In March of 2014, the Prada in Marfa was vandalized with blue paint and graffiti. Image was taken with the TL 120.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brainchild of Berlin-based artistic team Elmgreen and Dragset, Prada Marfa was meant to be a \u201cpop architectural land art project.\u201d Built of a biodegradable adobe-like substance, the building is meant to slowly melt back into the Earth, serving as a surrealist commentary on Western materialism. Prada Marfa is located\u00a0\u00a0northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,76],"tags":[14,432,431,81,124],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a27","category-folioa","tag-dorothy-mladenka","tag-marfa","tag-prada","tag-texas","tag-tl120-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}