Tony Feher at Chinati, on Bad at Sports

Last year, when I was visiting the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, the staff told me to wander down to yonder building to see what Tony Feher was up to. Feher wasn't on site, but he was building an installation, step-by-step, over a period of months.

So one morning I strolled down to Feher's building. Just as I was about to walk through the doorway, into the installation, I noticed a rather large rattlesnake sitting in the weeds in front of the door. I suddenly decided that I should be somewhere else. The next day: Same thing. I gave up.

The Feher installation is all done. I'll have to go back to see the whole thing -- three buildings in all. Check out the Feher-in-Marfa pictures on Flickr.

Feher, a Wal-Martist, discussed how he ended up in Marfa and how he made his Chinati installation on the art podcast Bad at Sports, to which I would have linked ages ago if I'd figured out how. (I'm a non-iTuneser. You can subscribe to Bad at Sports here or visit their blog here. The iTunes-enabled link to the podcast is on the blog.) The BaS crue gets super guests: recent shows have featured Francesco Bonami, Kerry James Marshall, and Rhona Hoffman. Check it out.

(Sidenote: BaS is based in Chicago, which reminds me that so much of the best art-focused new media is based outside of NYC.)