“To me, it’s not the middle of nowhere,” Donald Judd once said of Marfa. “It’s the center of the world, basically because I like the land and I like to be here.” In the 1970s, when he left New York for the small Texas town, Judd was disillusioned with the gallery system, arguing that art was too often “exhibited badly” and only temporarily. His solution was radical: install works in spaces designed for them and never move them again. In the arid desert terrain of Marfa, he repurposed industrial buildings into studios, homes, and vast installations. This exhibition traces that vision, moving from the artist’s early 1950s paintings to the rigorous three-dimensional works of the 1960s and then all the way to the 1990s, with a special focus on Judd’s plans for Marfa through drawings, models, films, and archival material. “The main purpose of the place in Marfa,” he said in 1985, “is the serious and permanent installation of art.” —Elena Clavarino