Ever since Beyoncé posted pictures of her trip with Solange to Marfa in 2012, I’ve wanted to visit the small West Texas town, but I never quite had a good enough reason. With her performance of “Scales” at the Chinati Weekend on Sunday, Solange gave me one. I’ve written before about how Solange’s latest album, A Seat at the Table, has moved and inspired me, and I’ve noticed through social media as Solange has adapted the album into performance pieces at the Menil Collection in Houston and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In August, Solange announced that between her sets at both weekends of Austin City Limits, she would perform a “site specific version” of “Scales” alongside Donald Judd’s “15 untitled works in concrete,” and…
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