Extraños Magníficos
On view through September 20, 2025
The Grace Museum
Abilene, Texas
thegracemuseum.org
“Extraños Magníficos”1960s is a contemporary Spaghetti Western, staged at the Texas-Mexico border, investigating nationalism and community. Influenced by her mother’s Italian heritage and her own Texas upbringing, Nancy Newberry draws inspiration for her photos from classic Spaghetti Western movies, the 1960’s subgenre of Italian Western films. She has long been interested in the American archetype, the Wild West, and how its iconic self-image is re-interpreted in the US and by other cultures. Simply telling people she is from Texas begins a discourse laced with stereotypes made famous by the genre.
Find out more here: https://thegracemuseum.org/exhibitions/nancy-newberry-2025/
[Photographs courtesy of Nancy Newberry.]
