Starting later this month, UTD’s Artist Residency, CentralTrak, will host a three-part workshop for artists “who wish to hone their skills and receive guidance while professionalizing their practice.” Each workshop…
Christina Rees
Christina Rees
Christina Rees was the Senior Texas Editor at Glasstire from 2014-2017, and Editor-in-Chief at Glasstire from 2017-2021. In the past, she's served as an editor at The Met and D Magazine, as the full-time art columnist at the Dallas Observer, and has contributed art, film, and music criticism to the Village Voice, the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and other publications. Rees was the owner and director of Road Agent gallery in Dallas for three years before serving as curator of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts from 2009 to 2013. Prior to joining Glasstire as an editor in July 2014, she was a frequent Glasstire contributor, and continues to write for other publications such as BLAU and Artdesk. Rees is a recent recipient of the inaugural Rabkin Prize, a national $50k award for outstanding arts writing. She’s currently based in Dallas.
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On Thursday October 2 at 8 p.m., one of the most celebrated political cartoonists of our time will speak at SMU’s Bob Hope Theater, as part of the Sammons Lecture…
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The Austin Film Society is expanding its headquarters, Austin Studios, and has partnered with the City of Austin in an open call for Texas artists to submit proposals for a…
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“Street-Level Gallery Of Chalk Masterpieces” at Annual Chalk It Up festival, San Antonio: Artists Announced
ArtPace in San Antonio has announced the 20 artists, chosen by guest curator Nina Hassele, who will participate in the 11th Annual Chalk It Up street festival, which takes place…
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Here’s a nice find: Today Dallas/Marfa-based photographer Nancy Newberry (included in the last Texas Biennial) is featured in the New York Times’ special “Lens” section, which covers photography and photojournalism.…
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Do not attempt this yourselves. These artists are professionals on a closed track.
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Frisco will be the home of the country’s first and only museum dedicated to video games. The Videogame History Museum has up until now been a traveling operation, launched by three…
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Those of us who so fondly remember the golden era of Suzanne Weaver’s “Concentrations” series at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1996-2009 (and credit her for being so uniquely…
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Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa‘s co-founder and outgoing executive director, is transitioning to Ballroom’s artistic director. Today the board has named Susan Sutton as its new executive director. Sutton comes to Marfa…
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Lucia Simek, who has written for this site plenty and recently finished her MFA at TCU in sculpture, is crossing over the the dark side (joke!) as the Nasher Sculpture Center‘s…
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Those of us who came of age in the ‘80s walk into the show with a sometimes dread-inducing association with that time, but walk out feeling at least a little better about this uneven and unsettling moment in recent art history.
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A new gallery called Midway is opening in the re-igniting Fair Park neighborhood of Dallas. The space, owned by Denton transplants Lily Taylor and Sean Miller, both musicians and artists,…
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He put the pic up on Instagram. He’s in the Urban Theater show that opens at the Modern on September 21. Enjoy.
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Joan Davidow, longtime collector, art advocate and formerly head of the Dallas Contemporary, has announced along with the University of Texas at Dallas that her art collection will be installed…
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A very cool offshoot of the Arts and Crafts movement was the Newcomb Pottery collective and college in New Orleans, post Civil-War and lasting until the 1940s. It was centered…
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This is real art by real working artists. The populist bent was a considered choice. The show’s remit is simply to represent each region in the nation and be a people pleaser.
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I do not know where I got the number seven, but here on the ground in Bentonville, Arkansas, during the press preview for Crystal Bridges‘ new State of the Art survey…
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The abjectness of the materials evokes a modern-day Robinson Crusoe or the Professor on Gilligan’s Island trying to build low-tech devices out of anything on hand, for sending out an urgent SOS.
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The acclaimed Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Lecture Series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is starting its new season on September 27. This first installment pertains to…
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In case you didn’t already know about this: Each year the Texas Commission on the Arts chooses two artists (one 2-D, one 3-D) to represent the state, sort of like…