The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the last of the major New York museums to jump on the dedicated-app wagon. While the museum has been dabbling in digital for a…
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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Are you the type to ask an artist: "Can you recommend an art consultant who might know if you’re any good or not?"
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Texas artists who own any land in the state might be interested to know how a Canadian artist has handled the pesky oil, natural gas, and pipeline companies that want…
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Yesterday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston announced that it has installed on its South Lawn a new acquisition, Albero folgorato (Lightning Tree), by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The installation…
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Goldsmiths MFA grad and Dallas native Hanh Ho is opening up a new gallery in the Design District and she’s calling it Cydonia*. The first exhibition is a group show…
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While excavating, a farmer in Ellis County hit the tusk of a mammoth buried on his land; further investigation by the pros have unearthed a nearly complete and intact female Columbian…
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I’ll restate something, for the umpteenth time: People in the art community here are too polite.
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For every new art season, KERA and the Dallas Museum of Art pair up to bring us the State of the Arts conversation series, with one of the evenings dedicated…
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The Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston continues its Mitchell Artist Lecture, which “spotlights innovation and the creative process,” on September 10 with Laurie Anderson, NYC-based pioneering…
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Following yesterday’s news about Austin’s Museum Day comes news of Fort Worth’s similar initiative, now in its ninth year, called a Day in the District (meaning FW’s Art District). This family-friendly…
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The 17th Annual Austin Museum Day returns September 21 with its hallmark free admission to 35 institutions and non-profits throughout the city; many of the spaces offer special events and…
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Dallas Road Crews Mistake Public Art for Dumpster. (Not Really. They Were Just Being Irresponsible.)
Yesterday it was documented that some Dallas roadworks contractors had been using the beloved public sculpture at the entrance to Deep Ellum as a dumping ground. Loose bricks, open bags…
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The intensity and ego-wrangling within art collectives makes them nearly impossible to sustain for very long, so the loss of Homecoming as we know it comes as no surprise.
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A coalition of Dallas art institutions and groups has formed to create the ongoing workshop series called “The Business of Art.” It’s a doozy of an alliance. Here’s who is…
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Today, the Dallas Museum of Art launched its new and vastly improved digital database, years in the making and slated to be complete by 2016, which will “…dramatically improve online…
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Heads up, design buffs: Oscar de la Renta, iconic fashion designer to women of means, is the subject of a thorough exhibition spanning fifty-plus years of his work at The…
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News from San Antonio: The Linda Pace Foundation (or LPF, the umbrella foundation responsible for the artist residency ArtPace as well as grants, scholorships, public projects and other non-profit art-related…
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Well, this is cool. In an ongoing effort by the city to boost its green image, Houston’s recycling trucks are being makeover into mobile (and functional) works of art through…
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In some ways the late closing date of this group show elongates the casualness of summer, which I appreciate. Summer in Texas should officially last until around September 27th. It could be our consolation for enduring the pitiless heat.
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There is a new roving art space in Houston called Self Actualization; it will stage its shows and events in various “vacant commercial real estate spaces,” and opens at 2800…