If you’re in North or Central Texas, mark your calendar for August 22: The always-cool Old Jail Art Center in Albany is hosting journalist-performer Gene Fowler as part of its…
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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Via CultureMap Dallas: The long-awaited announcement that the associate exhibitions director at the Dallas Contemporary is opening her own commercial gallery in Dallas came today. Erin Cluley, a graduate of…
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Art In The Metroplex, one of the oldest annual open-call visual art shows in the state, took a three-year break after a 28-year run at Texas Christian University, but now…
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Texas Christian University in Fort Worth has hired a curator for its satellite gallery, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, for the 2014-15 academic year. Sara-Jayne Parsons is coming to Fort Worth…
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If anything, this show makes abundantly clear that the long history of civilization’s relationship to dogs and cats is troubled, mutually exploitative, purely functional (if not dysfunctional), and ambivalent.
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Part Two (continued from yesterday): Texas Artist Populations. How Many Working Artists Are There in Texas?
Following its massive “Artists in The Workforce” report from 2008, the National Endowment for the Arts kept collating and gathering and cross-referencing all the info it could get from the…
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News in Two Parts, Part One: Texas Cities’ Liberalism vs Conservatism and their Artist Populations
Yes, liberal versus conservative environments seem have some bearing on the feasibility of an artist thriving in his or her city, if going by various recent indicators. Today we’ll start…
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Deep Ellum is Always On the Brink But Maybe This Time For Real, Thanks One Good Developer (and Some Artists, Too)
The stretch of 100-year-old empty storefront spaces in Dallas where artists Justin Ginsberg and Jeff Gibbons staged their pop-up art installation programming for two seasons in 2013-14, called Deep Ellum…
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The Tyler Museum of Art is celebrating four decades of collecting and showcasing the work of Texas artists in “Contemporary Texas: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” an exhibition that opens…
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Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced what will be its first show curated by the new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots will open…
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That’s the era we live in: No blank walls no matter how desperate or cheap we may be. Are blank walls that bad?
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Via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: The City of Fort Worth redirected some of its 2014 bond money from art into transportation, so its Public Art Commission is dealing with this…
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We’re closing in on the opening day of Art Everywhere, the nation-wide public art initiative (modeled after a successful UK program of the same name) that will put the images…
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In what seems like a completely appropriate move, the highly respected Public Relations Society of America and other national organizations have recently handed the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas seven different…
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Three-year-old Lab Art, a Los Angeles gallery dedicated to street art and graffiti, is opening a second space in the Dallas Design District in September. Founder Iskander Lemseffer, whose background…
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El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain has been called the best restaurant in the world; the wait list is notorious and you’re looking at a year to get…
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On the surface it seems elementary, but I can’t think of a more sophisticated sensibility than true comic absurdity.
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This Sunday at 7 pm, the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson will host artist Bill Daniel for a screening of his 2005 art-film-cum-documentary “Who is Bozo Texino?”, which is a black-and-white…
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Generous art collector and benefactor Nona Norsworthy Barrett, of Dallas, died last week. She is survived by her husband Richard. There has been no official obituary released as of this…
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Galveston has a new monument, a pink dolphin carved from red limestone quarried from Corpus Christi. The dolphin-sized statue, installed at R.A. Apffel Park/East Beach on the island and conceived…