And the Dallas Art District continues to grow: A new residential tower is going up at the corner of Flora and Olive, called Atelier/Flora Lofts (and next door to Museum Tower),…
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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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Today was the first (will it be annual?) National Adjunct Walkout Day; at noon on college campuses across the country, adjunct professors were urged by a common cause to walk away…
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Continuing our devotion to watching the movements of former DMA curator Suzanne Weaver: Six months after the announcement of Weaver’s appointment as director of Miami’s beleaguered Institute of Contemporary Art (formerly…
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One section of the coast-to-coast Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) series, called the Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, has struck fear in the heart of local residents. On a stretch of Interstate 10…
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An anonymous gift to Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church has led to the upcoming unveiling of a new permanent public sculpture on church property at the corner of 8th and Brazos streets downtown.…
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California-based sculptor Robert Irwin has spent 14 years planning an installation for the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, and construction for the project is set to begin this summer. This follows…
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SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas and Pastelegram, the non-profit art annual based in Austin, are collaborating on a new online art magazine called Coronagraph. The publication will feature “in-depth interviews between…
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The excellent and popular long-running artist talk series, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern in Fort Worth is starting up its new season this week with guests Janet Zweig and Dan Maginn. The…
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The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced its Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrants program, which will distribute small-sum grants to North Texas artists. Twice a year a jury chosen by the Nasher…
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Guerrilla Girls‘ member “Käthe Kollwitz” (a nom de guerre, n’est pas) will be at Texas Women’s University (Denton) to give a talk in the Margo Jones Performance Hall on Feb. 26.…
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The Dallas Art Fair, entering its seventh year, has released a list of 2015 exhibitors due at its usual Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.) venue starting April 9th. You can read the entire…
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Today the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs released a statement that the anticipated engineering study is complete on Tom Orr and Frances Bagley’s public sculpture White Rock Water Theater (2001).…
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Later this month, the Chicago-based video blogging/comedy group Everything is Terrible! will come to Houston and (and two other Texas venues) for the first time to present an omnibus of…
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The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has just announced the acquisition of a to-be-built Ellsworth Kelly standalone building titled Austin. The stone structure will be 73…
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Nancy Rubins, Californian sculptor of things fantastically giant, metal, and distressing (but great that way), will be on hand next month when University of Texas at Austin celebrates its newest campus…
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So by now we all know that following the opening of his solo show at the Dallas Contemporary and a less-than-glowing review posted by Lauren Smart at the Dallas Observer, French artist…
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This Thursday, German artist Thorsten Brinkmann will give a talk at Rice Gallery about his unusual permanent installation in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood. He’s taken over and transformed the interior of an…
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Today Ballroom Marfa‘s board announced the hire of Laura Copelin as new associate curator. For the past four years she’s been developing exhibitions and programs for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.…
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A few weeks ago the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas announced that it would create a new institute that would be “a bridge between Asian art and western…
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On Feb. 5 UTD’s CentralTrak in Dallas will host a moderated panel called “Art, Immigration & Politics.” The special guest panelist is Havana native and performance artist Carlos Martiel. As his work, which…