Yesterday the Texas Cultural Trust (TCT) released its State of the Arts Report, which looks at the economic (and for the first time, educational) impact of the arts on the…
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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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Amongst Dallas-based arts writers who actually write critically about visual art, Loris Gréaud’s show at the Dallas Contemporary is zero for three. (We won’t count the glowing PR blurbs from machines…
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Texas A&M University-Commerce has commissioned North Carolina-based sculptor Patrick Dougherty, an artist known for his massive outdoor bent-sapling installations, to create a new temporary public artwork for the campus. The artist,…
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A five-alarm fire that broke out in a warehouse behind the 4000 block of Commerce Street in Dallas on December 15 has displaced a number of residential and commercial tenants of…
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A year after the death of folk artist Cleveland Turner, a.k.a. The Flower Man, his Houston house on Francis Street and much of its contents have been found unsalvageable due…
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For Loris Gréaud's show at the Dallas Contemporary, is the destruction of the work meant to be our release from all that industry? If so, I might have welcomed more destruction and less burden.
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The Texas Cultural Trust has embarked on its eighth biennial of honoring “amazing Texans who have made powerful contributions to the arts here at home and around the world” with…
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The giant faded mural on the 5900 block of Canal Street in Houston is getting a restoration. “The Rebirth of Our Nationality” was painted in 1973 by artist Leo Tanguma and some…
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Sue Graze, former executive director of Austin’s Arthouse at the Jones Center, has been named the interim director of San Antonio’s artist residency Artpace. This is following the departure of…
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The announcement: Some very wealthy people made some very generous donations that will allow the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to expand dramatically. It will create, essentially, a new campus…
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Two of Dallas’ newer, splashier galleries in the Design District, Cydonia and Zhulong, are holding the first installment of a planned ongoing workshop/seminar called “Art Collecting 101” next Saturday, January…
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The art space up to now known as The Brandon, at 1709 Westheimer Road in Houston, is no longer. The new project taking root there and scheduled to open January 16 with a…
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A couple of days ago the Goss-Micheal Foundation (in)formally announced that it had added Michael Mazurek, the ultra-active Dallas artist and co-founder of the DB/Dallas Biennial series, as its “newest member…
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UPDATE plus UPDATE: Earthquakes Continue to Rattle Dallas, And of Course the Design District is Very Close To the Epicenter
11:11 a.m. Wed. Okay, they keep on coming, so no more updates from me. Keep an eye on this DMN blog courtesy the intrepid Robert Wilonsky if you…
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PrintAustin, a non-profit outfit dedicated to raising awareness of Austin’s impressive status as a hotbed of printmaking, begins its third annual month-long showcase of prints. Beginning January 15 and hosted…
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The in-district migration of Dallas galleries continues. Holly Johnson Gallery is leaving its Dragon Street space of nearly ten years to take up a new space a few blocks away,…
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Houston Center for Photography‘s board announced today that Sarah Sudhoff, former Time Magazine and Texas Monthly photo editor and founder of Photohive, has been hired as its newest Executive Director. Via…
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The Long Slow Death of Kim Jong-un Vs. The Death of Comedy As We Know It: A Proposal
I am prepared to sit through thousands of good-to-terrible Kim Jong-un jokes for a year just to make a point.
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The San Antonio Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Anna Stothart as The Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She’s currently Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art…
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Rice University is set to open up its new multi-use art space, the Moody Center for the Arts, in early 2016 and has put out a call for applications for its…