ArtPrize, the high-profile organization and event founded by web entrepreneur Rick DeVos and launched five years ago in Grand Rapids, Mich., is the contemporary art competition in which the public…
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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Good art shipping crates and travel frames are incredibly expensive to have made by professional art handling services; they’re bulky, made to stand up to rough shipping conditions, and can be…
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StoryCorps is a national non-profit that uses a “MobileBooth”–an airsteam trailer decked out with a recording studio– to make stops in cities across the country in order to record citizens’…
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Annette Carlozzi, longtime curator at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin, is retiring in December after 18 years on the job. For the Blanton Carlozzi has…
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The latest round of record-breaking NYC auctions on November 12 set a new high (source posted the wrong pic) for Marfa/New York-based Jeff Elrod, painter of digital-abstract scribbles. His 2014 painting…
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Jim Campbell’s “Scattered Light” installation, originally commissioned for Madison Square Park in NYC in 2010, is coming to the outdoor garden at Northpark Center in Dallas. NorthPark’s manicured CenterPark Garden will…
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Anthony Byrt, Auckland-based arts writer and ArtForum contributor, spent 2013 as the Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art just outside Detroit and also wrote a book about globalization’s…
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Dallas-based non-profit outfit Art Conspiracy, which calls itself “street-level philanthropy,” will hold Art Con X this Saturday night starting at 7 p.m. This is the tenth anniversary of what is a…
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Peter Plagens, artist and longtime art critic for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America and ArtForum, also happened to be Bruce Nauman’s studio neighbor in Pasadena throughout the ’70s,…
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Being a guest in someone’s home means entering another culture.
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is participating in the 25th anniversary year of Visual AIDS Day/ A Day With(out) Art by screening a new series of short films…
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The Dallas Museum of Art, as part of its Arts & Letters Live Series, and the Nasher Sculpture Center, through its 360 Speaker Series, team up to host author and art-world vivisector Sarah…
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The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is in its second year of hosting an artist-in-residence program, called The Artist’s Garden, and on Saturday, November 8 at 11.30 a.m. it will…
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Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum is going to move the date of its recently and breathlessly announced House of Alba Collection show, which was going to open next spring, so…
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If Texas had a pavillion at the Venice Biennale, this is the kind of thing I would put in it.
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On Wednesday December 3, The Actors Fund, Dance Source Houston, and Fresh Arts are teaming up with Legacy Community Health Services to host a public workshop called “Every Artist Insured.”…
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To accompany its current exhibition “Postcards from the Trenches” (which looks like a good one), the Printing Museum in Houston is launching a lecture series which begins this evening at 7 p.m.,…
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As mentioned in this space the week before last, the auctioning off of Belo Corporation’s art collection on Oct. 18 in Dallas was sure to be a big success, and…
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The big splashy TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Gala has been one of the biggest art events in Dallas for sixteen years. Held at Howard and Cindy Rachofsky’s…
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Sadness all around. Tracy Hicks, beloved Texas artist who was Dallas-based until a few years ago, died of a heart attack on Friday. He was an active and vocal member…