A popular dog who normally roams freely around Marfa, named Tic Tac but also known as the “Art Town Ambassador” went missing from Marfa just as its Marfa Film Festival was…
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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Why would anyone who is truly creative stay in this state if they could live elsewhere?
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The Dallas Museum of Art, under the direction of chief curator Olivier Meslay, has acquired a masterwork by Danish Norweigan painter Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857). “Frederiksborg Castle by Moonlight,” from…
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Via KLVT Tyler: Last Saturday, an outfit called Therapet held a public event in Tyler in which therapy dogs used “their paws and tails to create one of a kind…
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The Office of Cultural Affairs in Dallas is seeking applications from artists to take on the project of designing a new sculpture to reside near the big iconic bronze giraffe…
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The University of Texas Press has just released a new book, “Midcentury Modern Art in Texas,” by Dr. Katie Robinson Edwards. Packed with never-before-published images, the book covers the important…
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Via the Dallas Morning News: SMU’s Meadows Museum has announced that next year it will show a singularly impressive collection never before exhibited outside of Spain. In what will be…
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Why we could use more Texas in our storytelling
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The Galveston Arts Center, still in the midst of a years-long capital campaign for renovating its original building, has hired Elliot Lessing as interim director, and in his few weeks…
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After months of art community protest (and in the wake of the Rice Art Barn demolition) it looks like the administration at University of Texas at Dallas has stayed the…
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Dallas Arts District Continues to Expand with Restaurants, a Grant Foundation and Public Sculpture
The five-acre area behind the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District is being developed by Craig Hall, a DFW-based developer who is married to Kathryn Hall, the…
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The Texas Contemporary Art Fair has announced some of its growing exhibitor list for 2014, which will be in its fourth season this September at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention…
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Overnight in Houston security guards at Chase Tower downtown stopped some well-dressed thieves from stealing a painting hanging in one of the common areas of the building. The men dressed…
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If a man’s art collection is a window to his soul, then one that recently hit the auction block in Houston leaves us scratching our heads. It turns out that…
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The Richard Phillips show at the Dallas Contemporary makes total sense, and therein lies the problem.
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Via the San Antonio Express-News: a public art sculpture designed and built by a UTSA students has partially collapsed in its park location, either from wind, or being climbed on.…
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Late last week MOCAtv, a web channel devoted to the goings on at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, posted a short but excellent video featuring artist Michael Smith…
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If you want to see how the one of the great art collecting families of Texas used to roll, mark next spring on your calendar. On Friday the Kimbell Art…
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Giant art commissions by two Houston-based artists have been selected as among the top public arts projects in the U.S. by the Public Art Network Year in Review. Patrick Renner…
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On July 5 East-Austin artist space Canopy and Art.Science.Gallery will host The Tesla Project, an all-day celebration of the genius of Nikola Tesla, the popular scientist/inventor/über-geek. The free extravaganza is…