Negative reviews have resonance. They’re the ones people remember.
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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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Matt Bourbon's show of new paintings ends at Kirk Hopper in Dallas this weekend, and I urge you to see it if you haven't.
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Nothing in a painting is photographically exact, because physically it can’t be, and that’s where the magic happens.
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Nostalgia has ruled pop culture for 20 years now, but Frazetta is extra special.
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This is a story of a city’s growing pains in the face of standard gentrification, but with a novel, contemporary twist.
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Christina Rees takes us through her favorite show of the summer.
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Do you believe in desensitization? Do you believe in the slippery slope?
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Bruce Nauman, 1973. “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
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Last night I put on my brother’s basic Oculus headset and was quite convincingly and disconcertingly surrounded by sharks. Up, down, in every direction they were circling me in the…
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As with his other books: funny, pithy, full of entertaining aphorisms. His newest is about what happens to romantic love long after the glowy, early “falling in” part. His protagonist…
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Peacock's devil is in her details, around the messy corporeal, family attachment, prosaic signs of middle-class existence, and troubled nostalgia.
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Yesterday Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky posted a perceptive and funny little breakdown of car headlight design; he coined the term “Late Cold War-Era Default Car Face,” and he made an entertaining graphic to go…
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Oh, I love him so. Here’s the Guardian link. Enjoy! https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2016/may/23/martin-creed-new-single-understanding-video-premiere
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The voyeur inside any viewer can look as long as they wish without having to be hosed down by the authorities afterward.
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Some purple prose on a San Antonio (-ish) rose, courtesy Vice, can be found here. There’s a new book out about them by James Burns titled Let’s Go To Hell: Scattered Memories of…
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Horst Faas, 1965, northwest of Saigon.
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Drive By
Unbridled Love for the Crow Collection’s Foo Dogs Since I was a Kid and They Were at the Anatole
Remember that? Nice to grow up with them. Here’s one of the pair. Outside the Crow Collection, Dallas.
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Turkish Parliament going at it.
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But I wish I could have seen him in another spot. A big one with open skies. But I kinda get it. We reap what we sow. And they pay…
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Austin-based artist Jules Buck Jones has designed the official poster for this year’s Austin City Limits. Here’s the full-color version: Here’s the not-really grayscale one: And you can buy one…