In conjunction with its current exhibition by Amy Elkins, which explores death row and the capital punishment system in the U.S. and Texas, the Houston Center for Photography is offering…
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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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The fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas starts up tonight and runs through the weekend, primarily at the Texas Theater, the Kessler Theater, and the Bishop Arts Center, and…
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Houston-based webzine Not That But This–notthatbutthis.com–is celebrating its redesigned site with a party at Project Row Houses this Saturday evening. The website was founded by Nathaniel Donnett in 2012, and features…
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To non-creative people, this must look nuts.
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Renowned British land artist Richard Long was in Dallas over the weekend to install a massive wall piece in the lobby of the new building that anchors Hall Arts, developer…
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Geert Wilders is at it again. The Dutch far-right politician who was the keynote speaker at the “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” last month in Garland, Texas that prompted an attack and left two…
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Every two years FotoFest in Houston, as part of its big international Biennial, offers photography based artists an opportunity to receive honest feedback on their work from more than a dozen visiting art professionals.…
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Dallas-based artist/photographer Misty Keasler’s work has been acquired by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and features in its current show Framing Desire, alongside works by international biggies such…
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I attended a new writers’ conference in Minneapolis over the weekend, hosted by the Walker Art Center. It was called “Superscript: Arts Journalism and Criticism in a Digital Age.”
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News
Hello, Goodbye. A Beatles Memorabilia Show is Coming to Austin and Should We Care At This Point?
First, a qualifier: I am a huge Beatles fan, and have been since I was little. Would I go see this show on my own? I doubt it. There is…
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The good people at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information are making themselves available to advise flood victims on how to best salvage important family heirlooms. Via…
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The longtime, ever-popular lecture series Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) usually only runs through what we think of as the school year.…
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Certainly Houston Arts Alliance has gotten its share of public criticism lately from artists and more, and its new website isn’t complete yet, but in the wake of all the region’s…
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The Austin-based Rude Mechs (really Rude Mechanicals) is one of the most important things to happen to underground theater and performance in the state and really the country; since 1995…
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Out here, you could believe that any artwork could grow to unholy proportions, in a sort of 'Food of the Gods' mutation.
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Dallas-based Sam Wyly (along with his brother Charles) was a “maverick entrepreneur” worth more than a billion dollars until the Securities and Exchange Commission popped him for hiding stock trades…
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This story is getting weirder by the day. The artist Margarita Cabrera makes a public work for the city of El Paso according to plan, the city (or someone at the…
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It almost goes without saying that tonight is the night we get to watch Francisco Moreno’s (very) customized 1975 Datsun spin out in donuts inside a warehouse in Trinity Groves.…
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It’s one of those bad moments when you are alerted to the fact that someone you admire for his work believes something really, really stupid. I can either keep typing, which will eat…
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DFW: Here’s a great way to kick off your summer. An annual neighborhood art studio tour in Oak Cliff called the Visual Speedbump Art Tour started in 2000, and the 2015 tour…