Howdy, y’all.

Me at the Royal Academy, London during an exhibition install. The painting to my left is by George Condo.

Christina Rees here. Yes: if you pay to subscribe to my newsletter, I do get paid.

I’m the former longtime editor-in-chief of a non-profit magazine that covers visual art across Texas. (I was fired in October. One day after publishing a particular op-ed.) I’m a winner of the national $50,000 Rabkin Prize for arts writing (that same year alongside Carolina Miranda of The Los Angeles Times and Jason Farago of The New York Times), and I’m a fifth-generation Texan, which may explain my robust bullshit detector. After stints in NYC and abroad in the early aughts, I returned home. I currently live in Houston. (Houston is great. North Texas is home-home.)

Some of you know me from my time as a curator in Fort Worth, or as a dealer-gallerist in Dallas. Before that, I was a full-time journalist and editor at some legacy journals in DFW. I’ll be writing here on Substack for awhile, in a sort of gloves-off manner I avoided while employed at a non-profit publication.

Like a lot of you, I have some thoughts, questions, and serious reservations about the direction that art, culture, free speech, and censorship have taken in recent years.

I’m happy to be writing this from the Lone Star state. It is certainly a place to keep an eye on.

I’m on twitter (barely, and just now), here:

https://twitter.com/ReesTexas

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Disillusioned Texas art critic. Digs the First Amendment.