Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

arts & culture editor at @observer | ART STAN | pitch me: [email protected] (no TV/film reviews) | curious about EVERYTHING | all opinions mine and mine alone

Joined March 2023

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Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

Jan 11, 2024

Overwhelmed? Sad? Frustrated? I recommend you look at my dog for a while.

In a complex two-year process, advisory firm Gurr Johns guided the court-ordered consignment of museum masterworks, which culminated in a white-glove sale that set new records for Utamaro and Hokusai. observer.com/2025/11/auctio…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. The museum, founded in 2013 by billionaire Kazuo Okada, was compelled to sell the trove of masterworks to settle a $50 million legal bill owed by the collector.

Utamaro’s ‘Fukagawa in Snow’ Led Sotheby’s HK$688M Sale of Works from the Okada Museum of Art

Source: observer.com

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ARTnews

@artnews

12 h

Stephen Friedman Gallery will close its New York space at the end of February 2026, drawing a firm line under a two-year experiment that—depending on whom you ask—either represents prudent consolidation or yet another sign that the mid-to-upper gallery sector is buckling under…

artnews's tweet image. Stephen Friedman Gallery will close its New York space at the end of February 2026, drawing a firm line under a two-year experiment that—depending on whom you ask—either represents prudent consolidation or yet another sign that the mid-to-upper gallery sector is buckling under…

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

12 h

For the Venezuela-born, New York–based collector, acquiring #art has never been a passive act. #artcollector #collecting observer.com/2025/11/interv…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. For the Venezuela-born, New York–based collector, acquiring art has never been a passive act.

Meet the Collector: Ronald Harrar On Redefining Rules and Roles in a More Fluid Art World

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

12 h

These are the #books to reach for when winter’s bite makes staying in with a good book the only logical choice. observer.com/list/best-swea…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. These are the titles to reach for when winter’s bite makes staying in with a good book the only logical choice.

Get Cozy With Our Picks for the Best Sweater Weather Reads

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#WOMENSART

@womensart1

24 h

'Go Cats' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt #Monday

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

12 h

48 Hours of Art in Chicago: CXW, Museums and Monuments to Come observer.com/2025/10/48-hou…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Here, debates about whether art can change a city give way to evidence that it already does through cultural labor and shared experiences.

48 Hours of Art in Chicago: CXW, Museums and Monuments to Come

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

13 h

The #Artist as #Destroyer observer.com/2023/08/the-ar…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. An artist’s cache of works may grow year over year, creating a what-to-do-with-it problem that eventually becomes overwhelming.

The Artist as Destroyer

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

Anthony Kiendl On Unlocking MCA Denver’s Potential and Upending Art World Hierarchies observer.com/2025/11/interv…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “I have spent most of my career off-center and trying, in a modest way, to de-center the art world,” he told Observer. “I want to break down binaries such as superstar vs. unknown…

Anthony Kiendl On Unlocking MCA Denver’s Potential and Upending Art World Hierarchies

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City observer.com/2025/11/review…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Faced with the perplexity of our current social, political and ecological crises, the triennial proposes a new imaginary for the urban form.

The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

Lu Yang’s Convergence of Technology and Spirituality at Amant observer.com/2025/11/interv…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “As an individual facing today’s wars and geopolitical complexity—witnessing so much suffering—I often feel powerless and sad; but I refuse to remain there. I turn that feeling into a direction for…

Lu Yang’s Convergence of Technology and Spirituality at Amant

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

Shen Wei On “STILL / MOVING” and Finding Harmony Across Disciplines observer.com/2025/11/dance-…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. A new dual-venue exhibition traces nearly three decades of artistic evolution, from early experiments in gesture to meditative explorations of form and balance.

Shen Wei On “STILL / MOVING” and Finding Harmony Across Disciplines

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

Mean ol' algorithm observer.com/2025/11/interv…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. There is a direct line between lip fillers and the techno-apocalypse, and the artist draws that line with her latest body of work.

The Algorithm Thinks You’re Ugly: An Interview With Artist Gretchen Andrew

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

PIIIIIIIEEEEEE observer.com/2025/11/london…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Although the artist’s canvases are never peopled, there’s a sense that service has its beauty.

At the Courtauld, Wayne Thiebaud’s Poignant—if Long-Vanished—America

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

Inside the November Marquee Auctions: What the Market’s Biggest Week Really Revealed #art #money #artmarket #getrich observer.com/2025/11/novemb…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Megan Fox Kelly is a leading professional art advisor who has spent more than 25 years guiding collectors, attorneys, financial advisors and estates through the complexities of the Post-War and Con…

Inside the November Marquee Auctions: What the Market’s Biggest Week Really Revealed

Source: observer.com

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alain servais

@aservais1

14 h

Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready. The 77-year-old artist has spent her career observing others. Now, with the documentary “Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter,” she becomes the star. By @Thessaly nytimes.com/2025/11/23/sty…

aservais1's tweet card. The 77-year-old artist has spent her career observing others. Now, with the documentary “Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter,” she becomes the star.

Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready

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Observer

@observer

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The artist's three-part solo exhibition, "At the Excavation Site," at Crèvecœur traces how memory, light and mythic perception converge to shape our experience of reality. trib.al/0Cn8YbU

observer's tweet card. “My approach to the figure is a reflection of my perception in general—everything seems to be equivalent within rays of light, perhaps except meeting someone’s gaze,” he tells Observer.…

Tomasz Kowalski Digs Into the Psychic Archeology of Light in Paris

Source: observer.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

Redefining Immersive Media Art Beyond the Screen observer.com/2025/11/immers…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “My hope is to use technology not as a distraction but as an invitation, bringing audiences back into direct relationship with their surroundings and with one another,” d’strict d…

Redefining Immersive Media Art Beyond the Screen

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Art Spell

@ArtSpell212

14 h

Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong' by @MarcStrausBooks for @hyperallergic. In a pointed opinion piece, Straus fills in the gaps left by art-market reporters about the market’s downturns and rebounds. hyperallergic.com/1058944/art-ma…

ArtSpell212's tweet card. The worst of the current market decline is not the closure of major galleries. It is the dozens of younger galleries that have gone under in the past three and a half years.

Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong

Source: hyperallergic.com

Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

14 h

The Most Watched Auctioneer in the World Isn’t Who the Industry Expected observer.com/2025/11/interv…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “Representation matters, but skill matters too,” Phyllis Kao told Observer. “You need both. It cannot just be that there are more women on the rostrum. We have to be extraordinary. And …

The Most Watched Auctioneer in the World Isn’t Who the Industry Expected

Source: observer.com

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japecake

@japecake

Nov 23

If a good print of the movie on a regular screen "doesn't do it for you" but this overpriced gaudy cheeseball horseshit does, you may need to rethink your life. "Tickets generally start around $114 to $135 for basic seating."