Christa Terry, Arts Editor

@CTerryObserver

arts editor at @observer | TOTAL 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.

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Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · 11 h

MacDowell’s Chiwoniso Kaitano On Why America Can’t Afford to Underfund the Arts observer.com/2025/07/interv…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “Support for the arts without constraint on free expression is smart economic and cultural policy—and a sign of a strong democracy.”

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · 11 h

The Hottest Summer Reads of 2025 observer.com/2025/07/new-fi…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. These titles vary in spice level but deliver romance that lingers long after the last page.

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Dynamic and Genre-Defying, ‘Lady White Snake’ Gives a Classic Myth a Contemporary Bite observer.com/2025/07/ballet…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Directed by Tan YuanYuan, the production brings an amalgamation of classical Chinese dance, Western ballet and martial arts to Lincoln Center.

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‘Four Letters of Love’ Delivers a Long, Damp Script to Nowhere observer.com/2025/07/four-l…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. The director is Polly Steele, a lady with an unquenchable passion for long, lingering shots of wet beaches and dry emotions.

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · 11 h

Michael Govan On Building a Museum for the 21st Century observer.com/2025/07/art-in…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “We want to showcase and help people feel the splendor and power of the interrelationships between many cultures, especially in a place like Los Angeles,” Govan told Observer.

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · 11 h

Senators Target the Art Market With New Anti-Money Laundering Rules observer.com/2025/07/fetter…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “Art should be for art-lovers, not terrorists and criminals,” said Senator John Fetterman in a statement.

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Curator Eleanor Clayton On the Race to Keep a National Treasure in Britain observer.com/2025/07/arts-i…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Barbara Hepworth’s 1943 sculpture embodies her transition from prewar geometric abstraction to a more lyrical engagement with landscape.

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Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · 11 h

One Fine Show: ‘Jenny Saville, The Anatomy of Painting’ at London’s National Portrait Gallery observer.com/2025/07/exhibi…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Here, the artist’s work challenges viewers to rethink the boundaries between beauty, distortion and realism.

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‘Cézanne au Jas de Bouffan’ at the Musée Granet Brings the Artist Home to Aix observer.com/2025/07/art-ce…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Jas de Bouffan, the artist’s family estate and now a museum, is another must-visit destination for those seeking to understand the origins of his radical vision.

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · 11 h

The Art World Confronts a New Era of Censorship in the U.S. observer.com/2025/07/amy-sh…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “While no single person is to blame, it’s clear that institutional fear—shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives—played a role,” artist Amy Sherald wrote of…

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

When I was in my 20s, everyone - even the young lawyers who were definitely earning more than the rest of us - had roommates.

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Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

‘Jenny Saville, The Anatomy of Painting’ at London’s National Portrait Gallery observer.com/2025/07/exhibi…

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

Fun fact: many chunky old people were once hot, fit young people.

NNatali Simmonds@NJSimmondsbooks · Jul 25

I had no idea Pavarotti trained to be a goalkeeper before singing opera and used to look like this 👀

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Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

"Just because fashion is performative doesn’t mean it can’t have real power." observer.com/2018/02/dario-…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. ‘She’s a study in the art of living, of doing things on your own time and surrounding yourself with beauty,’ photographer Calmese said of his muse.

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A new bipartisan bill could bring U.S. art market regulations in line with the those of the E.U., U.K., and Switzerland. trib.al/4MtKnu5

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Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

The Case for Installing Temporary Public Art observer.com/2025/02/tempor…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. “Everything deteriorates,” former Public Art Fund director Tom Eccles told Observer. “The question is, what do you want to retain?”

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

At Kunstmuseum Basel, Medardo Rosso’s Radical Dismantling of Form observer.com/2025/07/medard…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Placing process before final form, the artist radically redefined traditional notions of sculpture at the end of the 19th Century.

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

I really like this quote: “Art should be for art-lovers, not terrorists and criminals.” YEAAAH

CChrista Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

Senators Target the Art Market With New Anti-Money Laundering Rules observer.com/2025/07/fetter…

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

Senators Target the Art Market With New Anti-Money Laundering Rules observer.com/2025/07/fetter…

Christa Terry, Arts Editor@CTerryObserver · Jul 25

Ali Cherri Honors Life, Loss and Defiance in ‘How I Am Monument’ observer.com/2025/07/exhibi…

CTerryObserver's tweet card. Wide-ranging works illustrate the artist’s range and capture the exhibition’s parable: what is destined to live will die, as what dies may rise again.