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Christa Terry

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  • Senior Arts and Culture Editor, Observer
As seen in: Observer, MSN, Flipboard, EIN News, Scary Mommy, NewsBreak, SmarterTravel
Covers:  exhibition reviews, artist interviews, opera reviews and interviews, dance reviews and interviews
Doesn't Cover: movies, TV
senior arts & culture editor at @observer | pitch me: cterry@observer.com (no TV/film) | WHO'S WHO: observer.com/list/art-power-index-2025/

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Christa Terry is a writer-editor hybrid with a knack for turning out words as striking as the artworks they describe. She cut her teeth as an arts reporter in Queens before making the leap to marketing, where she spent years spinning stories on everything from cutting-edge tech to high-end living for nonprofits and brands like Pampers and TripAdvisor. Along the way, she authored a wedding planning book for Simon & Schuster, and through it all, art never stopped being her North Star. Now she’s b…

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Joshua Foulquier Built a Restaurant Around the Art His Mother Loved

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The salon at Chez Fifi, featuring an oil portrait of Puri (Fifi’s mother) between the windows and a Cleve Gray work over the striped banquette. Courtesy Chez Fifi The art at Chez Fifi, David and Joshua Foulquier’s bistro tucked into an Upper East Side townhouse was not curated in the conventional sense but rather inherited.
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How an Idea Becomes an Institution or Exhibition That Outlives Its Moment Original

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Delphine de Canecaude. © Droits réservés Museum Studio CEO Delphine de Canecaude has, in her own words, one of the best jobs in the world. Since taking the helm of the Paris-based cultural engineering firm in early 2023, she has guided a team of 400 specialists through more than its share of ambitious projects in 100 countries, from a reimagined Mona Lisa experience at the Grand Palais Immersif to a visitor experience for Gandhi’s Ashram in Ahmedabad.
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How an Idea Becomes an Institution or Exhibition That Outlives Its Moment

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6 hours ago The Reflecting Pool, the Smithsonian and prairie pothole wetland easements, in readers' eyes. When I read the Aug. 6 Metro article “Woman recounts ‘scary’ Reflecting Pool arrest,” I thought about my staunch Republican father. Consistent with his deeply held traditional American values, he taught me …
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