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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’s Biography

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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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Observer’s 2026 October Art Fair Calendar (Updated)

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By Christa Terry Verified
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British artist Yinka Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture in Bronze (SG) at Frieze in London in 2024. Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images October is National Arts & Humanities Month, which launched thirty-plus years ago as National Arts Week to honor the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Observer’s 2026 October Art Fair Calendar (Updated)

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By Christa Terry Verified, curating Observer's Arts
| EIN News
British artist Yinka Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture in Bronze (SG) at Frieze in London in 2024. Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images October is National Arts & Humanities Month, which launched thirty-plus years ago as National Arts Week to honor the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

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By Christa Terry Verified
| Observer Verified
“Hockney Reproduction(s)” draws on more than 45 years of friendship between the artist and Bing McGilvray, who curated the show. Courtesy Bing McGilvray, used with the permission of Manship Artists Residency Those open to venturing a bit off the beaten path for an art experience will be well rewarded by heading up to Gloucester, Massachusetts, for a David Hockney show unlike most others.
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What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

I still love (and share) a story I wrote several years back on olfactory art, which is such an underappreciated form.

What's the best pitch you ever got?

It was for an interview with the last pearl diver in Qatar and had everything: the who, the what, the why and most importantly, the WHY NOW.

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

The New Yorker and The Baffler.