Christopher Mosley is a journalist, writer, and editor who has lived in Los Angeles, Austin, and Dallas. You can find his most recent work at NBC News, The Dallas Morning News, and The Tulsa Voice. Past work includes being the full-time digital editor at FD Magazine and online arts editor at D Magazine. He also programs and coordinates events and has done so for a number of entertainment venues and institutions.
This is in addition to writing, curating, speechwriting, and other work for various non-profits, museums, technology companies, and health care systems.
He has also written essays for Hardly Art/Sub Pop Records, Self Sabotage Records, Driftless Recordings, and the art department of Southern Methodist University.
Mosley has given numerous talks and lectures at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Twitter: @chrisfmosley
Instagram: @chrismosley
Email: christopherjmosley@gmail.com
Recent
Guest spot: Discussing the mask issue on Let’s Go There with Shira & Ryan, a radio show out of Los Angeles
On masks and politics for NBC News/THINK
Was Larry David Right About Everything? — (For NBC News/THINK)
Is art worth dying for? What a series of pop star deaths say about authenticity (NBC News)
500X to close after 41 years in Exposition Park (D Magazine)
David Jeremiah’s “Things Done Changed” at the Public Trust. (Dallas Morning News)
In Memoriam: Bill Wisener of Bill’s Records (D Magazine)
New Business from the Owners of Double Wide/Single Wide: Thunderbird Station (D Magazine)
Concert Review: Negative Gemini and Kero Kero Bonito (D Magazine)
CentralTrak is Dead; Long Live CentralTrak
Tornado Damage Makes Dallas’ Fabric Alley Nearly Inaccessible (D Magazine)
El Centro College Holds First Curated Art Show Since Deadly 2016 (Dallas Morning News)
Charli XCX and Tommy Genesis at the House of Blues Dallas (D Magazine)
Mick Rock—photographer of Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett, and Lou Reed etc.—at the Public Trust
Taylor Swift fans vs. Tool fans (NBC News/Think)
Cydonia Gallery teams up with Mercado369 in Oak Cliff (Dallas Morning News)
RIP Transit Bicycle Co. Featuring the Bralettes, Sub-Sahara, and more (D Magazine)
Drake and the lack of plurality in the NBA (NBC News)
Dispatch from a protest of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to Dallas (D Magazine)
On BTS, K-pop, North Korean pop, and the 2019 Billboard Music Awards (NBC News)
An evening with “The Story Collider: Stories about Science” at The Wild Detectives (The Dallas Morning News)
Three off-the-beaten path art galleries in Dallas: ex ovo, Cydonia (at the Safe Room at the Texas Theatre), and Something Else (The Dallas Morning News)
Vignette Art Fair and curator Leslie Moody Castro (The Dallas Morning News)
Catalogue Entry for Xxavier Carter’s Rumor Has It at SMU’s Pollock Gallery (Southern Methodist University)
A People’s History of Good Records featuring Peaches, The Rock*A*Teens etc. (D Magazine)
A rundown of the Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring Maroon 5 for NBC News (NBC News/Think)
A review of both evenings of Lights All Night featuring Gucci Mane, Diplo, Oliver Tree and more (D Magazine)
An overview of a group show—featuring Crystal Z. Campbell, Heyd Fontenot and more—at Living Arts of Tulsa for the Tulsa Voice (The Tulsa Voice)
On Shelter Serra and Billie Eilish at the Public Trust (The Dallas Morning News)
Interviews
Vagabon (Museum Members Magazine)
Art
Temple Shipley Becomes Director of Galerie Frank Elbaz’s Dallas Outpost (D Magazine)
On Texas Biennial Expanding to bordering regions (NBC News)
Internet-focused art gallery relocates to Pasadena from Dallas (Dallas Morning News)
Music
Zombie Formalism in the North Texas Music Scene (D Magazine)
Opening acts try but can’t compete with the many personas of Nicki Minaj (The Dallas Morning News)
Immaturity outweighs musicality for Mac DeMarco at House of Blues (Dallas Morning News)
A Hard Look Back at South by Southwest 2014 (D Magazine)
Archive photos show off musical memories of Reunion Arena (Dallas Morning News)
Politics
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to Dallas draws protesters (D Magazine)
Coverage of bipartisan Latino Lawmakers Slamming Texas’ SB4 Immigration Law (NBC News)
Miscellaneous / Opinion
On the commercials of Super Bowl 2017 (Dallas Morning News)
On grocery stores in Los Angeles (Dallas Morning News)
Articles about Chris Mosley
On music programming for one year at a museum
A year-end best-of feature along with Margaret Cho, Scarface, and others
Voyage: Meet Christopher Mosley
chrismosley 