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About Art in America

Since 1913, Art in America has published groundbreaking critical insights about contemporary art and culture. Each quarterly issue features exhibition reviews, a collectible artist print, interviews with leading artists, and in-depth essays by individuals at the forefront of their fields. Between its flagship print edition and growing digital presence, Art in America today reaches both influential art world insiders and a broad audience invested in understanding pivotal cultural trends. 

About Our Team

Sarah Douglas, Editor in Chief
Sarah was appointed editor-in-chief of ARTnews in July 2014. She has been an art journalist and editor for numerous publications for 20 years, beginning with four years running the US editorial office of the Art Newspaper, after a stint writing exhibition reviews and previews for the New York Times online. Before ARTnews, she was culture editor at the New York Observer, and she launched a visual art site called Gallerist. Prior to that, she spent six years as a staff writer at Art+Auction magazine and its website, Artinfo.com. Sarah has contributed to the New York Times, New York magazine, the Economist, Flash Art, and the National, among other publications, writing about art, the art market, and the art world. She has also participated in and led numerous panel discussions on topics ranging from art collectors’ estate planning to museum funding. Douglas has been interviewed about the art market on the NPR programs “Marketplace” and “Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.” Books about the art world and the art market that cite her work include Don Thompson’s $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Michael Shnayerson’s Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art. In 2013 Sarah received ArtTable’s New Leadership award. She is not to be confused with the English actress Sarah Douglas who played the Kryptonian supervillian Ursa in Superman and Superman II. She tweets at @SarahLDouglas

 

Erica Lubow Necarsulmer, Publisher
Erica is the publisher of ARTnews and Art in America. A native New Yorker, her first appearance on the New York art scene was by means of “Learning Through Art,” a program for second- to sixth-grade students in which her work was shown at the Guggenheim Museum. She pursued this interest at Denison University, from which she graduated with a minor in studio art and a major in psychology. In 2005, after working at the New York Sun newspaper in the Travel and Arts sections, she started at ARTnews, owned at the time by Milton Esterow. Since moving to ARTnews, Erica has witnessed the business go from focusing purely on print to the start of ARTnews.com, and the daily newsletters Breakfast with ARTnews and ARTnews Today, social media sponsorships, engaging sponsored content options, webinars, podcasts, and live media. In 2015, when ARTnews came together with Art in America under the ownership of Peter M. Brant, Erica assumed the position of senior account manager; she was named publisher of ARTnews in 2017. Erica works closely with ARTnews editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas, coordinating the work of editorial and business teams to safeguard the publication’s integrity and promote its award-winning reporting. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and twin daughter and son.

 

Francesca Aton, Associate Digital Editor
Francesca Aton is an associate digital editor at ARTnews and Art in America. She joined Art Media in 2017 as an editorial intern, after earning a dual Bachelor of Arts in art history and visual arts from Fordham University. Aton served previously as exhibitions associate at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit. She has spoken at the French Embassy in New York on the cultural impacts of bilingualism, and was a site assistant for the Apolline Project in southern Italy, unearthing, identifying, and analyzing artifacts encased during the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. While studying abroad in Rome, she assisted Fordham University professor Jo Anna Isaak with her research and teaching; Aton also served as a guest critic for University of New Orleans professor Anna Mecugni’s art criticism class in 2021. For tips and queries, you can reach her at faton@artnews.com

Andy Battaglia, Executive Editor
Andy is executive editor of ARTnews and Art in America. Prior to joining the magazines in 2016, he was a freelance writer for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Frieze, the Paris Review, New York, the Guardian, the National, Bookforum, Salon, and the Washington Post. From 2001 to 2010, he was an editor and staff writer for the Onion A.V. Club. Among his many interests are music and sound, which he has written about extensively for the Wire, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, Resident Advisor, and other publications. He recently contributed essays to the book Kevin Beasley: A View of a Landscape and the book and digital album Unsound: Intermission. His favorite writings for ARTnews and Art in America include profiles of Fred Moten, Harmony Korine, Matthew Barney, and Michael Stipe, as well as features on James Turrell’s Roden Crater, the interdisciplinary ocean-going art enterprise TBA21–Academy, sales of rare whiskey at auction, and conceptual complexities surrounding the Panza Collection. He studied journalism and art history at the University of Georgia. 

 

Kat Brown, Senior Designer
Kat Brown is a senior designer for ARTnews and Art in America. Since joining Art Media in 2022, she has played a pivotal role in shaping the visual direction of the publications. Previously, Brown spent over five years as the art director for Cultured Magazine, where she was instrumental in orchestrating dynamic photoshoots, crafting feature layouts, and driving the publication’s digital presence. A graduate of Florida State University, Brown earned her B.F.A. with a focus on harnessing visual storytelling to elevate the arts and culture sector.

Daniel Cassady, Reporter
Daniel is a journalist covering business practices, money, and machinations in the art world. He has too many magazine subscriptions and a one-handed backhand. He holds a BA in journalism from the City University of New York, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, Forbes, and the Art Newspaper. He welcomes good conversation and heated debates. Contact him at dcassady@artnews.com, @danielcassady on Twitter, and @cassadyphotos on Instagram.

 

Anne Doran, eCommerce Editor
Anne Doran has written for publications including Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Mousse, Collector Daily, and Time Out New York. The Dream Colony: A Life in Art, based on her interviews with legendary curator Walter Hopps and edited by New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, was published in 2017 by Bloomsbury. From 1996 to 2004, Anne was an editor at the art and literary quarterly Grand Street; between 2005 and 2006 she was a senior editor at ARTnews. After seven years as publications editor for the contemporary art gallery Feature Inc, she returned to ARTnews as an editor. An exhibiting artist since 1981, Anne has showed her artwork in the US at 303 Gallery, PS1, Hallwalls, Artists Space, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and in Europe at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among other venues. Her most recent solo exhibition was in 2022 at March gallery in New York.

Maximilíano Durón, Senior Editor
Maximilíano Durón is a queer, Chicanx journalist and critic covering contemporary art. His writing focuses on the work of artists of color, specifically Latinx/Chicanx artists, queer artists, and their intersections, as well as curators, collectors, and scholars whose work has transformed the art world. He has been at ARTnews since 2014 and is currently senior editor, managing the publication’s art fair and Top 200 Collectors coverage. He is a member of the jury of ARTnews Awards. Durón is a winner of the 2023 Rabkin Prize for visual art journalists and a founding member of Critical Minded, an initiative that looks to support the work of a diverse intergenerational group of cultural critics of color. He received his undergraduate degree from NYU in journalism and art history. He can be reached at mduron@artnews.com

Christopher Garcia-Valle, Multimedia Editor
Christopher Garcia Valle is the Multimedia Editor at ARTnews and Art in America. He has produced video and editorial work for Art in America, ARTnews, Artforum, Surface, The Shed, and other cultural institutions, with notable projects featuring artists such as Lotus L. Kang, Jeffrey Gibson, Arlene Shechet, and Shahzia Sikander. Before moving to New York, he co-ran Soft Space, a DIY new media gallery in Portland, Oregon.

Follow his work on Instagram @christophergarciavalle

 

Alex Greenberg, Senior Editor
Alex is a senior editor at ARTnews, having started there as an editorial assistant in 2015. He has covered topics ranging from protests against a former Whitney Museum vice chair in 2018 and 2019 to the controversy involving charges of anti-Semitism and harassment in Documenta 15 in 2022. In his criticism, Greenberger has addressed body horror, the history of video art, the legacy of Pablo Picasso, and the work of artists Wangechi Mutu, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marlene Dumas, and innumerable others. His articles have also appeared in Artspace and the Village Voice, and in gallery catalogs. He graduated from New York University with a BA in art history and cinema studies. Reach him at agreenberger@artnews.com

 

Karen K. Ho, Senior Writer
Karen is a senior writer at ARTnews, where she covers art crime and business topics that deal with licensing, insurance, operations, and the like. Her reporting and analysis on business, culture, and the media industry have appeared in publications such as Quartz, TIME, GQ, Glamour, Men’s Health, the Cut, Vox, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto (BA) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MA Business). Contact her at kho@artnews.com

 

Harrison Jacobs, Digital Executive Editor

 

Daniela A. Hritcu, Design Director
Daniela Hritcu is a design director with a deep background in editorial, branding, and marketing. Since 2019, she has led design and visual identity for ARTnews and Art in America at Art Media, where she began as a freelancer hired to redesign both titles. A native of Romania, Daniela holds a BFA in graphic design from FIT and previously worked as a rare books preservation librarian at the National Library of Romania. Her career spans on-set art direction, editorial design, advertising, and creative direction for major publishers like Condé Nast, Time Inc., Hearst, and WW Publishing. She has contributed to titles including W, Details, Bon Appétit, and Food Network Magazine, and is a recipient of awards from MIN and SPD. Daniela lives in Beacon, NY, though she dreams of a Caribbean escape. You can follow her on Instagram at @danielahritcu.

Leigh Anne Miller, Managing Editor
Leigh Anne is managing editor at ARTnews and Art in America. She joined A.i.A. in 2004 as editorial assistant, working with the magazine’s longtime editor-in-chief, Elizabeth C. Baker. Leigh Anne now oversees both brands’ visual material, collaborating with photographers, museums, galleries, artists’ studios, estates, and archives to source images for print and online content. Since 2015 she has interviewed dozens of artists, among them Carmen Herrera, Kerry James Marshall, Lynda Benglis, and Laurie Simmons, for the magazine’s monthly “Backstory” column—an archival photo accompanied by the artists’ memories, in their own words. For several years she interviewed curators, museum directors, writers, filmmakers, and architects (RoseLee Goldberg, Maggie Nelson, Annabelle Selldorf, Cheech Marin, and many others) about their current interests for “Sightlines.” More recently, she has spearheaded “Hands On,” a back-page Q&A with art handlers, conservators, framers, tech specialists, exhibition designers, and others working behind the scenes in the art world. Leigh Anne grew up in Pittsburgh and has a BA in art history and Italian from Washington University in St. Louis. She recently returned from a weeklong trip to Buenos Aires where she saw three separate Julio Le Parc exhibitions: at the Teatro Colón, Centro Cultural Kirchner, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. You can follow her dog on Instagram @mohawksmoproblems 

 

George Nelson, Reporter

Nancy E. Sherman, Copy Chief
Nancy copyedits both ARTnews and Art in America. She worked with books and magazines from the very first … shelving and checking them out to patrons in libraries at her high school, at the Graduate Research Library at UCLA, and at the Cahuenga branch of the LA Public Library. After earning a degree in Japanese at UCLA, she worked for the Lt. Governor of California, the California Optometric Association, and at a general dental practice. In a second life, on the East Coast, Nancy took jobs in nonprofits and corporations, including a stint at CBS (60 Minutes). Her editing career began with proofreading at ad agencies, then at Sterling Publishing, where she moved in mere months from temporary proofreader to copy editor to developmental and project editor of nonfiction books. In that post, she led some two dozen titles from manuscript to bound pages before Barnes & Noble acquired the firm. She chose thereafter to work exclusively freelance, and, for 10 years, had steady work at magazines including Discover, Fitness, Glamour, Interview, Vanity Fair, Real Simple, Field & Stream, Self, NYU Physician, Psychology Today, Parade, Martha Stewart Whole Living, and Laptop; other clients were the Earth Institute and Teachers College at Columbia University, HarperCollins, Acanthus Press, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Girl Scouts. Nancy worked at Art+Auction and Modern Painters before joining ARTnews and Art in America in 2016.

Emily Watlington, Senior Editor
Emily is a senior editor at Art in America, which she joined in 2019. Her writing often focuses on disability culture, feminist art, and those places where art and science meet. Before moving to New York, she lived in Berlin on a Fulbright Journalism Fellowship. She holds a master’s degree in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture and art from MIT, and a BFA from MassArt. In 2020 she received the Theorist Award from C/O Berlin, and in 2018, the Vera List Writing Prize in the Visual Arts. She has published widely in magazines (such as Artforum and the Baffler), journals (such as Camera Obscura and Future Anterior), and exhibition catalogs (such as Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 and Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My). Follow her on Twitter at @KeysWalletPh0ne and Instagram at @keys_wallet_phone

Reginald Freeman, Account Manager
Reginald Freeman is an account manager at ARTnews and Art in America. He joined Art Media in Spring of 2024. Prior to this, he served in an account management role in fine art storage and logistics. He had the opportunity to collaborate, work alongside, and foster relationships with some amazing gallerists, curators, museum key stakeholders, and private collectors. He will continue to foster and strengthen these relationships within the art community to help share their individual and collective stories with the world. He can be reached at rfreeman@artnews.com

Arthur Peña, Account Manager
With a myriad of viewpoints into the art world, Arthur continues to foster and cultivate strong relationships across the art industry. Having previously taught art at the university level, he has also worked for a renowned sculptor, curated exhibitions, contributed editorial to multiple outlets, and was an integral team member for one of New York’s premiere art fairs. As an exhibiting artist himself, he is entrenched with galleries within NYC and throughout the country. You can find him chatting at Tribeca openings or catching vibes at Washington Square Park.