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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.

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. 

Harrison Jacobs,  Executive Digital Editor

Harrison Jacobs joined ARTnews and Art in America as executive digital editor in 2022. As a reporter, editor, and photojournalist, he has covered national news, politics, culture, technology, and global issues for outlets including NPR, Vice News, the Washington Post, the Markup, and the Verge. He previously served as Business Insider’s first international correspondent, reporting on global technology, international affairs, and culture in China, Nigeria, Israel/Palestine, Kenya, Korea, and elsewhere. He served as the publication’s deputy news editor, overseeing editorial teams covering breaking news, politics, and foreign affairs. His reporting has covered the deleterious effects of ride-hailing apps on centuries-old traditions in Bali, the massive grassroots campaign to elect a groundbreaking progressive district attorney in Philadelphia, and an activist battle to shut down Baltimore’s polluting trash incinerator, which disproportionately affected communities of color. He is a graduate of Tufts University (BA) and the London School of Economics (MS). He can be reached at HJacobs@artnews.com.

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 

Alex Greenberg, Deputy Editor
Alex is a deputy 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

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.

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.

Anne Doran, 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.

Daniel Cassady, Art Business 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.

Brian Boucher, Senior Reporter

Brian Boucher joined ARTnews in 2025. After studying art history at Vassar College and Williams College, he began his career in museum education at the American Federation of Arts and the Frick Collection. He later held several editorial roles at Art in America, ultimately serving as its website editor. There, he published features on artists including Rachel Harrison, Ken Price, and Michael Rakowitz, along with numerous exhibition reviews and online features, and broke major news, including the report that the Armory Show art fair was up for sale. He later served as a senior writer for Artnet News, traveling widely to report on museum exhibitions and art fairs, from Dubai to Hong Kong and Los Angeles to Mexico City. As a freelancer, he has contributed to the New York Times (including reporting on the sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts), New York magazine (with a feature on a Craigslist roommate who was not what he seemed), Garage, Frieze, Playboy, and CNN. He can be reached at bboucher@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.

Emily Watlington, Deputy Editor, Art in America

Emily Watlington is an critic whose writing often focuses on disability culture, as well as those places where art and science meet. Her work for the magazine includes a review of a Judy Chicago retrospective, a critique of Forensic Architecture, and special issues on bio art and on disability culture. Her first book, Fables & Forensics, is out in the fall of 2025 from Floating Opera Press.

Prior to working for Art in America, she held curatorial positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and at the MassArt Art Museum. She is a Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from MIT in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture and art. Her writing has received several prizes including the Rabkin Prize (2024), C/O Berlin’s Theorist Award (2020), and the Vera List Writing Prize for Visual Art (2018); it also been translated into many languages including Arabic, Croatian, German, French, and Japanese. When she is able to step away from New York, where her life revolves around reading, writing, and seeing art, she is curious about surfing, foraging mushrooms, deserts, and animal liberation.

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.