ARTnews

{{Short description|American art magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2011}} {{Use American English|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox magazine | title = ARTnews | logo = frameless|class=skin-invert | image_file = ARTnews website screenshot (2024-12-15).webp | image_alt = Screenshot of ARTnews website showing Zoé Whitley, with Editor Picks stories below it, the lower part is both a link to subscribe Art In America (ARTnews' sister publication) and a form to subscribe to the ARTnews Today Newsletter by email | image_caption = Screenshot of the website in December 2024 | publisher = | editor = Sarah Douglas | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | category = Visual arts | frequency = | format = | total_circulation = | circulation_year = | founder = James Clarence Hyde | founded = | firstdate = {{start date and age|1902}} (as ''Hydes Weekly Art News'') | company = Penske Media Corporation | country = United States | based = New York City, New York | language = English | website = {{URL|artnews.com}} | issn = 0004-3273 | oclc = 2392716 }}

'''''ARTnews''''' is an American online arts magazine based in New York City, formerly issued in print. Founded in 1902 and now the oldest art publication in the world, it covers visual arts from ancient to contemporary times. The publication includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, exhibition reviews, and profiles of artists and art collectors. Originally a print magazine issued at varying frequencies throughout its history, ''ARTnews'' transitioned to a digital publication and ceased its monthly and quarterly print issues in the 2010s and 2020s after a series of ownership changes that included merging with the magazine ''Art in America''.

==History and operations== ===1902–1936: Founding and early history=== thumb|First issue (week ending November 29, 1902)|353x353px The magazine was founded in New York City by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as '''''Hyde's Weekly Art News''''', a single–sheet publication issued weekly, covering news about artists, galleries, museums, and the policies impacting them.<ref name="NYT Glueck 1977">{{cite news |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |author1-link=Grace Glueck |title=Art People; What's Doing On Centre St. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/21/archives/new-jersey-weekly-art-people-whats-doing-on-centre-st.html |access-date=6 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=21 October 1977}}</ref> Hyde had previously worked as a culture reporter for ''The New York Herald''.<ref name="NYT 1979 AN expansion">{{cite news |last1=Dougherty |first1=Philip H. |title=Advertising; ARTnews Expansion Campaign |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/03/archives/advertising-artnews-expansion-campaign-bbd-o-to-handle-ge.html |access-date=7 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=3 July 1979}}</ref> In its early years, the magazine was primarily a trade publication for the art industry.<ref name="Litchfield CT 2005">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Nancy |title=What's News in Art? |url=https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/What-s-News-in-Art-16864524.php |access-date=7 December 2025 |work=Litchfield County Times |date=5 October 2005}}</ref> Hyde renamed the magazine '''''American Art News''''' in November 1904 and expanded it to include multiple pages and illustrations, publishing weekly during the art season between November and May.<ref name="NYT 1904">{{cite news |title=In And Out Of The Studios -- Art Note |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/11/13/archives/in-and-out-of-the-studios-art-note.html |url-access=limited |access-date=6 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |at=Pt. 4, p. 4 |date=13 November 1904}}</ref> The same year,<ref name="NYT 1921 sale">{{cite news |title=New Owners of American Art News |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/03/26/archives/new-owners-of-american-art-news.html? |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=26 March 1921 |page=6}}</ref> James Bliss Townsend, a former art critic at the ''Herald'', purchased the magazine from Hyde and became editor.<ref name="Herald">{{cite news |title='American Art News' Sold |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-ny-herald-american-art-n/186482135/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Herald |date=26 March 1921 |page=9}}</ref> As editor, Townsend had generally conservative tastes and disliked modern or avant-garde art, but he softened his stance toward the end of his time leading the magazine.<ref name="Brooklyn Eagle 1921">{{cite news |last1=Field |first1=Hamilton Easter |author1-link=Hamilton Easter Field |title=Academy The Independent and Other Shows; Sudden Death of James B. Townsend |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle-brooklyn-eagle-james-b-t/186482784/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |at=Sec. "Art and Music", p. 6 |date=13 March 1921}}</ref>

Townsend died suddenly in 1921 and the magazine was sold to Samuel W. Frankel, a former ''Herald'' staffer who had left the paper to start an art-focused advertising agency,<ref name="NYT 1935 Frankel obit">{{cite news |title=S. W. Frankel, 59, Publisher, Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/10/23/archives/s-w-frai-ikel-59-publisher-dead-had-been-owner-of-art-news-since.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=23 October 1935 |at=Sec. "Amusements", p. 21}}</ref> and Peyton Boswell, a critic who previously wrote for the ''Herald'' and other publications.<ref name="NYT 1921 sale" /> The magazine was renamed '''''The Art News''''' in 1923.<ref name="Oxford Reference">{{cite book |last1=Chilvers |first1=Ian |last2=Glaves-Smith |first2=John |title=A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art |date=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199239665 |edition=2nd |access-date=7 December 2025 |chapter=Art News |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199239665.001.0001/acref-9780199239665-e-157? |chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> Boswell left the publication in 1925.<ref name="NYT 1935 Frankel obit" /> The following year, the magazine began publishing ''The Art News Annual'', an annual special issue.<ref name="NYT WaPo buys Artnews" /> Frankel had a nervous breakdown and developed pneumonia that caused his death in 1935; his widow and son temporarily took charge of the magazine after his death.<ref name="NYT 1935 Frankel obit" />

===1936–1972: Frankfurter and Hess eras, ''Newsweek'' ownership=== Alfred M. Frankfurter purchased the magazine in 1936, becoming editor of the publication and president of its publisher Art Foundation Press.<ref name="NYT 1941 bimonthly">{{cite news |title=Art News Shifts Dates; Magazine Will Appear Twice a Month Under New Sponsor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/22/archives/art-news-shifts-dates-magazine-will-appear-twice-a-month-under-new.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=22 February 1941 |page=13}}</ref> Frankfurter's ownership stake in the company eventually totaled around 80 percent of the shares.<ref name="NYT WaPo buys Artnews" /> The magazine was renamed '''''ART News''''' in 1941,<ref name="Oxford Reference" /> the same year it switched from weekly to a twice monthly schedule.<ref name="NYT 1941 bimonthly" /> Frankfurter introduced a quarterly magazine titled ''Portfolio'' as a companion to ''The Art News Annual'', covering additional art forms beyond visual art.<ref name="NYT WaPo buys Artnews" />

Thomas B. Hess joined the magazine in 1946 as an editorial associate before becoming executive editor under Frankfurter in 1949.<ref name="NYT Hess obit">{{cite news |last1=Russell |first1=John |author1-link=John Russell (art critic) |title=Thomas Hess, Art Expert, Dies; Writer and Met Official Was 57 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/14/archives/thomas-hess-art-expert-dies-writer-and-met-official-was-57-an.html |access-date=7 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=14 July 1978}}</ref> Both Frankfurter and Hess focused the magazine on exhibition reviews and longer, critical essays on art. Hess in particular became known for championing abstract expressionism, action painting, and the New York School of artists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline.<ref name="NYT artnews sale 1972" /> ''ART News'' absorbed the publication ''Magazine of Art'' in 1953, which had prior been published by the American Federation of Arts.<ref>{{cite news |title=Art News Absorbs Magazine |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/05/03/83841750.html?pageNumber=53 |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=subscription |date=3 May 1953 |page=53 |id={{ProQuest|112575801}} }}</ref>

In 1962, Frankfurter sold Art Foundation Press to The Washington Post Company, which housed ''ART News'' and ''Portfolio'' in its magazine division under ''Newsweek''.<ref name="NYT WaPo buys Artnews">{{cite news |last1=Sibley |first1=John |title=Washington Post Buys Magazines; Newspaper Firm Acquires Art News and Portfolio |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/11/archives/washington-post-buys-magazines-newspaper-firm-acquires-art-news-and.html? |access-date=5 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=11 August 1962}}</ref> Frankfurter remained editor until his death in 1965 and was succeeded in the role by Hess.<ref name="NYT artnews sale 1972">{{cite news |last1=Shirey |first1=David L. |title=Art News Is Sold To 8–Man Group |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/12/archives/art-news-is-sold-to-8man-group-newsweek-divests-itself-of-monthly.html? |access-date=5 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=12 August 1972}}</ref> The magazine's name was shortened again in 1969 to ''ARTnews'', which remains its current title.<ref name="Oxford Reference" />

===1972–2014: Milton Esterow ownership=== In the early 1970s, the magazine was struggling financially and had a relatively small circulation around 33,000.<ref name="NYT 1979 AN expansion" /> Milton Esterow, a former art reporter for ''The New York Times'', led a group of investors to purchase ''ARTnews'' in 1972 from ''Newsweek'' under a new corporate entity, ARTnews Associates, with Esterow becoming the publisher and editor.<ref name="NYT artnews sale 1972" /> Having previously done extensive investigative reporting for the ''Times'' culminating in a book on art stolen by Nazis during World War II, Esterow sought to bring a more news-oriented journalistic approach to the magazine, expanding its coverage beyond art reviews and criticism to include art world news and reporting,<ref name="NYT Esterow obit">{{cite news |last1=Longman |first1=Jeré |title=Milton Esterow, Who Reported on Art Stolen in World War II, Dies at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/arts/milton-esterow-dead.html |access-date=5 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=13 October 2025}}</ref> similar to the original weekly publication.<ref name="NYT Kramer 1977" /> He told the ''Times'' that he believed the art world was "underreported" and needed more journalistic coverage, though he continued to publish art and exhibition reviews.<ref name="NYT artnews sale 1972" /> Writing five years after Esterow took control of the magazine, critic Hilton Kramer said "There has been an increase in news and a distinct lowering of the intellectual temperature."<ref name="NYT Kramer 1977">{{cite news |last1=Kramer |first1=Hilton |title=Art View; Reporting the Fashions–And The Ideas–For 75 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/04/archives/art-view-reporting-the-fashions-and-the-ideas-for-75-years.html? |access-date=6 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=4 December 1977}}</ref> ARTnews Associates launched ''Antiques World'' in 1978, a monthly sister magazine focused primarily on the antiques trade. By 1979, the circulation of ''ARTnews'' had risen to 68,000, moving ahead of its rival ''Art in America''.<ref name="NYT 1979 AN expansion" />

Canadian publisher Harlequin Enterprises invested in the company in 1979, becoming a minority owner and allowing the magazine to expand.<ref name="NYT 1979 AN expansion" /> ''ARTnews'' and ''Antiques World'' launched a publishing house in 1980 for books by art critics and industry professionals.<ref name="NYT 1980 publishing house">{{cite news |last1=Mitgang |first1=Herbert |title=Publishing: Old Ghosts and New Ideas at Scribner's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/30/archives/publishing-old-ghosts-and-new-ideas-at-scribners.html |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=30 May 1980 |page=C21}}</ref> Esterow's daughter Judith Esterow became associate publisher in 1986, having started at the magazine as a receptionist.<ref name="Litchfield CT 2005" /> By 1988, circulation had risen to 74,000.<ref name="NYT Girard 1988">{{cite news |last1=Gerard |first1=Jeremy |title=Art Magazines Compete for the Elegant Salon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/06/business/the-media-business-art-magazines-compete-for-the-elegant-salon.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=6 June 1988 |page=D10}}</ref> That year, ''The New York Times'' described the publication as "the elder statesman of American art magazines".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gerard |first1=Jeremy |title=The Media Business; Art Magazines Compete for the Elegant Salon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/06/business/the-media-business-art-magazines-compete-for-the-elegant-salon.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=6 June 1988 |at=Sec. D, p. 10}}</ref>

Milton Esterow introduced the Top 200 Collectors list in 1990, a special annual issue of the magazine that featured profiles of notable art collectors.<ref name="NYT Esterow obit" /> ''ARTnews'' partnered with the German company Prestel Publishing in 1991 to launch a new publishing house for artist and photographer monographs.<ref name="NYT Vogel 1991">{{cite news |last1=Vogel |first1=Carol |title=The Art Market |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/arts/the-art-market.html |url-access=limited |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=13 December 1991 |page=C32}}</ref> The downturn in the art market of the early 1990s put financial strain on the business as it relied on advertising income from galleries and other art market businesses. The magazine expanded its ads to broader consumer and luxury goods in the mid-90s, leading to increased revenue.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sloane |first1=Leonard |title=The Media Business: Advertising; For Art News, all things beautiful include more consumer ads on its pages |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/27/business/media-business-advertising-for-art-all-things-beautiful-include-more-consumer.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=27 March 1995 |at=Sec. D, p. 5}}</ref> Robin Cembalest was named editor of ''ARTnews'' in 1998.<ref name="Artnet Sutton Douglas new EIC" />

To commemorate the magazine's 100th anniversary in 2002, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington organized an exhibition of archival photographs from the magazine of artists and art world figures.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Van Gelder |first1=Lawrence |title=Arts Briefing |at=Sec. E, p. 2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/theater/arts-briefing.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=5 February 2003}}</ref> In 2005, the magazine had a print circulation of 85,000.<ref name="Litchfield CT 2005" />

===2014–2018: Abbey House Group ownership, ''Art in America'' merger, sale to Peter Brant=== Milton Esterow and his daughter sold the publication in April 2014 to Skate Capital, a private asset-management firm owned by Russian financier Sergey Skaterschikov,<ref name="NYT Artnews sold 2014">{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Patricia |title=ARTnews Sold to Private Company |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/artnews-sold-to-private-firm/ |access-date=6 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |department=ArtsBeat |date=8 April 2014}}</ref> for a reported $2 million.<ref name="Artnet Benocchio 2015 AN sale" /> The magazine had a print circulation of 80,000 at the time.<ref name="NYT Esterow obit" /> ''Artnet News'' first reported at the time of the sale that it was made on behalf of Polish company Abbey House Group SA, which also owned an auction house, commercial gallery, and Poland's oldest art magazine, ''Art & Business'';<ref name="Artnet Benocchio 2015 AN sale">{{cite web |last1=Genocchio |first1=Benjamin |title=ARTnews Magazine Sold, Price Tag $2 Million |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/artnews-magazine-sold-price-tag-2-million-8496 |website=Artnet News |access-date=6 December 2025 |date=3 April 2014}}</ref> Abbey House confirmed this in June 2014, saying that it had made the purchase through Skaterschikov's privately held firm to better negotiate the sale without being subject to the transparency requirements for large purchases by public companies. The company also announced that it was merging with the parent company of ''ARTnews'' to form ArtNews SA.<ref name="LA Times Ng 2014">{{Cite news |issn=0458-3035 |last=Ng |first=David |title=ARTnews Magazine Gets New Leadership, With a Twist |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=5 December 2025 |date=27 June 2014 |url= http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-artnews-magazine-new-leadership-20140627-story.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Sarah Douglas, former culture editor of ''The New York Observer'', was named the new editor-in-chief of the publication as part of the transition, replacing Cembalest.<ref name="Artnet Sutton Douglas new EIC">{{cite web |last1=Sutton |first1=Benjamin |title=Sarah Douglas Taking Over as ARTnews Editor-in-Chief |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sarah-douglas-taking-over-as-artnews-editor-in-chief-50356 |website=Artnet News |access-date=6 December 2025 |date=27 June 2014}}</ref>

In July 2015, businessman Peter Brant announced that he had acquired an ownership stake in ArtNews SA through a series of transactions that involved Brant selling several art magazine brands to the company before becoming its new majority owner, including ''Art in America'', ''Antiques'' magazine, and ''MODERN'' magazine. As part of the process, ''ARTnews'' and ''Art in America'' formally merged, with the latter's digital portfolio incorporated into the ''ARTnews'' website, though the two continued to publish separate print editions.<ref name="NYT AiA AN merge">{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Randy |title=Art in America Sold to ARTnews Owner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/business/media/art-in-america-sold-to-artnews-owner.html |access-date=6 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=29 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="Artnet Boucher 2015">{{cite web |last1=Boucher |first1=Brian |title='ARTnews' and 'Art in America' Merge as Print Market Continues to Decline |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artnews-art-america-merge-print-market-continues-decline-320844 |website=Artnet News |access-date=5 December 2025 |date=29 July 2015}}</ref> ''Artnet News'' reported that the magazine was losing more than $300,000 annually at the time of the sale.<ref name="Artnet Boucher 2015" /> ''ARTnews'' was reduced from monthly to quarterly print issues in October 2015.<ref name="Artnet AN quarterly">{{cite web |first=Sarah |last=Cascone |title='ARTnews' Magazine Ceases Monthly Print Publication After 113 Years |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artnews-quarterly-after-merger-339030|access-date=5 December 2025 |website=Artnet News |date=9 October 2015}}</ref> Brant completed additional transactions to transfer ArtNews SA's media properties to his company BMP Media Holdings in May 2016.<ref name="Artnet Brant finalizes purchase">{{cite web |last1=Boucher |first1=Brian |title=Peter Brant 'Assumes Full Control' of All His Magazines |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/peter-brant-assumes-control-magazines-506471 |website=Artnet News |access-date=6 December 2025 |date=27 May 2016}}</ref> The new BMP-controlled corporate entity overseeing ''ARTnews'' and its sister publications was named Art Media Holdings, while ArtNews SA declared bankruptcy as part of the transaction process.<ref name="Artnet ANSA bankrupt">{{cite web |last1=Boucher |first1=Brian |title=Artnews SA Files for Bankruptcy |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artnews-files-for-bankruptcy-519695 |website=Artnet News |access-date=6 December 2025 |date=16 June 2016}}</ref>

===2018–present: Penske ownership, end of print publication=== In 2018, Penske Media Corporation, the owner of ''Variety'' and ''Rolling Stone'' magazines, acquired Art Media Holdings from BMP, including ''ARTnews'', ''Art in America'', and its other art magazines.<ref name="Artnet 2018 Penske">{{cite web |last1=Schneider |first1=Tim |title='ARTnews' and 'Art in America' Are Bought by Penske Media, Owner of 'Rolling Stone' and 'Variety' |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artnews-penske-media-company-1395433 |website=Artnet News |access-date=6 December 2025 |date=13 November 2018}}</ref> ''ARTnews'' ceased publishing quarterly print issues in 2021, with a final print edition for December 2021–January 2022.<ref name="Getty library catalogue listing">{{cite web |title=ARTnews |url=https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay/GETTY_ALMA21121262930001551/GRI |website=Getty Research Institute Library |access-date=5 December 2025}}</ref> Penske also acquired ''Artforum'' in 2022, putting all three major American art magazines under the same ownership.<ref name="Artnet Casone 2022">{{cite web |last1=Cascone |first1=Sarah |title='Artforum' Has Been Acquired by Penske Media in a Major Shakeup for the Art-Publishing Industry |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artforum-has-been-acquired-by-penske-media-2224931 |website=Artnet News |access-date=10 December 2025 |date=7 December 2022}}</ref>

==Notable writers and articles== The magazine has featured writing and reporting from art critics, curators, historians, journalists, museum leaders, and artists including John Ashbery, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Scott Burton, Kenneth Clark, Arthur Danto, Elaine de Kooning, Willy Eisenhart, Robert Goodnough, Clement Greenberg, Thomas B. Hess, Aldous Huxley, Allan Kaprow, Marshall McLuhan, Robert Motherwell, Eleanor Munro, Linda Nochlin, Frank O'Hara, Fairfield Porter, Harold Rosenberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Schjeldahl, James Schuyler, Robert Storr, and Greg Tate.{{efn|These names are sourced from articles in ''The New York Times''<ref name="NYT Glueck 1977" /><ref name="NYT Kramer 1977" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |author1-link=Roberta Smith |title=Art View; When Art Became a Stage and Artists Actors |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/arts/art-view-when-art-became-a-stage-and-artists-actors.html |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=5 April 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pace |first1=Eric |title=James Schuyler, Poet, Dies at 67; Won the Pulitzer Prize for 1980 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/13/obituaries/james-schuyler-poet-dies-at-67-won-the-pulitzer-prize-for-1980.html |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=13 April 1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Willy Eisenhart, 48, Art Writer, Is Dead |at=Sec. 1, p. 9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/01/obituaries/willy-eisenhart-48-art-writer-is-dead.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=1 July 1995}}</ref> and ''The Washington Post''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Backas |first1=Margot |title=Art for Heart's Sake |work=The Washington Post |date=3 April 1988 |page=X11 |id={{ProQuest|306982510}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schudel |first1=Matt |title=Writer was champion, critic of hip-hop music and culture |work=The Washington Post |date=9 December 2021 |page=B5 |id={{ProQuest|2607937984}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |title=New York art critic brought passion and wit to his craft |work=The Washington Post |date=11 November 2022 |page=B6 |id={{ProQuest|2734849441}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pearson |first1=Richard |title=Scott Burton Dies at 50; Noted Furniture Designer |work=The Washington Post |date=2 January 1990 |page=B4 |id={{ProQuest|307241137}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Getlein |first1=Frank |title=The Poet In the Gallery |work=The Washington Post |date=8 October 1989 |page=X8 |id={{ProQuest|307228339}}}}</ref> }}

Harold Rosenberg published the influential essay "The American Action Painters" in the magazine in 1952,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boxer |first1=Sarah |title=Critic's Notebook; The Photos That Changed Pollock's Life |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/15/arts/critic-s-notebook-the-photos-that-changed-pollock-s-life.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=15 December 1998 |at=Sec. E, p. 1}}</ref> which helped define the style and critical discourse around action painting and artists like Jackson Pollock.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Russell |first1=John |author1-link=John Russell (art critic) |title=The Action Critic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/22/archives/the-action-critic-rosenberg.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=22 April 1979 |at=Sec. BR, p. 1}}</ref>

Linda Nochlin's essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", a revised and retitled version of a previous work for the anthology ''Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness'',<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Gornick|editor1-first=Vivian|editor-link=Vivian Gornick|editor2-last=Moran|editor2-first=Barbara|title=Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness|url=https://archive.org/details/womaninsexistsoc00gorn|url-access=registration|chapter=Why Are There No Great Women Artists?|last=Nochlin|first=Linda|location=New York|publisher=Basic Books|date=1971|isbn=978-0-465-09199-7 }}</ref> was published in the January 1971 issue of ''ARTnews''. The essay is generally considered required reading for the fields of feminist art history and feminist art theory inasmuch as it calls out the institutional barriers to the visual arts that women in the Western tradition historically faced; the essay has also served as an important impetus for the rediscovery of women artists, followed as it was by the exhibition ''Women Artists: 1550–1950''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Howe|first=Florence|date=Fall 1977|title=Editorial|journal=Women's Studies Newsletter|volume=5|issue=4|page=2|jstor=40042534}}</ref> Eleanor Munro called it "epochal",<ref>{{cite book|last=Munro|first=Eleanor C.|authorlink=Eleanor Munro|title=Originals: American Women Artists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hmexC6OiYusC&pg=PA531|year=2000|publisher=Da Capo|isbn=9780306809552|pages=7, 531}}</ref> and according to Miriam van Rijsingen "it is considered the genesis of feminist art history."<ref name="rijsingen">{{cite book|last=Rijsingen|first=Miriam van|editor=Rosemarie Buikema, Anneke Smeli|title=Women's Studies and Culture: A Feminist Introduction|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztJ0vUysZCQC&pg=PA94|year=1995|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781856493123|pages=94–105|chapter=How purple can it be?: Feminist art history}}</ref>

In 1984, the magazine published a story about Nazi-looted art that had become Austrian state property after World War II and been relegated to storage for several decades or donated to state museums.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGill |first1=Douglas C. |title=Austria to Auction Art Confiscated by Nazis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/07/arts/austria-to-auction-art-confiscated-by-nazis.html? |url-access=limited |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=7 December 1984 |page=C29}}</ref> The article included accounts from several officials and descendants of Jewish collectors who said the Austrian government had not done enough to locate the rightful heirs of the paintings or allow restitution, and it led the government to open the holdings to reporters and researchers.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGill |first1=Douglas C. |title=Treasures Seized by Nazis Are Coming Out of the Closet; Austria Will Start the Bidding on Confiscated Art |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/09/weekinreview/treasures-seized-by-nazis-are-coming-out-of-the-closet.html? |url-access=limited |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |at=Sec. 4, p. 22 |date=9 December 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schneider |first1=Pierre |title=Austria Opens Art Cache Confiscated by Nazis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/01/arts/austria-opens-art-cache-confiscated-by-nazis.html? |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=1 January 1985}}</ref> Similarly, the magazine published reporting by Russian correspondents in 1992 about art looted by the Soviet Union during and immediately following the war, including details about the government's newly formed special commission to study the state's holdings.<ref name="NYT Honan 1991">{{cite news |last1=Honan |first1=William H. |title=Soviets Reported to Hide Looted Art |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/30/arts/soviets-reported-to-hide-looted-art.html |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=30 March 1991 |at=Sec. 1, pp. 9, 13}}</ref> The authors of the article on Soviet plunder later expanded their research into a book.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Andrew |title=The Spoils of War |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/22/books/the-spoils-of-war.html |url-access=limited |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |at=Sec. 7, p. 40 |date=22 October 1995}}</ref>

==Awards== The magazine won the George Polk Award for Cultural Reporting in 1981 for its investigative reporting.<ref name="NYT Polk 1981">{{cite news |title=Polk Journalism Awards Are Disclosed by L.I.U. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/02/nyregion/polk-journalism-awards-are-disclosed-by-liu.html |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |date=2 March 1981 |page=B5 }}</ref> The same year, it won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence among publications with a circulation less than 100,000.<ref name="NYT Nat Mag Award 1981">{{cite news |last1=Bird |first1=David |title=Reader's Digest Receives Award for Public Service |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/22/nyregion/reader-s-digest-receives-award-for-public-service.html |url-access=limited |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=22 April 1981}}</ref> ''ARTnews'' won the Polk Award for Cultural Reporting again in 1992 for investigative reporting into art looted by the Soviet Union and kept by the state.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Howe |first1=Marvine |title=2 Correspondents for Times Among Polk Award Winners |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/03/nyregion/2-correspondents-for-times-among-polk-award-winners.html |url-access=limited |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=3 March 1992}}</ref>

==''ARTnews'' Top 200 Collectors== Introduced in 1990 by then-owner Milton Esterow,<ref name="NYT Esterow obit" /> the ''ARTnews'' Top 200 Collectors list is published in an annual special issue and ranks art collectors from around the world on their overall influence in the art world and market, based on interviews with collectors, curators, dealers, auction houses, and museums. Those on the list are also surveyed, and their responses are used to inform trends and provide data, including a breakdown of where the most top art collectors live (historically the United States).<ref>{{Cite web |first=Suchita |last=Mandavilli |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/11/where-do-the-worlds-top-art-collectors-live/|title=Where Do the World's Top Art Collectors Live? |website=Foreign Policy |date=11 July 2013 |access-date=10 December 2025 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210621014648/https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/11/where-do-the-worlds-top-art-collectors-live/ |archive-date=21 June 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Collectors on the list are profiled with a brief biography and interviewed about their views on collecting and the art market over the previous year. The full list is published online and in a special annual print issue.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Durón |first1=Maximilíano |title=What Is the Future of Collecting?: An Introduction to the 2025 Edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors List |url=https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/top-200-collectors-list-2025-introduction-1234753566/ |website=ARTnews |access-date=11 December 2025 |date=22 October 2025}}</ref> As of 2025, the annual Top 200 Collectors issue is the only ''ARTnews''-branded print product still published by the magazine.

==See also== {{Portal|Journalism|Visual arts}} * List of art magazines * List of United States magazines

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==External links== * {{Official website|artnews.com}}

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