Sarah Douglas

New York

Editor-in-Chief at ARTnews

Editor in Chief at ARTnews mag https://t.co/Ca9QDM51sD Did not play Kryptonian supervillain Ursa in Superman; that is the other Sarah Douglas. Opinions my own.

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Articles

Michael Werner to Open Second New York Gallery

1 week ago | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

With the art market having contracted significantly over the past year, it feels more likely to hear about a gallery closure than an expansion. But when Michael Werner gallery opens its first exhibition with Sanya Kantarovsky later this week, it will be in not one Upper East Side venue but two. The new space came about through a bit of a fluke. Werner has occupied a jewel box on the second floor of 4 East 77th Street since 2000.
A Look Inside the Past and Future of Saudi Arabia’s Art Scene, with the Founder of One of its Buzziest Galleries

3 weeks ago | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. It’s impossible to tell the story of the contemporary art scene in Saudi Arabia without talking about Athr Gallery.
Anonymous Was a Woman Symposium Reveals Financial Precarity for Women Artists

3 weeks ago | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

How are women artists faring these days? According to a new survey commissioned by Anonymous Was a Woman, the arts nonprofit known for its grant-making, and compiled by reporter-researchers Julia Halperin and Charlotte Burns in conjunction with SMU Data Arts (and exclusively released online by ARTnews), the answer is complex—and in many ways disheartening. But one thing is for sure: the art world is all ears.
What is the Difference Between an Art Dealer and a Gallerist?

1 month ago | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

You may have read the news the other day that Apple TV+ has just landed a new series called The Dealer, about the relationship between Jessica Chastain (the dealer) and, in the words of Deadline “her most gifted and unnerving artist, played by Adam Driver.” You may have also heard that filming has just wrapped on The Gallerist, a feature film starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega with a plot that Deadline encapsulates as being about “a desperate gallerist who conspires to sell a dead guy...
Former Art Basel Director to Teach Course on ‘Understanding Today’s Art World’

Jan 7, 2025 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

Since the early 2000s, there has been a significant growth in education around the art world, and specifically in the art market, with courses at universities and programs at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Marc Spiegler, the former director of Art Basel, the world’s most important fair for modern and contemporary art, chalks that up to the professionalization of the field.
Art in America’s Winter “Collaborations” Issue Features First-Rate Fashion Projects, Ugly AI Girls, Sculpture’s Maximalist Turn, and More

Nov 26, 2024 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas |Glenn Adamson |Emily Watlington |Chloe Wise

When we talk about sending an issue of a magazine to the printer, we often say we are putting it to bed. This is a time-worn phrase, an artifact of an analog era: the “bed” here refers to the printing press. I was thinking about this phrase because this issue goes to bed at the end of October. As it sleeps, if you will, the United States presidential election will be decided. When it wakes up in late November, in your—the reader’s—hands, our country will have elected a new leader.
Llyn Foulkes’s Art About American Rot Is More Eccentric—and Urgent—Than Ever

Oct 31, 2024 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

“Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in 1997. Now, in 2024, Foulkes, one of the original artists to show at LA’s storied Ferus gallery in the ’60s, would likely be the first to admit that it hasn’t. If anything, the world has, by most accounts, gotten worse.
Collectors Howard Rachofsky and Thomas Hartland-Mackie Launch The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation

Oct 29, 2024 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

Dallas-based mega-collector Howard Rachofsky, a former hedge fund manager and fixture of ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list, is teaming up with a collector some 40 years his junior, Thomas Hartland-Mackie, to start The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation, a non-profit arts foundation at The Warehouse, an 18,000 square foot exhibition space in a former storage facility that Rachofsky opened in 2012.
Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann Is Everywhere in Paris During Art Basel

Oct 16, 2024 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. During the first VIP day at Art Basel Paris, right at the 10 a.m. starting gun, lines snaked in front of the entrance to the Grand Palais. Visitors then began to flood into the venue under a clear blue sky that sent intense rays of sunlight down through its majestic, windowed ceiling.
Chicago's Rhona Hoffman to Give Up West Town Space, Change Model

Oct 14, 2024 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

It’s the end of an era in Chicago: Rhona Hoffman, who has been a gallerist in the city for nearly five decades, will close her space in Chicago’s West Town area and cease to operate as a traditional gallery beginning in May 2025. “My lease is going to be up,” Hoffman told ARTnews of her space of six years on West Chicago Avenue. “I celebrated this amazing, shocking age”—she recently turned 90—and the [Museum of Contemporary Art] gave me this big party celebrating my birthday.