Sarah Douglas

1 month ago | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas

The outset of the second Trump administration—we were just 12 weeks in when this issue went to press—has been tumultuous and frightening, with DOGE having decimated one federal agency after another.

1 month 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

Mar 27, 2025 | 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...