ARTnews is an American art magazine, based in New York City. It covers visual arts from ancienttocontemporary times. It is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. ARTnews has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors.
The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hydes Weekly Art News and was originally published eleven times a year.[2][3]
From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923), the magazine was published as American Art News.[4] From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as The Art News then ARTnews.[5]
In April 2014, Milton and Judith Esterow, the magazine's owners since 1972, sold the publication to Skate Capital Corp., a private asset-management firm owned by Sergey Skaterschikov.[8] It was later revealed that Skate Capital was acting on behalf of the Polish company Abbey House, which renamed itself ARTNEWS SA.[1]
Following this change in ownership the magazine merged with Art in America in June 2015, owned by Brant Publication's BMP Media Holdings, LLC.[9] In October 2015 the publishing cadence of ARTnews was reduced to quarterly.[9] In 2016, Brant Publications took full control of BMP.[10]
The ARTnews Top 200 list is released annually and contains the top individual art collectors from around the world 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, such as a breakdown of where the most top art collectors live (the United States).[20]
Collectors on the list are profiled with a brief biography focused on the type of art that they collect (contemporary, post war, modern, etc.) and includes their city or cities of residence, a photo, their source of wealth and the years they have been on the Top 200 list, as many collectors are on it for multiple years. The list released in September 2018 includes Leonard Lauder, Edythe and Eli Broad,[21] Rebecca and Warren Eisenberg, Alison and Peter Klein, Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman,[22] Tatsumi Sako, Sheri and Howard Schultz.[23] The full list is announced in both the print and online versions of the magazine.
^Homer, Thomas Johnston (1922). A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity. Boston, Massachusetts: Trustees of the Public Library. p. 20 – via books.google.com/books?id=2qVEAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA20&ots=rVDu3_6L2G&dq=artnews%201902&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=artnews%201902&f=false.
^Homer, Thomas Johnston (1922). A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity. Boston, Massachusetts: Trustees of the Public Library. p. 20 – via books.google.com/books?id=2qVEAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA20&ots=rVDu3_6L2G&dq=artnews%201902&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=artnews%201902&f=false.
