Sarah Douglas
Editor-in-Chief
- Organisation
- ARTnews
- Biography
- As Editor-in-Chief of ARTnews and Art in America, the cornerstone magazines of PMC’s Art Media division, Sarah oversees editorial strategy across the division, maintaining the authority and integrity of two brands with a combined 200-year history and moving those brands into the future, with a particular emphasis on the digital side of the business. At PMC, Sarah has steered a relaunch of ARTnews’s celebrated annual Top 200 Collectors issue, as well as a relaunch of the ARTnews and Art in America website. Since starting at ARTnews in 2014, Sarah has overseen a tripling of both its web traffic and its social media numbers. Sarah has spent her career working across print and digital. She started as a freelancer, writing reviews and previews for the New York Times’s website, and went on to spend four years as U.S. editor of The Art Newspaper, which is based in London and is one of the world’s most respected art publications. In 2005, she headed up the team that launched Artinfo.com, which went on to become one of the leading websites for art news globally. Concurrently, she was staff writer for the print magazines under the same holding company, Art + Auction and Modern Painters. Subsequently, Sarah spent three years as Culture Editor at The New York Observer, overseeing weekly culture pages and launching its visual art vertical Gallerist. She has contributed to The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Economist and The National, among other publications. In 2013, she was the recipient of ArtTable’s New Leadership award. An authority on art and the art market, Sarah has spoken at art fairs and events around the world, and has been interviewed on NPR, among other outlets.
Speaker on
The US Art Market today
Session
21/05/2026
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09:50 - 10:35
Women Trailblazing Entrepreneurs in the Art World
Session
21/05/2026
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12:20 - 13:00