Artnet News senior journalist Katya Kazakina won 2023 award National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club.
The winning story, “The fight against palm fronds”, was published on the cover of The Artnet intelligence report. He explored various mechanisms that artists and their galleries use to combat speculators, from blacklisting the worst offenders to designing smart contracts and selling new artworks directly from their studios at auction.
“This richly detailed and documented story from Kazakina shows how artists lose out when their works are quickly sold for quick profits by speculative buyers,” the judges wrote in their commentary.
Kazakina also took second place in the online reporting category for her weekly column “The Art Detective.” in the explosive market for the paintings of Pulitzer Prize winner Winfred Rembert.
The article details Rembert's extraordinary life and deeply unconventional path to artistic fame: he survived a near-lynching and seven years in a Georgia prison picking cotton for a chain gang before beginning to make art, then sneaked into the Yale Graduate Club and met the director. from the university art gallery, which offered him an exhibition.
Last year, Kazakina won a Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York in the “Special Reporting: Arts” category for “The art detective» and ranked second in the columnist category at Los Angeles Press Club behind the writings of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the Hollywood journalist.
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