About
Lindsay Pollock’s blog Art Market Views provides daily breaking news and analysis for readers seeking an insider’s perspective on the art industry. The site focuses on New York City, the reigning global art capital.
Pollock posts original content on the site, as well as links to stories she writes for other publications, including the financial news wire Bloomberg News and the London-based
She founded the blog in July 2009 and quickly garnered a widespread and loyal readership among top collectors, curators, art dealers and others.
Influential blogger and dealer Edward Winkleman quickly dubbed Art Market Views a “daily must-read.” The site has been linked to by numerous websites including Reuters, Artinfo and Curbed.
Pollock has been covering the New York art market since 2001. She began writing for ARTnews, Art & Auction, The Art Newspaper and other publications. She initiated art market coverage for the New York Sun, with the creation of a weekly column focusing on the auctions and art fair. Pollock also anchored auction news for Rainbow Media’s HD auction channel, has appeared on Plum TV. She has been interviewed on the art market by National Public Radio and other radio stations.
Her biography of pioneering art dealer Edith Halpert, The Girl with the Gallery, was published in hardback in 2006 by PublicAffairs. A paperback followed in 2008.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Pollock lives in New York City.
Events
Moderator for art market panels including:
X-Initiative, “After the Deluge” February 26, 2009, panelists included Jeffrey Deitch, Deitch Projects, Brett Littman, Drawing Center, Anya Kielar, artist and director Guild & Greyshkul
Michael Rush, Rose Art Museum, Museum of American Finance, “Banking on Art,” Sept 24, 2008, panelists included Andy Augenblick, Emigrant Savings Bank Fine Art Finance, Roland Augustine, President Art Dealer’s Association of America and Amy Cappellazzo, Christie’s SVP Co-Head Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, “Young Collectors”, 2008, panelists included curator Gary Carrion Murayari and collectors Alexander Casdin and Kipton Cronkite
Art Dealer’s Association of America, New York, Art Collectors’ Forum, “Art Dealers and Auction Houses: A Cultural Divide,” Feb. 23, 2008 with panelists including David Zwirner, Simon de Pury, Anthony Grant, Amy Cappellazzo, Michael Findlay
Art Dealer’s Association of America, New York, Art Collectors’ Forum, “A New Perspective in Uncertain Times,” Dec. 13, 2008, panelists including Richard Armstrong, Director Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Howard Rachofsky, art collector, William Goetzmann, Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management, Roland Augustine, President of ADAA and co-owner Luhring Augustine Gallery and Mary Hoeveler, Art Advisor
Lindsay lectures at museums, universities and for other groups. Topics include Edith Halpert and the rise of the New York art world, the contemporary art market and the history of art dealing and collecting in America.
Organizations who have invited her to speak include:
Fashion Institute of Technology, NY
Frick Collection, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Senior Associates)
Norton Museum of Art, Florida
San Diego Jewish Book Festival, CA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
