ARTNET TO CEASE PUBLICATION

According to an internal memo sent by editor Walter Robinson, Artnet is ceasing publication after sixteen years. The message noted that all three of its sites (English, German, and French) will be terminated, and that its full-time editorial staff will be leaving the company. This development comes on the same day that CEO Hans Neuendorf resigned from his position, handing over the reins to his son, Jacob Pabst.

In the email, obtained by Art in America, Robinson said, “Hans Neuendorf gave me a great opportunity sixteen years ago when he hired me to help launch the magazine. He pretty much gave me a free hand to develop our special vision of art writing—smart, funny, and informative texts on art that had a grounding in social reality, including pictures of people and reports on prices . . . . I always liked to say that you could read an art review in the New York Times or Art in America—where I worked for twenty years before Artnet—and not even know the damn things were for sale. We liked to mix all that up in Artnet—art criticism without too much blah blah blah.”