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The Los Angeles Press Club acknowledged Kazakina’s reporting in two incisive characteristic tales on the artwork market.

Artnet News senior reporter Katya Kazakina has received a 2023 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club.

The successful story, “The Fight Against Flippers,” was revealed as the duvet characteristic of The Artnet Intelligence Report. It explored varied mechanisms artists and their galleries use to battle speculators, starting from blacklisting the worst offenders to devising good contracts and promoting new artworks instantly from their studios at auctions.

“This richly detailed and sourced story by Kazakina shows how artists lose out when their works are quickly flipped for quick profits by speculative buyers,” the judges wrote of their commentary.

Kazakina additionally took second place within the on-line gentle information characteristic class for her weekly column “The Art Detective” about the explosive market for work by the late Pulitzer Prize-winner Winfred Rembert.

The article particulars Rembert’s extraordinary life and deeply unconventional path to artwork fame: he survived a near-lynching and 7 years in a Georgia jail gathering cotton on a series gang earlier than he started making artwork, then snuck into the Yale Graduate Club and met the director of the college’s artwork gallery, who gave him a present.

Last yr, Kazakina won a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page award within the class “Specialized Reporting: Arts” for “The Art Detective” and positioned second within the columnist class on the Los Angeles Press Club behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s writing for the Hollywood Reporter.

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The Fight Against Flippers: How Artists and Dealers Are Trying to Beat Speculators at Their Own Game

Unfairly Imprisoned, He Labored on a Chain Gang for Years. Now Winfred Rembert’s Paintings About That Experience Are Selling for Nearly $300,000

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