Artnet News senior reporter and columnist Katya Kazakina has won the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s 2025 Front Page Award for specialized reporting in arts and entertainment for the second consecutive year. The award recognizes her July story “Keeping Up With the Clients: The Art World Lifestyle Can Be Dangerously Alluring,” which investigated how dealers and advisors overextend themselves financially and legally to maintain social ties with wealthy patrons. The piece grew out of her earlier scoop on dueling lawsuits between ultra-high-end art advisors Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher.
The award underscores Kazakina’s role as a leading investigative journalist in the art market, a field often opaque and resistant to scrutiny. Her reporting has repeatedly set the agenda on issues like market downturns, flipping, and generational shifts in collecting. This recognition also highlights the importance of specialized arts journalism in holding powerful art-world figures accountable, especially as the market faces ongoing contraction and ethical challenges.