Great news for Artnet News’s own Art Detective, Katya Kazakina, who has won a 2024 Front Page Award for specialized reporting from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. 

“This is such an honor!” said Kazakina. “I am grateful to have this voice as part of a great news team at Artnet.”

Kazakina is known as a dogged and insightful reporter on the art world who frequently breaks important news, partly as a result of her deep bench of insider sources. She won the Club’s recognition for a series of columns about the state of the art market that quickly became the subject of intense debate. 

The first, in March, “‘It’s Not a Soft Landing’: Contemporary Art Prices Come Crashing Down. Is This the End?,” revealed plummeting prices for some ultra-contemporary works that previously seemed on an endless upward trajectory. She followed up in April with “‘If It Goes to Zero—Fine’: Why Do Collectors Pay Wild Prices for New Art?,” which described art collecting as a kind of addiction. The third, later that month, was “Is It Time to Cut Art Prices? Long Considered Taboo, the Idea Is Gaining Traction.”

She additionally won third place for her article “The Horse Trading Behind the Ecstatic, $3 Billion Mark Rothko Exhibition at Foundation Louis Vuitton.”

Kazakina joined Artnet News as a senior reporter in April 2021 after nearly 15 years as an art market and wealth reporter at Bloomberg News. She has also contributed to the New York Times and Town & Country Magazine.

She recently reported on layoffs at Sotheby’s, revealed anonymous sellers in the marquee fall New York auctions, and broke the news that Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous Comedian (2019) would go to auction at Sotheby’s New York.

The Art Detective continues to rack up journalism awards: She also won a 2023 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club for her article “The Fight Against Flippers,” which was published as the cover feature of The Artnet Intelligence Report. She also took second place in 2022 in the online soft news feature category for her weekly Art Detective column about the explosive market for paintings by the late Pulitzer Prize winner Winfred Rembert.

She has previously earned the esteem of the Newswomen’s Club of New York, winning a 2023 Front Page award in the category “Specialized Reporting: Arts” for “The Art Detective.” 

She additionally placed second in the columnist category in 2023 at the Los Angeles Press Club, behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s writing for the Hollywood Reporter.

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Founded in 1922 as the New York Newspaper Woman’s Club in the wake of the women’s suffrage movement (and renamed in 1971), the Newswomen’s Club introduced the Front Page Awards in 1937 to raise funds and highlight female scribes’ work. The only professional organization exclusively for women journalists in the New York metropolitan area, it boasts about 250 members, hailing from titles such as the New York Times, Business Insider, and the Associated Press.