Angelica Villa

Angelica Villa is a staff reporter for ARTnews. She joined Art Media in spring 2020 as an editor and analyst for the former ARTnews affiliate Art Market Monitor, where she ran an online channel dedicated to auction news. Previously, she was a business analyst in the chairman’s office at Christie’s New York, and held a role in the appraisals department. Prior to that, she was an editorial assistant at a New York publishing company, where she worked on museum and gallery exhibition catalogues. Angelica has reported in depth on topics related to the art market and auction houses, including industry financial reports, museum art sales, and restitution cases. Her recent articles include coverage of international auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips; calls for the return of a Bellotto painting sold under duress at a Houston museum to the heirs of its original owners; and reviews of fashion shows in Venice. She has contributed to data and research for the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue published each fall. She has spoken to NPR about her reporting on museum deaccessioning, and her writing has appeared in Art in America, as well as Los Angeles fashion and literary magazines Flaunt and Riot Material. Angelica received a B.A. in art history from Boston University, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree from the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with a focus on cultural criticism. She is based in Brooklyn.