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Andrew Russeth is an art critic based in New York. Currently an editor at Artnet News, he has been executive editor of ARTnews and an editor at Surface and The New York Observer. From late 2020 to early 2024, he was based in Seoul. In 2019, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism. Russeth's writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, W, New York, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Artforum, Parkett, Paper Monument, Bijutsu Techo, Blau, Art in America, Art+Auction, ArtReview, The New Yorker (online), Atlas Obscura, Apollo, Artnow, and Modern Painters, as well as exhibition catalogues. He has lectured or appeared on panels at the Chautauqua Institution, various universities, and TEFAF in Maastricht. In 2005, he started 16 Miles of String, a blog about contemporary art and art history in New York that has been supported by the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. In 2013, he was named Critic of the Year in the Rob Pruitt Awards. He has a B.A. in art history and political science from Columbia University and an M.S.T. in early childhood and special education from Pace University. He spoke with Interview about his work in 2014.