Has art pricing gotten out of hand?

Naomi Rea has helmed the award-winning Artnet News editorial team since 2023, bringing a bold and strategic vision to one of the leading voices in the art world. Widely regarded as a trusted authority on the intersection of art, technology, and data, Naomi is known for her sharp cultural insight and forward-thinking approach to journalism. She holds master’s degrees in Arts and Lifestyle Journalism from the London College of Communication and in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin. In addition to her work at Artnet News, Naomi’s reporting has appeared in major publications including The Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, and other top-tier outlets.

Wendi Norris is the founder and head of Gallery Wendi Norris, a leading international, San Francisco-based art gallery that champions visionary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Wendi and her team are grounded by decades-long relationships with these luminaries, representing artists whose nomadic, intuitive, and intellectually rigorous practices interrogate the aesthetic, scientific, and philosophical movements of their time and whose work flows across disciplines, continents, and generations. Since establishing the gallery in 2002, Wendi has curated over 150 solo and thematic exhibitions. Under her direction, the gallery has published 20 monographs and exhibition catalogs; hosted dozens of artists’ symposia and scholars’ discussions; and carried out multiple poetry readings and film and dance productions, inspired by these artists’ work. In addition, she is regularly invited to speak about the Surrealist movement, the global art scene, public art, art and technology, and women in the arts. She served four years on the board of the Art Dealers Association of America. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA in International Relations and Spanish from The Ohio State University.

Over the past 13 years Jeff has built a collection that spans from emerging artists to old masters, has served on museum boards and committees and co-founded the Vanguard Council at the Metropolitan Museum. Recently he has been sharing stories of art, collecting and culture on social media @magideye. His public art collection in Mexico City, Cuernavaca Tres opens in 2026.

For more than 30 years, Allan Schwartzman provides short- and long-term bespoke advice to influential and sophisticated collectors the world over, guiding them in the formation of their holdings in modern, post-war and contemporary art. Known equally as a tastemaker in contemporary art and an authority on the art market, and widely respected as an independent curator, Allan's advisory projects include nascent and mature private collections; serving as creative director and chief curator in the formation and ongoing evolution of Instituto Inhotim, in Brazil; conceiving of and executing legacy and market development strategies for practicing artists and artists' estates; and supporting private individuals and family foundations in major gifts of their collections in alignment with their patronage of established museums, as well as in the formation of private museums. Allan was a founding staff member and curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. He serves on the Board of Artists Space, one of New York's primary alternative venues for exhibiting artists' work.