Dear Fellow TIAMSA Members,
It is my great pleasure to share with you the nomination of TIAMSA trustee Natasha Degen as Director of Sotheby’s Institute – New York campus effective January 2026. A distinguished scholar and leader in the global art market, Degen brings deep academic expertise and international experience to the role.
Degen is currently department chair of the Art Market Studies Master’s program at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) with the rank of full professor. A graduate of Princeton University and with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar, her expertise encompasses the history of the art market and the intersection of culture and commerce today. She is the author of The Market (MIT Press, 2013) and Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol (Reaktion Books, 2023), and a contributor to publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, Artforum, and frieze. She also serves on the boards of the Journal for Art Market Studies apart from TIAMSA.
Please join me in congratulating Natasha Degen on her new position and wishing success.
Veronique Chagnon-Burke & Anne-Sophie Radermecker
TIAMSA Co-Chairs & Trustees
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