Artsy is looking for an experienced editor to lead our coverage of visual culture. Within Artsy's vision of a world where art is as ubiquitous a part of culture as music, Artsy Editorial strives to broaden the audience engaging with art and visual culture on a daily basis. We tell stories that make art more accessible, celebrate creativity, and unpack the contemporary visual landscape in a timely, engaging, and educational manner.
The Visual Culture Editor will lead one of our fastest-growing verticals, which seeks to look at and analyze the world in the same way we look at art. Through both writing and assigning stories, they will play a crucial role in increasing our coverage of photography and photojournalism, design, architecture, internet culture, and more.
We're looking for someone who's excited to unpack images of a major news event, key issue, or cultural epoch; be at the forefront of who's evolving social and cultural representation; analyze how innovation is influencing the way images are made and circulated; describe how visual trends arise and what makes some stick; and tell stories about everything weird, wonderful, and seemingly banal in between.
Reporting to the Executive Editor, the Visual Culture Editor will embrace opportunities for growth and work well both independently and as part of a close-knit team. The ideal candidate brings strong writing and editing skills to the table as well as experience conceiving of big-picture strategy for a content vertical within a fast-paced digital publication. They are comfortable pitching, assigning, writing, and editing under tight, daily deadlines, balancing their own writing with contributions from internal writers and freelance contributors. And they're passionate about joining a fast-growing startup that puts an emphasis on collaboration over individual accomplishments.
Comfortable writing 2-3 stories per week and editing 3-4 stories per week.
This position is full-time and starts immediately. Please include links to at least three recent stories you have written or edited that would fall within Artsy's coverage of visual culture—or where you think we should be—in your cover letter as well as three ideas you would want to assign or write this week and one larger feature you would want to produce in the next quarter.
To apply, please submit your resumé, a cover letter, and assignment.
Artsy's mission is to make all the world's art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Our vision is a world where art is as popular as music. We are a resource for art collecting and education.
Artsy features the world's leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions, all in one place. Our growing database of 400,000 images of art, architecture, and design by 50,000 artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest online database of contemporary art. Artsy is used by art lovers, museum-goers, patrons, collectors, students, and educators to discover, learn about, and collect art.
In addition to our vision of a world where art is as popular as music, Artsy has five core values that will inform your experience at Artsy.