Peers will be responsible for overseeing a multi-page expansion of the publication’s existing art coverage, with particular attention paid to news coverage and features on New York museums, art and antiques galleries, auction houses and collectors, She will also work with the publication’s Web site: www.Observer.com, to help give arts news a substantially greater presence online. The operation will feature dedicated staffers as well as a who’s-who of art reporting globally.
“The Observer has always been an important voice for the art community in New York,” said Observer editor Kyle Pope.
“With the addition of Alexandra, and the increased coverage planned, we will be more authoritative than ever.”
The Observer will maintain its already dominant coverage of culture, including movies, television and the performing arts.
Peers' has more than a decade of international art news coverage for the Wall Street Journal. She has also written for New York magazine, The New York Times and several arts publications.
Spearheading the project on the business side is David Gursky, who served as VP/group publisher for Art + Auction, Modern Painters, Gallery Guide magazines, Museums magazine, Culture +Travel and Artinfo.com for more than six years at Louise Blouin Media, the art-industry’s leading trade publisher.
Prior to that, Gursky was a VP/Publisher at Douglas Publications, VNU Business Media and Penton Media.
The Observer’s expanded arts coverage will debut March 31.
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