Meet the Latest Addition to the Art World: The Artist’s Agent

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.In June, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith took a walk down memory lane on the Independent art fair’s podcast Previously Unknown. She described her early days exploring the 1970s art world, a place so small it would be unrecognizable today.“I could see everything I wanted to in a day,&