Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. She is a contributor to the New York Times, the Financial Times, and W magazine, among other publications. 

She serves as editor at large of CULTURED magazine, where she consults on editorial strategy, and a contributing editor to The Art Newspaper, where she writes a column about changes and challenges in American art museums. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News. Her writing and reporting focus on power and money in the art world, how change happens, and who is leading it. Halperin was named to Apollo magazine’s 40 under 40 USA list in 2023. 

She has written and edited stories that helped inspire meaningful change, but her greatest legacy may be teaming up with her former colleague Ben Davis to call out the peculiar practice of placing young women beside artworks in auction press photos—a tradition that ended shortly thereafter.