APAA Advisors in CULTURED’s 2026 Power Advisor List

Congratulations to the many APAA members recognized on CULTURED’s 2026 Power Advisor List. Their inclusion reflects the exceptional depth, rigor, and trusted expertise that define our community — and underscores the caliber of professionals across the APAA membership. Read the full list here.

Candace Worth

Candace Worth fell into advising by accident. After graduate school, she started pairing up two sets of friends: businesspeople and emerging artists. At some point, someone inquired about her fee for helping facilitate a sale. “I liked having my foot in each of those worlds,” Worth says. “And it is still the core of what I do today.” Twenty-five years later, Worth has steadily grown her business—enough for her to forgo deals that don’t meet her bottom line—while maintaining that soft spot for young creatives. She also runs a residency program in the Hudson Valley dedicated to young talent (Simone Leigh was one of her first guests). –Melissa Smith

Alex Glauber

When Alex Glauber collects art, he doesn’t need it to be pretty. Difficult to understand? That’s right in his wheelhouse—and also informs his approach to advising. “Looking for things that you can visually or intellectually understand and rationalize; oftentimes, those are the artworks that can end up being a bit hollow to live with,” he says. His stint in corporate collecting—he was a curator for the Lehman Brothers and Neuberger Berman art collections from 2006 to 2009—helped him learn how to blend disparate elements into a cohesive, visual story. He may also be the only art advisor who previously worked as a cheesemonger. Now, he serves as president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors, which seeks to uphold high standards for a field that does not require a license or degree to enter. –Melissa Smith

Aileen Agopian

Before launching her advisory in 2016, Agopian cut her teeth in the auction and gallery worlds, with senior roles at Sotheby’s and Phillips New York, as well as at White Cube in London. Notably, she also led contemporary art auctions at Sotheby’s in Doha—a region back in the headlines with this year’s debut of Art Basel Qatar (not to mention the current war in the Middle East). Specializing in postwar and contemporary art, Agopian works with private, corporate, estate, and nonprofit clients, principally on the U.S. coasts, but also throughout the country and in the U.K. Among them are Christy and John Mack (he’s a former Morgan Stanley CEO) and Cathy and Peter Halstead, who founded Montana’s Tippet Rise Art Center, which hosts contemporary monumental sculpture on a 12,500-acre ranch. –Brian Boucher

Anne Bruder

Bruder graduated college thinking she’d pursue a more practical part of the culture industry, like art law. But after the 2008 financial crisis, when not much seemed practical anymore, she took her chances, soon landing an internship with legendary gallerist Angela Westwater. She started her advisory in 2017 after three years of training under fellow 2026 Power Advisor Candace Worth. These days, her clients hail from New York, Dallas, Los Angeles and South Florida and range from multi-generational collectors to the head of the board at Dallas Contemporary.  –Melissa Smith

Rachel Greene

Twenty or so years ago, a college friend turned to Rachel Greene and said, “I’m tired of buying shoes at Barneys. Can we look at prints by [Helen] Frankenthaler?” That moment, Greene says, marked her transition from writer and curator of new media art to advisor—with that friend, the actor Amanda Peet, signing on as her first client. Art & Advisory officially launched a few years later; Greene rebranded it as Art & Advisory WEST after relocating in 2013 to Seattle, where the locals tend to think outside of the proverbial box about collecting. Less hunting for blue chips; more finding art about things they enjoy, like nature. –Melissa Smith

Mary Rozell

Mary Rozell has always been a strategic thinker. After studying art in Egypt and Paris, she decided to get a law degree at a time when not many people talked openly about art as a business. Later, she helped fill that gap, running the Art Business master’s program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Now the head of the art collection at UBS Art Collection—which includes over 40,000 objects amassed from various corporate mergers—she uses her negotiating acumen and connoisseurship to manage many different constituencies. “You are serving the company and its brand, as well as the employees,” she stated, “At the same time, the art is for the clients and, to a certain extent, the public. It all has to work.” –Melissa Smith

Veteran Power Advisors

Wendy Cromwell

Advising looked a lot different when Wendy Cromwell joined the field in 2002. These days, the former president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors brings to the table not only a trained eye but a commitment to maintaining the ethics of a business that once was almost entirely upheld by a type of art world honor code.

Goodman Taft

Abigail Ross Goodman cofounded Goodman Taft in 2010 and now runs it with former gallerists Molly Epstein and Ellen Langan. While collection-building sits at the core of their business, they also push the boundaries of what advisors can do philanthropically by engaging in institutional work and public art initiatives. They recently commissioned four sculptures by Lonnie Holley for Boston’s Central Wharf Park.

Schwartzman&

Founded by Allan Schwartzman, who is known for major undertakings like the development of Brazil’s Inhotim, Schwartzman& is larger than most advisories. Expanding beyond typical fare, the firm offers editorial content and strategic planning for artists and museums. 

Ana Sokoloff

Ask people in the know to identify a top advisor for Latin American art, and Ana Sokoloff is almost always at the top of the list. As a Latin American specialist at Christie’s, she was instrumental in building markets for figures like Hélio Oiticica and Doris Salcedo.

Zlot Buell + Associates

Here’s one way to create an art-advising power couple: put a 30-plus-year veteran with a deep well of industry contacts together with a Stanford alum with a strong interest in the tech space. That’s Zlot Buell + Associates. They’ve advised on the art programs for sites as disparate as the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and Stanford University.