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Kusama’s Jerry Maguire?

Athletes, actors, and authors all have agents. So why don’t artists? That’s the question that UTA tried to answer with its Fine Arts division. Now, the agency has put that initiative on pause.

joshua roth
Roth was a unicorn, uniquely placed by personal interest, family pedigree, and training to figure out what it might mean for artists to have agents. Photo: Mat Hayward/WireImage
Marion Maneker
September 16, 2024

UTA, the third-largest Hollywood talent agency, has quietly closed its Fine Arts division, as well as the UTA Artist Spaces in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Some of the artists and art-adjacent figures represented by UTA recently got calls notifying them that the agency was suspending their activities in the space. Division director Arthur Lewis, a collector whose business background was mostly in retail, at places like Old Navy, has decided to wrap things up. Harrison Tenzer, hired just a year ago, is no longer with the firm.