Who

Charles C. Bergman

chairman of the board and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Charles C. Bergman is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Established in April 1985 under the will of Lee Krasner, widow of Jackson Pollock, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is the largest private foundation created to exclusively help worthy and needy visual artists around the world.

Bergman is a Senior Advisor to the Aspen Institute’s National Study of Artist Endowed Foundations project. He is also a member of the Executive Board for the Children’s Radio Foundation.

Formerly a member of the Board of Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard University Art Museums, Bergman is currently a member of their Director’s Advisory Council. Bergman also serves on the Education and Programming Committee of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, having formerly been a trustee. 

Bergman has served on the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission of New York City, appointed by Mayor Bloomberg, and on the New York State Council on the Arts, appointed by Governor Pataki.

Charlotte Burns

executive editor of In Other Words

Charlotte Burns is the editor of In Other Words, our weekly newsletters and podcasts. She was previously the US news and market editor for The Art Newspaper, as well as a regular correspondent for publications such as the Guardian and Monocle. Previously, she worked with the London dealer Anthony d’Offay on special projects. For several years, she was a consultant at the cultural communications agency, Bolton & Quinn. She also worked at Hauser & Wirth in London.

Burns received a Masters degree (with Merit) from the Courtauld Institute in Art and Cultural Politics in Germany, 1890-1945, as well as a first-class B.A. honors degree in English and History of Art from Birmingham University. She moved to New York in 2010.