Ingrid Barbara Sischy was a South African-born American writer and editor who specialized in covering art, photography, and fashion.
25 Facts About Ingrid Sischy
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Ingrid Sischy rose to prominence as the editor of Artforum from 1979 to 1988, and was editor-in-chief of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine from 1989 to 2008.
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Ingrid Sischy had two older brothers, Mark Sischy, a lawyer who lived in Scotland, and David Sischy, a doctor.
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The family had had to leave South Africa because Ingrid Sischy's mother was in danger of being arrested for her involvement in an activist group, the Black Sash, that non-violently protested apartheid.
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In 1967, the family moved to Rochester, New York, where Ingrid Sischy's father became the head of radiation oncology at Highland Hospital.
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Ingrid Sischy received an honorary PhD in the humanities from the Moore College of Art in 1987.
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Ingrid Sischy became the circulation coordinator at Print Collector's Newsletter, an art world industry resource, and was promoted to the role of editor, contributing reviews of art shows New York City.
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Ingrid Sischy was hired, and almost immediately fired, by the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where the dress code and atmosphere made her feel untrue to herself.
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Ingrid Sischy then worked at Printed Matter, Inc, a nonprofit book publisher that introduced her to artists like Sol LeWitt, Jenny Holzer, and many emerging artists.
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In 1978, Ingrid Sischy interned at The Museum of Modern Art under a National Endowment for the Arts curation grant focusing on photography exhibits, one called "In the Twenties: Portraits From the Photography Department", and another on photographer Ansel Adams.
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In 1979, at the age of 27, Ingrid Sischy was appointed editor-in-chief of Artforum magazine by businessman and publisher Anthony Korner and Amy Baker Sandback.
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Ingrid Sischy tapped into the downtown art scene and advised on covers and content, often written by artists.
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Ingrid Sischy was profiled at length by the critic and journalist Janet Malcolm in The New Yorker.
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Ingrid Sischy left Artforum in 1988, to become a consulting editor at The New Yorker and work on the AIDS virus, which had begun to decimate the downtown artist community.
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In 1989, Ingrid Sischy became the editor of Interview, a downtown magazine founded by Andy Warhol in 1969.
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In 2008, Ingrid Sischy resigned from Interview magazine amidst much press and speculation.
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Ingrid Sischy was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair from 1997 until her death in 2015.
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Ingrid Sischy was the international editor of Conde Nast, writing for the Spanish, French, and Italian versions of Vanity Fair, and the German and Russian versions of Vogue.
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Ingrid Sischy shared this position with her long-time partner and later wife, Sandra Brant.
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Ingrid Sischy was a member of an all-female art band called Disband, founded in 1978 by artists and writers.
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Ingrid Sischy was a widely published author on a range of cultural subjects and contributed to several periodicals, including The New York Times and Vanity Fair and was at one time the fashion and photography critic for The New Yorker.
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In 2013, Ingrid Sischy was given the "Fashion Scoop of the Year" Award at the Fashion Media Awards by the photographer Bruce Weber.
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Ingrid Sischy described the chronic battles of her brother, Mark Ingrid Sischy, with alcoholism in her interview with designer John Galliano, who was newly sober.
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In 2015, Ingrid Sischy married her longtime partner of over 25 years, Sandra Brant.
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Ingrid Sischy died on July 24,2015, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from breast cancer at the age of 63.