[2] In the early 1960s, Esterow discovered a niche in the area of cultural news, bringing an investigative style to a part of newspaper journalism that had previously been devoted to reviews of exhibits and biographical profiles of important personalities.
[1] Milton and Judith Esterow owned America's oldest continually published art magazine ARTnews from 1972 to 2014.
Esterow worked as a writer, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the periodical, where his goal was to make it the world's largest circulated arts magazine.
Scholarly articles with footnotes, common in the magazine before 1972, ceased to appear, while Esterow gave more coverage to personalities and the developments of the art market.
"[2] Esterow hobnobbed with famous figures in the art world, including Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ansel Adams.