Art Editor

Sobaka.ru is seeking an Art Editor to produce articles, reviews, guides, digests, and interviews about art, with a focus on St. Petersburg and world cultural events.

Responsibilities: preparing materials for the Sobaka.ru website about art, including major articles, reviews, guides, digests, and interviews; working on texts for the magazine when necessary; independent research and development of themes, events, and news in the art sphere in St. Petersburg and worldwide, considering seasonal, monthly, and weekly agendas; maintaining editorial and personal calendars, noting important events and news hooks; independently proposing topics for major publications and coordinating them with the section's managing editor; sourcing exclusive materials and news hooks to supply SMM and news departments with relevant and viral content.

Ability to write substantive texts in Sobaka.ru style without fluff, bureaucratic language, or clichés; understanding of differences between curatorial and authorial texts, and ability to transform the former into independent authorial material; ability to independently identify events and news hooks of interest to the publication; strong visual and reading awareness, understanding of cultural processes in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the world; own network of professional contacts in the art environment from PR specialists to artists; developed communication skills; experience in journalism or blogging for at least 3 years; art history education is a plus, but more important is the ability to work with facts and strong writing skills. Test assignment: 1. Provide 3-5 examples of new exhibitions in December 2026 that you would cover with major features if you were the art editor at Sobaka.ru. How would these texts be structured (describe genre and structure; no need to write the texts themselves)? 2. Write an announcement (up to 1000 characters including spaces) for an exhibition you would include in the digest 'Main exhibitions of December 2026 in Petersburg'. 3. Come up with and pitch 3 feature ideas you would write for Sobaka.ru as the editor of the 'Art' section.