Andrew Decker is the sole proprietor of Andrew Decker Communications, which works largely in the field of visual arts. He began his career in writing in 1982 as a free-lance journalist with a series of service articles that provided useful information to art collectors and dealers and news items. His stories in ARTnews on Nazi art loot revealed that Austria was still holding, 40 years after World War II, works of art and personal property confiscated from Jews and other enemies of the Third Reich.. The series, which ran from 1984 to 1996, triggered widespread interest and legal actions relating to Nazi looted art that continue to this day and led Austria to change its laws regarding the restitution of personal property to victims of fascism.

Other notable stories shed light on the workings of the mysterious Nahmad family, who had never been profiled before, and the disputes over the O’Keeffe and Picasso estates. stories on Austria’s Nazi-looted art and specialized in reporting on aspects of the art world: fraud, legal issues, the art market and its participants, and Nazi-looted art that had not been returned to its pre-World War II owners or their heirs. He won journalism awards for articles in that area as well as stories that shed light on the workings of the mysterious Nahmad family and revealed the battle over Willem de Kooning’s late works and his late stage dementia. He never wrote art criticism.

In 2001, after working for a dot com for two years, Decker started working independently in the field of public relations. He has handled press campaigns for museums and art galleries and cultural institutions.

Prior to his work in reporting and communications, he was an Assistant Vice President at Sotheby’s. He graduated from Brown University, in Providence, RI, with a BA in Semiotics.

He lives in New York City.