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Sarah Harrelson (née Sarah Goldsmith in 1972) is an American magazine editor, founder and editor-in-chief of the arts magazine Cultured since 2011. She was editor-in-chief of the magazine Ocean Drive from 2007 to 2011, and launched the Home and Design section of the Miami Herald in 2002 that she headed until 2007.
Sarah Goldsmith grew up in Rumson, New Jersey. She studied at NYU where she earned a BA in political science and government in 1994, and minored in journalism.[1] She did an internship at the office of New York governor Mario Cuomo, and then at the magazine Elle. She moved to Miami in 1994 and became a style editor for the magazine South Florida, where she was promoted executive director in July 1996.[2] A few months later, she moved to Los Angeles to work for Women's Wear Daily and W,[3] then back in New York to work as entertainment editor at Seventeen, and then back in Miami in 2000 where she launched the Home and Design section of the Miami Herald in 2002 the she directed for five years. In 2007, she left the Miami Herald and became editor-in-chief of both Ocean Drive and Art Basel Magazine.[4][5]
Harrelson founded the magazine Cultured in 2011, which quickly found an audience and turned into her life's new venture.[1][4] She also launched the Fort Lauderdale high-luxury magazine Venice in 2015[6] and the Los Angeles-focused magazine LALA in 2017.[7]
She collects art, including work of Spencer Sweeney, Lucy Dodd, Tschabalala Self, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Bunny Rogers, Arthur Jafa, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Donna Huanca, Neil Baloufa, Janette Mundt, Elle Pérez, and Josh Kline.[8][5][9]
She is married to the interior designer Austin Harrelson. They have three children.[4] Her son Quinn also works in arts.[10]