Jerry Gogosian Apologizes After Mocking Sotheby’s Auctioneer’s Name

As the May auctions drew to a close this week, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the person behind the popular Instagram account Jerry Gogosian, issued an apology for having mispronounced and made fun of a Sotheby’s auctioneer’s name, a move that some at the house decried as inappropriate.Helphenstein, who regularly critiques the art market, received criticism this week for a video she made as she was live-streaming Sotheby’s “Now” evening sale on Monday. In a clip that has