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- ↑ "Women in Business Q&A: Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and Director, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art". Laura Dunn. 21 May 2015.
- ↑ "Rebecca Wilson Hopes Her Online Gallery Saatchi Art Can Help Democratize the Art World". LA Weekly. 5 March 2014.
- ↑ "Interview with New Sensations Curator, Rebecca Wilson, London". Aesthetica.
- ↑ "Writer Geoff Dyer on dangerous hitchhikers, his stroke & conventions of reading". New Zealand Listener.
- ↑ "Saatchi takes his former righthand woman to court". telegraph.co.uk.
- ↑ "Charles Saatchi Sues Former Gallery Assistant Rebecca Wilson For Damages". artlyst.com.