The ArtReview magazine has released its annual list of one hundred powerful people. Here are the top twenty on the list:
1: François Pinault, owner of Gucci and Christies, also owns around 2,000 pieces of contemporary art which he displays in his private gallery in a Venetian palace
2: Larry Gagosian, dealer, five galleries around the world
3: Sir Nicholas Serota, director, Tate Modern
4: Glenn D Lowry, director, Museum of Modern Art, New York
5: Samuel Keller, director of the Art Basel art fair
6: Eli Broad, Los Angeles-based collector and philanthropist
7: Charles Saatchi, collector and gallery owner
8: Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp, co-publishers of Frieze magazine and co-directors of Frieze art fair
9: Bruce Nauman, American artist
10: Jeff Koons, American artist
11: Damien Hirst, British artist
12: Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo, international co-heads of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's, New York
13: Robert Storr, American curator
14: Iwan Wirth, Swiss dealer, part of Zwirner & Wirth
15: Marian Goodman, New York-based gallerist
16: David Zwirner, New York gallerist
17: Gerhard Richter, German artist
18: Marc Glimcher, New York gallerist
19: Jay Jopling, owner, White Cube gallery, London
20: Mike Kelley, American artist
1 comment:
wow, Mike Kelly? i mean, he's terrific, but i'm nonetheless surprised because his work's content doesn't seem particularly geared toward consistent mass appeal.
Then again, perhaps "mass appeal" in the contemporary art world is defined by a wholey different set of rules...
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