The “real” art world is a mysterious thing even to those operating within its shady confines. To the average outsider, it’s an impenetrable maze of power-hungry ladder climbers and untouchable tastemakers. To get a handle on who the people are that really pull the strings behind the scenes check out Art Review Magazine’s recently-published list of the art world’s 100 most powerful people. And no, you’re probably not on it. Smell the money…
THE ART WORLD POWER 100 LIST (as published by ART REVIEW MAGAZINE)
1: François Pinault, owner of Gucci and Christies.
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, 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
21: Paul Schimmel, chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
22: Andreas Gursky, German photographer
23: Cheyenne Westphal & Tobias Meyer, auctioneers, Sotheby’s
24: Barbara Gladstone, New York, gallerist
25: Thelma Golden, executive director, Studio Museum, New York
26: Victoria Miro, gallery owner, London
27: Dakis Joannou, Greek collector
28: Richard Prince, American collector
29: Don & Mera Rubell, American collectors
30: Donna de Salvo, Shamim Momin & Chrissie Iles, curators, Whitney Museum, New York
31: Daniel Birnbaum Writer, director, Portikus gallery, Frankfurt
32: Steven A Cohen, American hedge fund tycoon and collector
33: Michael Govan, director, LA County Museum of Art
34: Simon de Pury, owner, Phillips de Pury auction house
35: Sadie Coles, London-based dealer
36: Robert Gober, American sculptor
37: Eugenio Lopez, Mexican/US-based collector
38: Bruno Brunnet, Nicole Hackert & Philipp Haverkampf, directors, Contemporary Fine Art gallery, Berlin
39: Francesca von Habsburg, Austrian collector and philanthropist
40: Jeffrey Deitch, New York gallerist
41: Nicholas Logsdail Founder, Lisson Gallery, London
42: Thomas Hirschhorn, Swiss artist
43: Iwona Blazwick, director, Whitechapel art gallery, London
44: The Wrong Gallery, New York, conceptual gallery
45: Jeff Wall, Canadian photographer
46: Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director, Serpentine gallery, London
47: Ingvild Goetz, German collector
48: Pierre Huyghe, French artist
49: UBS Swiss, investment bank and major art sponsor
50: Deutsche Bank, German bank and major art sponsor
51: Tracey Emin, British artist
52: Gilbert & George, British artists
53: Dominique Levy & Robert Mnuchin, New York gallerists
54: Harry Blain & Graham Southern, London-based gallerists
55: Roberta Smith, senior art critic, New York Times
56: Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss architects behind Tate Modern
57: Jerry Saltz, art critic for the Village Voice
58: Frank Gehry, American architect of the Bilbao Guggenheim
59: Javier Peres, Cuban-born dealer
60: Christine Macel, contemporary art curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
61: Eileen Norton, Los Angeles collector
62: Rosa & Carlos de la Cruz, Miami collectors
63: Ralph Rugoff, director, the Hayward Gallery, London
64: Max Hetzler, Berlin-based gallerist
65: Miuccia Prada, fashion designer and collector
66: Neo Rauch, German artist
67: Gerd Harry Lybke, German dealer
68: Carsten Höller Sweden-based Belgian-born artist, newly installed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
69: Maureen Paley, London gallerist
70: Zach Feuer, New York gallerist
71: Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist
72: Antoine de Galbert, French collector
73: Richard Serra, American sculptor
74: Paul McCarthy, American artist
75: Okwui Enwezor, New York-based curator
76: William Acquavella, New York gallerist
77: Matthew Marks, New York gallerist
78: Michael Ringier, Swiss media magnate
79: James Lingwood & Michael Morris, co-directors, Artangel, London
80: Thomas Krens & Lisa Dennison, director and deputy director, Guggenheim, New York
81: Matthew Higgs, chief curator, White Columns, New York
82: Lorenz Helbling, Swiss-born gallerist
83: David Adjaye, London-based architect
84: Anita & Poju Zabludowicz, London-based private collectors
85: Hou Hanru, Chinese-born curator, based in US
86: Gavin Brown, British-born New York gallerist
87: Lynne Cooke, curator at the Dia Art Foundation, New York
88: Anselm Kiefer, German artist
89: Jean-Marc Bustamante, French artist
90: Matthew Barney, American artist
91: Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and author
92: Ann Philbin Director, the Hammer Museum, New York
94: Anish Kapoor, Bombay-born London-based sculptor
95: agnès b. French clothing designer and gallerist
96: Luc Tuymans, Belgian artist
97: João Oliveira Rendiero, art collector and chairman, Lisbon’s Banco Privado Portugues
98: Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
99: Cai Guo-Qiang, Chinese artist
100: Google, ubiquitous internet search engine
