Extracts by Georgina Adams :
"Everyone loves lists, and lists that combine power, money and art are simply irresistible. The ArtReview Power 100 has established itself as the anxiously awaited, obsessively examined signpost to who's in, who's out, who's hot and who's not in the contemporary art world today.
Selecting the top 100 movers and shakers in this shifting landscape is inevitably fraught with difficulties. Who wields more power : a top art dealer with a network of galleries or the director of a major museum ? How do you compare influence to India to influence in New York ? How do you evaluate money in a market where pricing transparency is non existent and deals are sealed on a handshake in a back room ? Does the (purported) sale of a £50 million diamond-encrusted skull make its creator more important - or just a lot richer ?
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The truth is that the world of contemporary art, which was once an esoteric microcosm has expanded enormously. It has expanded both through the number of people engaged in it and geographically.
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This whole world of curators, critics, architects, dealers, advisors and collectors owe their positions, their influence, and indeed their livelihoods to the artists who create the art. But could the artists be successful without the curators, critics and dealers who nurture and promote their careers ? The Power 100 reflects this interdependence, with its strange juxatpositions of the academic, the commercial and the creative."
"Everyone loves lists, and lists that combine power, money and art are simply irresistible. The ArtReview Power 100 has established itself as the anxiously awaited, obsessively examined signpost to who's in, who's out, who's hot and who's not in the contemporary art world today.
Selecting the top 100 movers and shakers in this shifting landscape is inevitably fraught with difficulties. Who wields more power : a top art dealer with a network of galleries or the director of a major museum ? How do you compare influence to India to influence in New York ? How do you evaluate money in a market where pricing transparency is non existent and deals are sealed on a handshake in a back room ? Does the (purported) sale of a £50 million diamond-encrusted skull make its creator more important - or just a lot richer ?
...
The truth is that the world of contemporary art, which was once an esoteric microcosm has expanded enormously. It has expanded both through the number of people engaged in it and geographically.
...
This whole world of curators, critics, architects, dealers, advisors and collectors owe their positions, their influence, and indeed their livelihoods to the artists who create the art. But could the artists be successful without the curators, critics and dealers who nurture and promote their careers ? The Power 100 reflects this interdependence, with its strange juxatpositions of the academic, the commercial and the creative."
But who is the first ? who is the first ?
Guess ?
1. Francois Pinault
2. Larry Gagosian
3. Sir Nicholas Serota
4. Glenn D. Lowry
5. Eli Broad
6. Damien Hirst
7. Charles Saatchi
8. Jay Jopling
9. Steven A. Cohen
10. David Zwirner
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