Coming on the heels of 12 months of extraordinary financial stress, both in the artworld and the real world, the 2009 edition of the Power 100 reflects fundamental changes in influence. Previous No. 1s, both artists and collectors, have plummeted, while only the most ambitious of museums have stayed near the top; meanwhile, percolating up from the middle ranks is a new generation of highly networked, flexible, globetrotting curators – men and women at the very centre of a new way of working.
The ArtReview Power 100 is not just a who’s who to contemporary art but also a guide to general trends and forces that shape the artworld. With almost a third of entries new to the list this year, and sharp divisions among the panel of international experts making the selections, this edition is one of the freshest in years.
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Where are the Indian artists like M.F. Hussain, Anish Kapoor? This list is very disappointing.
The Most Powerful 100 People…. from an American magazine’s point of view. I think it says more about the country this magazine is published in, than the art world itself
Glenn Beck? I don’t get it.
How does AR define “influential/powerful?”
Pick ‘N Mix – November 2009…
Welcome to this month’s Pick ‘N Mix.
- “Everyone’s a Curator” is the theme of a recent item over at Bad at Sports. As they say: “Even Umberto Eco. I love what the Louvre is doing by signing him on as guest curator (as they have previously done…
I see no Eskimos or Apache Indians listed. Appalling! Glenn Beck bumped me off the list. I am now 101.
Those are some crappy looking graphs, people. Get schooled http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
I find that the addition to be in extreme distaste. Not that I am offended, I just naturally don’t trust the list’s opinion. It’s a gimmick. Kangaroo Review!
yesterday’s news-already stale-where are the kinetic/tech/web/sound artists?
there are no more castles
there are no more kings
there are no more castes
and democracy reigns
…how many of your gallery advertisers/contributors/previous article subjects are on the list?
no self promo here is there?
Where is my name ?
http://www.1connu.com
I guess anyone can make lists… but is there an explanation as to why some people are selected and where they are placed or is it just for us to speculate?
EJW: We will be adding biographies for all 2009 Power 100s in the coming weeks, but in the meantime you can link to http://www.artreviewdigital.com and read them there.
i don’t get the Glenn Beck joke.
is it because of the Jerry Saltz exhibition challenge?
and no latin americans? c’mon.
Just a suggestion. How about linking each name to a biography on them? I do not recognize many of the names. It would be a great read and learning curve to be able to see who each person is. I want to read about what makes them so influential.
Bwoy!…wa gwaan with these powerful (read myopic) art world. Even in this century where the Obama’s of theis world win Npbel Prize…we still get a bunch of wankers who sit there popping LSD and decide who’s who.What about Africa. Why no one ever consider Siandika Donkolo Foundation in Angola? Am happy though that Okwui moved from no. 87 to 67. I think Hans Ulrich Obrist is over rated …he is acerbic nonetheless. Keep doing the list…its good for discourse. Big Up TO THE Global Art World Revolution!!
the list shows the appalling patriarchal dominance of women in the art world. Shocking….
this is absolutely appalling in terms of female representation. It is sick how male dominated the art world is. I wish that there penises will rot and a way that these men will dominate over to become a more maternal and less patriarchal institution…
Would be very interesting to see a list that shows emerging artists and gallerists, sort of a people to watch list.
Support Ai Weiwei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
It’s a shame no South Americans are present in your list.
That seems one more cluster of developed countries !!!
You did a great job. Thanks
Who had influenced yourself to establish this list ? that one or those ones could be the over power 100,don ‘t they, if we understand the kind of thinking attached to this kind of list, useful for people who’ve got something to sell, ne
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Where is Banksy? A sold out exhibition people had to queue for hours for…
Filial ingratitude . No Duchamp ? How absurd ! No Paik ? How incredulous ! Isnt it a silly proposition that a curator or a shop-keeper ie Gagosian or a price-fixer ( P … read the disgraced owner of Christies )Well paid museum directors are parasites living off the blood and sweat of the Artists . Artist is primogeniture ….. the rest money-spinners .
Ha ha ho ho. Is this true? Is it true that somebody is making up a list of the 100 “most powerful” people in the kingdom of art? What a humbug. And interestingly, some people do take it as if there is said anything with this catalogue of media presence. It’s probably meant as a lesson about how stardom chasing has become a part of every part of our society. Where’s is the next global superstar in art? Let’s make a casting… I always felt that art is becoming more and more the derrieregarde of mass media and pop and nonsense. Proven!
More complete statistics, including a 2008 nationality graphic, can be found in the magazine online: http://www.artreviewdigital.com
Anton Vidokle, number 8
How about showing a graphic for nationality in 2008 to compare with this year or even five years ago? Bet we’d see some changes…
I can’t find any russian in this list, but diagram shows 1% to Russia. Please, help!
I dont see any dutch poeple among these so called 100 most influent poeple in art!
What about thad dutch gui albertus Van Wyk adagp member in france , for political reasons under french sencure with some extraordinary creative ideas in artistic and cultural aereas with his specific art alloy’s aenors,spirit of aenors, his serial ‘Ikons of the planet’s soul’ based on driftwoods withe aenors applications, his multicoçeptual colectors items wich are to be considered revolutionary sice they are refundable with interest of9% at 36 month’s if returned sealed and sound wich makes them similar to bankdraft’s!
http://www.aenors.com
pratik bhat: see #62
I am also interested if this is “the” Glenn Beck…if so, why?
Where is Joan Sonnabend? I would have expected to see her name on the list. Glenn Beck ??? Must be there because of his expose of the NEA and the White House episode. Isn’t it frightening to think that BHO (who really should be on the list) wants to get rid of charitable contributions? I mean doesn’t that just start to kill the art industry? http:\\www.KingP234.com
My coverage of the 2009 Power 100:
Art Review Power 100 for 2009: Year of the Curator
http://post.thing.net/node/2861
http://stevenkaplannewyork.blogspot.com/2009/10/art-review-power-100-for-2009-year-of.html
http://miamiartexchange.com/articles/2009/10/15/art-review-power-100-for-2009-year-of-the-curator/
Wow there are not any Spanish at all, thats rocks!
Just to follow up: Ray Johnson, Rauschenberg, Cornell, Cage, Schwitters and many of the late Fluxus artists have been a great influence on my work, and I know they are still influencing thousands of artists the world over. Cage, for one, is a giant and his influence is extremely powerful. More so than, say, Victoria Miro.
MATTHEW ROSE / http://homepage.mac.com/mistahcoughdrop/
Why no Steve Lazarides?
I hope everyone notices that this is by an anonymous jury. People so anxious about their pecking order that they are not prepared to be revealed as to what their authority is. How can the market have overtaken the institution so far that only dealers really feature. Old is good but why are there almost no younger artists on there? and how can Rirkrit be on here when Phillipe Parreno is not nor as another person comments no South Americans, Frances Alys nor Orozco nor Meirieles.
Bad list guys.
HAHA Gratz Glenn Beck!!
I wonder how much it hurt putting him on here..
HAHA I love it
pratik bhat, check number 62 where Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers stand.
I’m a bit surprised Glenn Beck is on this list at all. Unless this is another Glenn Beck and not the Right Wing Fox Newsbunny.
On another front, I’m also curious about how many dead artists have more influence on art than living artists, curators and barmaids. That category might produce an entirely different list, include more women and more geographical diversity.
MATTHEW ROSE / http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
not seen anything yet to comment on
i think you sould put Gabriel Orozco in the list. is one of the gratest artist of the last 20 years.
Also, Francis Allis, and Mario Garcia Torres.
last year I bought ArtReview Power 100 edition, thus I’m really ansious to see the new list (because I work for the cultural edition of a mexican newspaper).
A.
Great work !!!!!!!
I want to see that. Thanks
I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in anticipation.
All the best.
Kate
who will it be I wonder?
please send me a copy of this list
Just give me the Info
the Power 100 is the best!
Please forward the power 100 list when it becomes available.
hi
i noticed a big absence in your power list. in the art world it is common that gallery sprüth magers is very big. espacially monika sprüth has a big influence. she sales gursky sherman holzer fischli/weiss baldessari. and much more http://www.spruethmagers.com
i suppose you just forgot her in the list, because there are a few galerist in, i doubt if monika sprüth isnt more important as she works with this big artist over 30 years. just check wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprüth_Magers_Berlin_London
i hope i could help you. thank you