Art Power 100

While this list might be heavily weighted towards the USA and UK, the english-language art magazine´s principal advertising and subscription base, it makes for an interesting gossip news.

1: François Pinault (France), owner of Gucci and Christies, also owns around 2,000 pieces of contemporary art which he displays in his gallery in Venice, Italy

2: Larry Gagosian (USA), dealer, five galleries in the US and UK

3: Sir Nicholas Serota (UK), director, Tate Modern

4: Glenn D Lowry (USA), director, Museum of Modern Art, New York

5: Samuel Keller (SWITZERLAND), former director of the Art Basel art fair

6: Eli Broad (USA), Los Angeles-based collector and philanthropist

7: Charles Saatchi (UK), collector and gallery owner

8: Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp (UK), co-publishers of Frieze magazine and co-directors of Frieze art fair

9: Bruce Nauman (USA), American artist

10: Jeff Koons (USA), American artist

11: Damien Hirst (UK), British artist

12: Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo (USA), international co-heads of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's, New York

13: Robert Storr (USA), American curator

14: Iwan Wirth (SWITZERLAND), Swiss dealer, part of Zwirner & Wirth

15: Marian Goodman (USA), New York-based gallerist

16: David Zwirner (USA), New York gallerist

17: Gerhard Richter (GERMANY), German artist

18: Marc Glimcher (USA), New York gallerist

19: Jay Jopling (UK), owner, White Cube Gallery, London

20: Mike Kelley (USA), American artist

21: Paul Schimmel (USA), chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art , LA

22: Andreas Gursky (GERMANY), German photographer

23: Cheyenne Westphal & Tobias Meyer (USA), auctioneers, Sotheby's

24: Barbara Gladstone (USA), New York, gallerist

25: Thelma Golden (USA), executive director, Studio Museum, New York

26: Victoria Miro (UK), gallery owner, London

27: Dakis Joannou (GREECE), Greek collector

28: Richard Prince (USA), American collector

29: Don & Mera Rubell (USA), American collectors

30: Donna de Salvo, Shamim Momin & Chrissie Iles, curators (USA), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

31: Daniel Birnbaum Writer (GERMANY), director, Portikus gallery, Frankfurt

32: Steven A Cohen (USA), American hedge fund tycoon and collector

33: Michael Govan (USA), director, LA County Museum of Art

34: Simon de Pury (FRANCE), part-owner, Phillips de Pury auction house

35: Sadie Coles (UK), London-based dealer

36: Robert Gober (USA), American sculptor

37: Eugenio López (MEXICO), Mexican/US-based collector

38: Bruno Brunnet, Nicole Hackert & Philipp Haverkampf, directors, Contemporary Fine Art gallery (GERMANY), Berlin

39: Francesca von Habsburg (AUSTRIA), Austrian collector and philanthropist

40: Jeffrey Deitch (USA), New York gallerist

41: Nicholas Logsdail Founder (UK), Lisson Gallery, London

42: Thomas Hirschhorn (SWITZERLAND), Swiss artist

43: Iwona Blazwick (UK), director, Whitechapel art gallery, London

44: The Wrong Gallery (USA), New York, conceptual gallery

45: Jeff Wall (CANADA), Canadian photographer

46: Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director (UK), Serpentine gallery, London

47: Ingvild Goetz (GERMANY), German collector

48: Pierre Huyghe, (FRANCE), French artist

49: UBS Swiss (SWITZERLAND), investment bank and major art sponsor

50: Deutsche Bank, (GERMANY), German bank and major art sponsor

51: Tracey Emin (UK), British artist

52: Gilbert & George (UK), British artists

53: Dominique Levy & Robert Mnuchin (USA), New York gallerists

54: Harry Blain & Graham Southern (UK), London-based gallerists

55: Roberta Smith (USA), senior art critic, New York Times

56: Herzog & de Meuron (SWITZERLAND), Swiss architects behind Tate Modern

57: Jerry Saltz (USA), art critic, Village Voice

58: Frank Gehry (USA), American architect of the Bilbao Guggenheim

59: Javier Peres (USA), Cuban-born dealer

60: Christine Macel (FRANCE), contemporary art curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

61: Eileen Norton (USA), Los Angeles collector

62: Rosa & Carlos de la Cruz (USA), Miami collectors

63: Ralph Rugoff (UK), director, the Hayward Gallery, London

64: Max Hetzler, (GERMANY), Berlin-based gallerist

65: Miuccia Prada (ITALY), collector

66: Neo Rauch (GERMANY), German artist

67: Gerd Harry Lybke (GERMANY), German dealer

68: Carsten Höller (BELGIUM), Sweden-based Belgian-born artist, newly installed in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

69: Maureen Paley (UK), London gallerist

70: Zach Feuer (USA), New York gallerist

71: Ai Weiwei (CHINA), Chinese artist

72: Antoine de Galbert (FRANCE), French collector

73: Richard Serra (USA), American sculptor

74: Paul McCarthy (USA), American artist

75: Okwui Enwezor (USA), New York-based curator

76: William Acquavella (USA), New York gallerist

77: Matthew Marks (USA), New York gallerist

78: Michael Ringier (SWITZERLAND), Swiss media magnate

79: James Lingwood & Michael Morris (UK), co-directors, Artangel, London

80: Thomas Krens & Lisa Dennison (USA), director and deputy director, Guggenheim, New York

81: Matthew Higgs (USA), chief curator, White Columns, New York

82: Lorenz Helbling (SWITZERLAND), Swiss-born gallerist

83: David Adjaye (UK), London-based architect

84: Anita & Poju Zabludowicz (UK), London-based private collectors

85: Hou Hanru (CHINA), Chinese-born curator, based in US

86: Gavin Brown (UK-USA), British-born New York gallerist

87: Lynne Cooke (USA), curator at the Dia Art Foundation, New York

88: Anselm Kiefer (GERMANY), German artist

89: Jean-Marc Bustamante (FRANCE), French artist

90: Matthew Barney (USA), American artist

91: Rem Koolhaas (THE NETHERLANDS), Dutch architect and author

92: Ann Philbin (USA), Director, the Hammer Museum, New York

94: Anish Kapoor (UK-INDIA), Bombay-born London-based sculptor

95: Agnès b. (FRANCE), French clothing designer and gallerist

96: Luc Tuymans, (BELGIUM), Belgian artist

97: João Oliveira Rendiero (PORUGAL), art collector and chairman, Lisbon's Banco Privado Portugues

98: Takashi Murakami (JAPAN), Japanese artist

99: Cai Guo-Qiang (CHINA), Chinese artist

100: Google (USA), ubiquitous internet search engine

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