The list is still very West centred, only two Chinese artists Ai Weiwei (47) and Cai Guo-Qiang (69) and one project The Long March (93). In any case article below:
01. Science (Damien Hirst)
02. Larry Gagosian
03. Kathy Halbreich
04. Sir Nicholas Serota
05. Iwan Wirth
06. Jay Jopling
07. David Zwirner
08. François Pinault
09. Jasper Johns
10. Eli Broad
11. Jeff Koons
12. Steven A. Cohen
13. Daniel Birnbaum
14. Charles Saatchi
15. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo
16. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal
17. Marian Goodman
18. Gerhard Richter
19. Richard Prince
20. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin
21. Michael Govan
22. Marc Glimcher
23. Annette Schönholzer, Marc Spiegler
24. Alfred Pacquement
25. Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp
26. Barbara Gladstone
27. Matthew Marks
28. Takashi Murakami
29. Agnes Gund
30. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan
31. Dakis Joannou
32. Bernard Arnault
33. Richard Serra
34. Sadie Coles
35. Julia Peyton-Jones & Hans Ulrich Obrist
36. Donna De Salvo
37. Simon de Pury
38. Don & Mera Rubell
39. Ann Philbin
40. Paul Schimmel
41. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
42. Michael Ringier
43. Jose, Alberto & David Mugrabi
44. Chris Kennedy
45. Bruce Nauman
46. Cy Twombly
47. Ai Weiwei
48. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe
49. Andreas Gursky
50. Olafur Eliasson
51. Harry Blain & Graham Southern
52. Jeff Wall
53. Peter Doig
54. Roman Abramovich & Daria Zhukova
55. Bruno Brunnet, Nicole Hackert, Philipp Haverkampf
56. Marlene Dumas
57. Gavin Brown
58. Victoria Miro
59. Mitchell Rales
60. Yvon Lambert
61. Mike Kelley
62. Paul McCarthy
63. Banksy
64. Emmanuel Perrotin
65. William Acquavella
66 .Lucian Freud
67. Victor Pinchuk
68. Maurizio Cattelan
69. Cai Guo Qiang
70. Maureen Paley
71. Roberta Smith
72. Peter Schjeldahl
73. Thelma Golden
74. Ralph Rugoff
75. Robert Gober
76. Iwona Blazwick
77. Richard Armstrong
78. Massimiliano Gioni
79. Jerry Saltz
80. Reena Spaulings/Bernadette Corporation
81. Louise Bourgeois
82. Cindy Sherman
83. Okwui Enwezor
84. Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
85. Shaun Caley Regen
86. Liam Gillick
87. Miuccia Prada
88. John Baldessari
89. Francesca von Habsburg
90. Christian Boros
91. Nicholas Logsdail
92. Subodh Gupta
93. The Long March Project
94. Paula Cooper
95. Peter Nagy
96. Casey Reas
97. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz
98. Guy & Myriam Ullens
99. Laurent Le Bon
100. Thomas Kinkade
Entrants on the Power 100 list are judged on the following four criteria, each of which carries a 25 percent weighting.
1. Genuine influence over the production of art: entrants must exert influence over the type, style and shape of contemporary art being produced in the previous 12 months.
2. Influence on an international scale: as the list is international, entrants must exert influence on a global scale rather than as big fish in small-to-medium ponds.
3. Financial clout: entrants are judged on the extent to which they have shaped, moulded or dominated the art market, whether as artists, dealers or collectors.
4. Activity within the last 12 months: entrants are judged on having actually done something during the period September 2007 to August 2008. It's not enough to sit on your powerful behind.
The 2008 edition of the Power 100 marks the second time Science/Damien Hirst has made it to number one (2005 was the first). In a year that began with the setting of new auction records for contemporary art and ended in global financial crisis, Hirst overshadowed and outshone, becoming the first artist to bring his work directly to auction (at Sotheby's London in September), and grossing £111 million in the process.
The top 10 also includes Kathy Halbreich, the first woman to appear on her own in the top 10. Ranked third, behind Hirst and gallerist Larry Gagosian, she is the newly appointed Associate Director of MoMA, New York, and the first of 32 women on this year's ranking of art world players in a list traditionally dominated by men.
As the global credit contagion spreads, financial institutions take a tumble in the art world, with both UBS and Deutsche Bank, longtime key art sponsors, ranked 62 and 63 respectively in 2007, falling off the Power 100 in 2008. In another sign of troubled times, a 'flight to quality' has seen the stock of the most established artists rising strongly. Lucian Freud (66) is included on the list for the first time this year, after achieving the highest price paid at auction for work by a living artist, while Jasper Johns (9), a veteran of the Power 100, breaks into the top 10, with a major retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Other artists with momentum include Takashi Murakami (28), a superbrand in hot pursuit of Damien Hirst's business model, coming in at 61 places above his 2007 ranking for a year that saw a major exhibition of his work, including a Louis Vuitton store selling Murakami's own branded products, travel across the US and draw record numbers of museum goers. The list also includes the first street artist, Banksy (63), whose popularity and rising artworld presence have been credited with inspiring Tate to stage their first street-art show this past summer.
Ongoing artistic and financial strength in emerging markets has seen new listings for collectors Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova (54) and a strong rise by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (69, from 99 in 2006), with first-time appearances by the Beijing-based Long March Project (93) and Delhi-based gallerist Peter Nagy (95).
The seventh annual ranking of the most powerful players in the contemporary art world – the ArtReview Power 100 - is published in ArtReview's November issue.
The 2008 list of the contemporary art world's top 100 artists, gallerists, collectors, and curators was compiled by ArtReview staff in consultation with a global network of contributing editors and an invited international panel, including media artist and newly appointed director of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda, art critic and TV presenter Matthew Collings, and architect and professor Greg Lynn (recipient of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale).
Entrants are judged on four criteria: genuine influence over the production of art, international weighting, art-market relevance and their contribution to the art world over the past 12 months.
ArtReview is a defining voice in the contemporary art scene, a monthly magazine published since 1949 and distributed throughout Europe, the US and Asia. Featuring profiles, news, reviews, city guides and specially commissioned artworks by established and emerging artists from around the globe, ArtReview is essential reading for a global community of artists and gallerists, collectors, curators – and indeed for anyone with an interest in art.
