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artreview’s top 100 power figures in art (2005)

art, bourdieu, contemporary art, power – dusan/nts – October 7, 2010 § 0

2005 TOP 10
1. Damien Hirst, artist, Uk
2. Larry Gagosian, dealer/ gallerist US
3. Francois Pinault, owner of Christie?s /collector, France
4. Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate director, Uk
5. Glenn D Lowry MoMA director, US
6. Eli Broad, collector/philanthropist, US-LA
7. Sam Keller, Art Basel director, Switzerland
8. Iwan Wirth, dealer/gallerist, Hayser and Wirth, Switzerland
9. Bruce Nauman, artist US
10. David Zwirner, dealer/gallerist, US

damien hirst
artist, born 65 in Bristol, 2 men I ge, father car salesman, school in Leeds, works for 2yrs at building sites, 89 art degree at Goldsmiths College London, worked in mortuary during studies, 88 curates student exhib Freeze in E London attended by Saatchi, Rosenthal and Serota, 92 shark at yBa exhib, 92 Saatchi offers him to fund whatever artwork he wants to make, regular Soho’s Groucho Club visitor, early 90s – 02 cocaine and alcohol addict, banned from Groucho, marries Californian Maia Norman (now 2 kids), 95 Turner Prize, 98 opens restaurant Pharmacy in Notting Hill, 98 records a World Cup tribute pop single Vandaloo with Fat Les (w/ actor Keith Allen and Blur bassist Alex James) and reaches #2 in charts, 98 publish autobiography "I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now", 00 100.000 people visits his show at Gagosian in 12 weeks and all the works are sold, since 00 spends most time at remote farmhouse in north Devon, 03 good friend Joe Strummer (ex bass of The Clash) dies, founds Strummerville charity to help young musicians, 03 after retrospective at Saatchi’s: "I’m not Charles Saatchi’s barrel-organ monkey … He only recognises art with his wallet … he believes he can affect art values with buying power, and he still believes he can do it.", intr in Christianity, 03 Pharmacy closes down, 04 in fire at Saatchi’s 17 Hirst’s artworks are destroyed, 04 new agent: Gagosian, 04 solds shark for $12mil to Steve Cohen who then donates it to MoMA (Serota tried to acquire it to Tate and also gov was asked to fund)
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/H/hirst/

larry gagosian
art dealer and gallerist, aka GoGo, born in LA, opened largest private gallery in London 04, Gagosian Gallery *96 has 5 branches (2x Manhattan, 1x Beverly Hills, 2x London), ArtReview’s top art businessman since 04, in 03 US gov took lawsuit against him for taxes
http://www.gagosian.com/

francois pinault
born 37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Pinault

nicholas serota
dir of Tate, curator, born 46, 7 cauac I ta, son of labour edu minister, studied economics, then history of art, 73 marries ballet dancer Angela Beveridge, 88- Tate Gallery director, 97 marries head of Tate’s info dept Teresa Gleadowe (affair since late 80s)
http://www.answers.com/topic/nicholas-serota

glenn d lowry
dir of MoMA in NYC, born 54 in NYC