There are powerful people who love art, support art, buys art, deals art, breathes art, makes art etc. and the guys and gals at Art & Auction magazine listed 100 of them. We love this list!
Who pulls the art world’s strings? Power has an obvious allure, but it is the people who wield it who really fascinate us. Those in the art world are a multifaceted bunch, patrons and players, traditionalists and trendsetters, brash market makers and behind-the-scenes brokers. Our annual guide seeks to catalog these individuals: the auctioneer with the inside line on old Chinese collections; the Old Masters dealer responding to a shifting marketplace by embracing art fairs and Jeff Koons; the curator who divides his time between nurturing the contemporary-art scene in Iran and ferrying modern masterpieces out of the country.[Artinfo]
