The 100 Most Powerful People in the World of Art

Tomorrow's a big day in the art world: ArtReview magazine's influential Power 100, a list of the 100 most powerful people in the art world, goes on sale.

But guess what: not only do you not have to wait, you don't even have to pay for it or even make any effort at all to see it — beyond clicking here.

Nice, eh?

For those who don't have the inclination or energy required to visit the link above, here are the top 10, from the most powerful person in the art world — artist Damien Hirst — on down:

1. Damien Hirst

2. Larry Gagosian — dealer/gallerist

3. François Pinault — owner of Christie's/collector

4. Nicholas Serota — Tate Museum director

5. Glenn D. Lowry — MoMa director

6. Eli Broad — collector/philanthropist

7. Sam Keller — Art Basel art fair director

8. Iwan Wirth — dealer/gallerist

9. Bruce Nauman — artist

10. David Zwirner — dealer/gallerist

Here's a link to Jackie Wullschlager's article, in this weekend's Financial Times, about the list and its back story and ramifications.

At the end of her article are sub–lists in which are noted the top artists and top 20 women.

Here's a link to ArtReview's website.

I have always considered the title — "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" — of Hirst's iconic 1991 work, a shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde (above), to be the best thing about it.