Power Exhibitions
“Archive Fever,” ICP
Francis Bacon, the Tate
Axel Vervoordt’s “Academia,” École des Beaux-Arts
“Picasso’s Marie-Thérèse”
Acquavella + Vallois, Paris Biennale

Power Partnerships
Ai Weiwei + Herzog & de Meuron
Gisela Capitain + Friedrich Petzel
Eva-Maria Häusler + Peter Vetsch
Henriette Huldisch + Shamim Momin
Eugenio López Alonso + Carlos Slim Helú
Louvre + Denver Art Museum
Mallett + Louise-Anne Comeau + Geoffrey Monge
Anupam + Lekha Poddar
DESTE, Ellipse, Magasin 3, La Maison Rouge
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe)

Curatorial Shuffle
Richard Armstrong → Guggenheim
Thomas Campbell ↑ the Met
G. Wayne Clough → Smithsonian
Guy Cogeval → Musée d’Orsay
Gary Garrels → SFMOMA
Dorothy Kosinski → Phillips Collection
Mary Levkoff → National Gallery, U.S.
Nicholas Penny → National Gallery, U.K.
Ann Temkin ↑ MOMA
Philippe Vergne → Dia

Power Couples
Christo + Jeanne-Claude
Gilbert & George
Alison Gingeras + Piotr Uklan´ski
Ilya + Emilia Kabakov

Power Failure
Arbus sale at Phillips
Ralph Esmerian
Carlton
John Hobbs
the Kaufmann House
Tom Krens
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
Lawrence Salander

Perennial Power
Louise Bourgeois
Jan Krugier
Oscar Niemeyer
I. M. Pei
Albert Sack

Power Purse Strings
Eli Broad
Leonard Lauder

Power Brokers
Lisa Dennison
Franck Giraud, Lionel Pissarro
Philippe Ségalot
Andre Ruzhnikov

New Art-Fair Power
Daniel Hug (Art Cologne)
Tobias Wong
Aric Chen (100% Design Shanghai)
Pierre Moos (Parcours des Mondes)
Nick Korniloff (Art Miami)

Power Moves
Hernan Bas → Lehmann Maupin
Marlene Dumas → David Zwirner
Subodh Gupta → Hauser & Wirth
Annie Leibovitz → Phillips de Pury
Raqib Shaw → White Cube
Zhang Huan → White Cube

Power Overload
Banksy
Damien Hirst
Gagosian Gallery
Jeff Koons
Takashi Murakam

Asia Major
Gisèle Croës
Giuseppe Eskenazi
Richard Littleton
Vanderven & Vanderven

Building Power
Allford, Hall, Monaghan, Morris (Saatchi Gallery, London)
Aranda/Lasch (Design Miami)
Richard Gluckman (Pace Beijing)
Steven Learner (Haunch of Venison, N. Y.)

Buying Power
Roman Abramovich
Bernard Arnault
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
Farhad Farjam + François Pinault
Victor Pinchuk
Viktor Vekselberg
David Walsh

Power Lots (compiled before the November auctions)
Bacon, Triptych ($86m)
Monet, Le bassin aux nympheas ($80m)
Léger, Étude pour “La femme en bleu,” ($39.2m)
Freud, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping ($33.6m)
Munch, Girls on a Bridge ($30.8m)

Passages
Pierre Berès
Hildy Beyeler
Anne d’Harnoncourt
Enrico Donati
Anne-Sophie Duval
Angus Fairhurst
Patricia Faure
Robert Rauschenberg
Ileana Sonnabend
John Weber
Alec Wildenstein

Power Crimes
Guggenheim Bilbao CFO Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea
$100 million art theft, E. G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Collector/suspected tax evader Vladimir Nekrasov

Power Transformers
Philippe de Montebello → NYU
Robert Fitzpatrick → Haunch of Venison
Leng Lin → Pace Beijing
John Richardson → Gagosian
David Ross → Albion

Power Fakers
Furniture restorer Dennis Buggins
Art forgers George, Olive
Shaun Greenhalgh
Unknown maker of phony Coptic sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum
Christian Parisot, accused of faking Jeanne Hébuterne drawings

Power Plays
Edward Albee’s drama Occupant, about the sculptor Louise Nevelson
Elmgreen & Dragset’s one-act Drama Queens
Choreographer Martha Clark’s Garden of Earthly Delights

Power of Tradition
Richard Feigen
Sam Fogg
Richard Green
Ben Janssens
Fabrizio Moretti
William Noortman
Emanuele
Leonardo Piacenti
Johnny Van Haeften

Power Career Moments
Wendell Castle
Mary Heilmann
Liza Lou
Thomas Nozkowski

Power Buzz
10th Havana Biennial
53rd Venice Biennale
“Younger than Jesus”

"Power Lists" originally appeared in the December 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's December 2008 Table of Contents.