Sean Horton
While still in his 20s, the New York dealer began showing emerging artists in his Lower East Side gallery, Sunday. Now he has branched out to a second space, Horton Gallery, in Chelsea.
Yasmil Raymond
The new Dia Art Foundation curator has a tough act to follow in Lynne Cooke, who left for the Reina Sofía, in Madrid, last year. But Raymond proved her curatorial chops at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, with shows of such artists as Tomás Saraceno and Tino Sehgal.
Sunny Rahbar & Claudia Cellini
As Middle Eastern art takes off internationally, two intrepid women behind Dubai’s Third Line gallery are building a base for it at home. Rahbar, who was raised in Dubai, and the Italian-American Cellini show up-and-coming artists like Farhad Moshiri and just attended their first Frieze Art Fair.
João Ribas
The Portuguese-born 30-year-old recently left his post at the Drawing Center, in New York, to serve as curator of exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tirdad Zolghadr
In 2009 this tireless Tehran-born writer, co-curator of the 2005 Sharjah Biennial and documentary filmmaker added to his résumé curator of the first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion for the UAE.
Legal Power
Charles & Thomas Danziger
A+A’s Brothers in Law see themselves as transactional attorneys in the art world, but lately they have spent a lot of time rescuing collectors, dealers and museums from recession-related troubles.
Lawrence Kaye
Among Kaye’s specialties is the recovery of art stolen during the Holocaust.
Ralph Lerner
Specializing in tax and estate matters, Lerner has built a powerful list of collector clients, including Steven A. Cohen.
John Silberman
The most prominent New York attorney representing artists, Silberman recently added the Dan Flavin estate to his client list, which also includes Richard Serra, the de Kooning estate and collectors.
Ronald Spencer
An attorney with the New York-based firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn, Spencer wields serious art world power derived largely from his representation of both the Andy Warhol Authentication Board and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Peter Stern
He counsels artists, collectors, dealers and museums but also plies the nonprofit side; after serving 10 years as chairman of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, he became chairman emeritus this past July.
Power Exhibitions
"Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures," the L.A. County Museum of Art
Linking political and cultural systems, this landmark survey of postwar German art showed the dramatic differences and surprising parallels between art production in East and West Germany.
"The Generational: Younger than Jesus," the New Museum, NY
This inaugural triennial took the pulse of artists under 33 and posed the question: Can any artist have as big an impact as, well, Jesus?
"Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice," the Boston Museum of Fine Art
The highly regarded show, assembled in partnership with the Louvre, traced four decades of feverish competition among three passionate painters as they explored the sumptuous possibilities of the newly embraced medium of oil.
"James Ensor," MoMA, NY
This retrospective thrilled viewers with its beautiful yet macabre paintings, reacquainting the world with how the Belgian artist helped define modernity.
"Jeff Koons Versailles," France
It’s hard to say what Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would have made of a giant lobster hanging in the royal apartments, but a kitsch kinship emerges between Koons’s oversized pop symbols and the palace’s baroque grandeur.
"Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Whether an example of 17th-century voyeurism or an homage to the working class, the Dutch master’s most celebrated painting, owned by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, joined five Vermeers from the Met’s collection for a recession-friendly miniexhibition that drew viewers in droves.
"Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction," The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
The radicalism of the American modernist’s early abstractions has stunned viewers more familiar with the flowers and skulls she painted in New Mexico.
Save to Del.icio.us
Digg this
