Power 2012 110 2012who is up, down, or ready to make a move? This year has been, to a large extent, about the consolidation of power—witness the debut of two new Frieze fairs, the addition of Art HK to the Art Basel fold, the opening of new Gagosian branches in Rio and outside Paris, the hegemony of brand names like Warhol POWER and Richter at auction, and the forging of such super-alliances as Connery, Pissarro, Seydoux. The art fair, for better or worse, is now the reigning transactional format for the interna- tional collecting class. Yet that hasn’t quelled the drive for expansion by leading dealers around the globe. As New York titans like David Zwirner and Pace size up the territory across the pond, Emmanuel Perrotin forges westward to New York, and Pearl Lam retakes Hong Kong, the gallery world grows more bifurcated between international behemoths and striving independents who bring us fresh talent. In auctions, aside from continued growth in the East and the nosebleed heights achieved by masterworks ever dwindling in supply, the main story is the consolidation of market power within the houses via private sales. But the surge toward certain loci leaves interesting vacancies—and opportunities—in its wake. Among this year’s most compelling powers are those already aiming to fill those voids. After all, the most interesting moments in the art world come when the balance of power shifts, exposing cracks and rifts. This list catalogues the people, be they dealers, directors,

curators, auctioneers, or patrons, who are effecting and exploiting these changes. — tHE editors

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blouinARTINFO.COM | december 2012 Art+Auction POWER 112 2012 Wang yannan ti A expanded thedepartment to includea in thesummers of 2010 and2011, Berman the MiddleEast, andafter successful sales traction withaneagerclass of buyers from heads. The nichecategory quicklyfound Orientalist department, whichhenow Berman helpedlaunch its four-year-old painting at theParis auction houseArtcurial, Formerly aspecialistin19th-century O Francis Bacon, andLucian Freud. sold important works by Frank Auerbach, Sotheby’s Europe, Barker has sourced and Since then,as thedeputy chairmanof Brothers crashed inSeptember 2008. Forever auction onthesameday Lehman the $200millionBeautiful InsideMyHead restaurant, Pharmacy. Barker alsooversaw 2004 saleof items from DamienHirst’s instant cred by organizing theimpressive the charismatic auctioneer earnedalmost don in2001 to embrace contemporary art, Imp/mod department at Sotheby’s Lon- After famously jettisoning hispostinthe O l l ivi iv er uc er B B arker erma n o n n POWER

lesser-known 20th-century Orientalists. last December, makingroom to promote second saleinthewinter, beginning altogether at $100million. of onlineauctions andprivate sales valued inventory through amultiyear string with theWarhol Foundation to liquidate its at theWhitney Biennial—andtherecent deal Bess—who wasfeatured simultaneously a sellingexhibition of the work of Forrest sales. Amongherfirst innovations were an expanded role infast-growing private announced that Cappellazzo would assume of that success, Christie’slast year outpaced rival Sotheby’s. Ontheheels department at Christie’ssubstantially Brett Gorvy, thepostwar and contemporary Under Cappellazzo’s joint leadership with A of 53percent over theprevious year. private sales last year—landmark growth revenue that Christie’sannounced from contributed to the$661.5 millionin of thebusiness. Hisdiscreet transactions presides over anever more important arm Boucheron in2010, Paris-based Brunie since makingthejumpfrom jeweler in Christie’sjewelry andgemsdepartment The international director of private sales Ju the housein1969 as ajewelry specialist. What’s next? “China,”says Curiel,whojoined Curiel calls “incredible butnot sustainable.” 126 percent from 2009,anincrease that sales intheregion totaled $835million,up beyond myimagination.” In2011 Christie’s he says, “thegrowth of themarket has been years agoto preside over Christie’sAsia. Still, player whenhemoved to HongKong two Curiel knew Asia was emerging as a major F Tianzhu Free Trade Zone inthecapital city. contemporary Chinese art, insidethefuture rights, includingsales of modernand withmainlandaccess, grants exclusive deal, whichmakes Sotheby’s thefirst foreign Sotheby’s BeijingAuction Company. The owned BeijingGeHuaArt Company to create there withajoint venture withthestate- it hadfinallybroken into theauction market land. The house announced in September that long-awaited pushonto theChinese main- The CEO of Sotheby’s Asia has overseen a K ra e m l vin C y C i n e n- co appell V h i s in in Cu ce g r azzo n i el t B r uni e Art+Auction

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The Acquavella family respectively. Paris husband-and-wife dealers Since Acquavella Galleries’ founding in 1921 Lionel and Sandrine Pissarro, fresh from by the late Nicholas Acquavella, the art- the recently disbanded private dealership Ema m nuEL di Donna dealing enterprise has been a family affair, Giraud Pissarro Ségalot, joined the duo with son William Acquavella now heading to create arguably the dream team of the firm. The younger generation, namely private-sale professionals, with unparalleled Eleanor, Nicholas, and Alexander, has reener- access to the elite and secretive club gized the 91-year-old gallery and assured its of billionaire collectors, from Gulf region stability for decades to come. The Acqua- sheikhs to Russian oligarchs. vellas stand out among family art dynasties, maintaining a kind of old-world atmosphere Emmanuel di Donna in their East 79th Street town house while Since teaming up with Harry Blain in late sharpening that blue-chip profile with newer 2010 to form the secondary-market liol ne pissarro, blood, representing contemporary painters art dealership Blain Di Donna, the 40-year- stephane connery, alongside midcentury icons like James old former vice chair of the Impressionist sandrine pissarro, & Rosenquist, long a member of the stable. and modern department at Sotheby’s thomas seydoux has mounted a series of specialty solo C onnery, Pissarro, Seydoux exhibitions by a host of Surrealist masters A new enterprise that aroused instant in the gallery’s elegant Carlyle Hotel Rolodex envy in the world of private advis- space. But these carefully researched and ing sprang up this past summer following difficult-to-source exhibitions are the departures of Impressionist/modern accessory to the larger mission of crafting ondon rainmakers Stephane Connery and Thomas private sales to international clients L Seydoux from Sotheby’s and Christie’s, who by and large prefer the assured anonymity of discreet buying and selling. lleries, 2012 Ga 114 be n n jA ssens reen Sam Fogg G rd The veteran British Old Masters dealer a ich kicked off the year in New York, where he R presented a rare American exhibition of lgort: lgort: late 15th-century panel paintings at Richard E

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the Virgin andChildfor $1.2million. where hesolda15th-century paneldepicting and theBiennaledes Antiquaires inParis, the Asian market for European OldMasters; Shanghai Fine Jewellery andArt Fair, testing York, gets around: healsoparticipated inthe with spaces inFlorence, London, and ranks of thetraditional fair. Andthedealer, to usherup-and-coming galleries into the tefaf dominated fair landscape. Herecently formed for OldMasters inthecontemporary art– Moretti isworking hard to findaplace of theinaugural Frieze Masters, 36-year-old executive committee andan earlychampion As theyoungest memberof Maastricht’s F a private gallery inMeggen,nearLucerne. to Switzerland, where they planto open In 2012 Landau andhiswife, Alice, emigrated inventory at upwards of $25millionapop. upper echelonsby snappingupworks for Landau Fine Art maintains its place inthe for top examples by suchartists grow thinner, Dubuffet, andGiacometti. As the sources mid 20th-century masters suchas Picasso, Landau has focused onworks by earlyto Since launching hisMontreal space in1987, R abr obert ’s young dealers committee, whichseeks i z i o L M a n orett da u i N ew

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Lawrence Benenson behind other facets of the art world as well. A recently recruited moma board member, Last spring he and his wife, Debra, announced the real estate scion is an executive vice a gift of $48 million toward a new arts center president at Benenson Capital Partners who at Dartmouth College, and in October Black aids various charitable groups, including the acquired art-book publisher Phaidon Press. community-based North Star Fund; his father was storied modern-art collector Charles Len Blavatnik Benenson. Decidedly eclectic and untainted by The London-based Russian-American billion- advisers, Benenson’s collecting taste ranges aire who heads Warner Music Group is a major Far ncois Pinault from important American historical docu- benefactor to many of the world’s largest ments, including a copy of the Emancipation museums, including the British Museum, Tate, Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln, to Britain’s National Portrait Gallery, and moma, major blue-chip artworks like the Henri Matisse in New York. That and his taste for top-of- del del a

bronze Le Serf, 1900–03, and a wide-ranging the-market material has led him to appear on F a rt

roster of emerging and recently lionized lists of rumored buyers whenever a significant a artists, from Mark Lombardi to Kehinde Wiley. anonymous sale takes place at auction, as was hite; M

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a Leon Black came down on Munch’s The Scream—though, L eaWREnc Benenson The New York private-equity giant continues for once, the story turned out to be untrue. n; Joshu to make headlines as the buyer of record- a pulverizing masterworks of art. The latest: that George Economou 1895 pastel version of Munch’s The Scream, Known for his impeccable timing and risk-

acquired at Sotheby’s in May for a staggering taking deals in the world of dry-bulk shipping, trick McMull Pa $120 million; it is currently on view at moma, the M.I.T.–trained engineer and CEO of Dry- ; LLC . o

2012 where Black serves on the board of trustees. Ships has followed a similar pattern in col- C 116 This year, Black threw his considerable fortune lecting art. Since amassing more than 2,500 oss & oss R

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In the ’60s, the recently graduated lawyers Ca Hecilda and Sergio Fadel spent a lot of enenson enenson

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daughter, Marta, have been dedicated to Athens; ction,

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which now numbers around 3,800 works— ou at museums in Brazil and abroad. m ono c E Dimitri Mavromatis eorge eorge The Paris-based collector has an insatiable G t: t: appetite for high-end lots at auction, as f le confirmed by his October phone purchase, at m ro Sotheby’s London, of Yves Klein’s blue mono- f chrome RE 9-1, from 1961, for £3.7 million lockwise lockwise

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Art+Auction december 2012 | blouinARTINFO.COM portrait Femme assise, robe bleue, 1939, bought for £18 million ($29 million) at ki ran nadar Christie’s London in June 2011. Though he bids anonymously, word of his purchases always gets out through various dealer friends who understand his amusement at being tagged as a somewhat mercurial buyer at auction.

Kiran Nadar In June 2010 Nadar made headlines when she bought S.H. Raza’s 1983 painting Saurashtra for a record-breaking £2,393,250 ($3.5 million) at Christie’s London. Earlier this year the New Delhi–based Nadar unveiled her most ambitious acquisition yet—Subodh Gupta’s 26- ton, 30-foot-high Line of Control—at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (knma), India’s first privately owned museum, and certainly the only one located in a mall. knma, which opened in January 2011, has an illustrious collection of some 700 modern and contemporary works.

Francois Pinault The omnivorous collector, Christie’s owner, and French luxury-goods tycoon is ever active: Take, for instance, his reported purchase of the $3 million Rudolf Stingel from Paula Cooper

at the Art Basel VIP preview in June. So, too, 2012 are his duo of Venice museums, the Punta della 117 Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, the latter of which recently expanded its programming to include two exhibitions each year to cater to non- Biennale-bound visitors and locals. Last August it debuted a group show titled “Voice of Images,” featuring works by Zoe Leonard, Bruce Nauman, and Erin Shirreff, among others. POWER Wilbur Ross The billionaire modern-art collector turned heads in June when he paid $11.3 million for René Magritte’s Les jours gigantesques, 1928, at Christie’s Impressionist and modern sale in London. He augments his Surrealist collection with modern Chinese art and is a fan of photographer Liu Bolin and Chinese ink painter Liu Guosong. He also serves on the boards of the Whitney Museum and the Japan Society.

Dean Valentine Though the Los Angeles media mogul and Hammer Museum trustee went to court to dispute royalties claimed by Mark Grotjahn— this past February he settled the case elhi

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P aOLA Antonelli to bring the art world to her door again. As senior curator of architecture and design at She will be making her New York debut with New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Antonelli a Meatpacking-district high-rise. has organized some of the museum’s most talked-about exhibitions and is currently rein- francois Laffanour stalling the contemporary design collections This year the Paris-based, Algerian-born design for a debut early next year. Antonelli has also dealer celebrated 30 years at his location encouraged moma to expand into new collecting on the Rue de Seine in the St.-Germain- categories, including video games, of which des-Prés neighborhood. Laffanour’s Downtown Jane n e Gang the museum acquired a dozen this year. In Gallery specializes in the avant-garde, and October the Italian-born design expert was through the years he has championed the appointed the first-ever director of research work of 20th-century architects and designers and development at the institution. such as Carlo Mollino, George Nakashima, Charlotte Perriand, and Jean Prouvé, raising Jeanne Gang them to blue-chip rank. The 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and principal of Chicago’s Studio Gang Architects Pearl Lam has had a banner year among artier quar- In May the Chinese contemporary-art dealer ters: A midcareer retrospective of her work returned to her native Hong Kong to open Ann aBELLE Selldorf opened this fall at the Art Institute of Chica- a gallery in the city’s prestigious Pedder Build-

go, and her sleek, airy design for the city’s ing. The homecoming—which she inaugurated nd a

newly launched Expo Chicago art fair is sure with an exhibition of Chinese contemporary oll H abstract painting curated by scholar Gao obin Minglu—was a signal of both Lam’s wide influ- R x; u a

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out of her apartment in London. Next year Far ncois Laffanour B she’ll inaugurate a new gallery in Singapore. hu Jinshi; Yves Macaux Z ris;

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century Viennese design. Among the most DOWNTOWN successful design dealers at this year’s lerie

Maastricht fair, Macaux sold a 1903 Josef Ga nd Hoffmann lime-oaked table (for $1.4 million) Pearl Lam a that hadn’t been seen publicly since the early lerin 1980s. This September Macaux set up tem- C rie porary shop in Paris, mounting an exhibition of a Viennese design on the Rue de Seine that n; M ffma

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that specializes in post-1945 international ; f p design, has stepped up to fill the void m chi left by the recent closure of Moss. Founders S n Meyers and Snyderman have contributed to a teb s some of the field’s major recent museum E t: t: f exhibitions—moma’s “Century of the Child” le among them—and the duo is also charging m ro headlong into emerging markets, participating f in Design Days Dubai and cornering the lockwise lockwise

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cutouts that brought light inside. Los Angeles gallery, featuring distinctive saw thecompletion of Perry Rubenstein’s Speed, inLouisville. This past summer Tyler Museumof Art, inEast Texas; andthe include theHarvard Art Museums;the among hiscredits. Current cultural clients galleries at theArt Institute of Chicago Museum, andnumerous new andrenovated the ClarkArt Institute, theGrand Rapids Art master-planning museumprojects, with Architecture has carved outaspecialty in The Bangkok-born principalof wHY Ku a stately 18th-century Georgian town house. of white cubes installed seamlessly within an elegant, tri-level, 3,300-square-foot series also handledZwirner’snew London flagship— oriented Frieze Masters inOctober. Selldorf for theinaugural edition of thehistorically o the f oldandnew withatent layout anddesign lapat N ew Yorker to strike therightbalance

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Manfredi della Gherardesca expansion, overseeing its October launch The Florence-born Count Manfredi heads of a showy new venue located in the west the London-based art advisory MDG Fine Arts. wing of the Royal Academy. With impressive credentials ranging from a long stint as a Citigroup private-banking P aSCAL de Sarthe art adviser to serving as chairman The dealer and his wife, Sylvie, started of Sotheby’s Italy, della Gherardesca is a small gallery in Paris in 1977; they moved both aristocratic jet-setter and hardworking to New York in 1981. Two years ago consultant. And he’s not lacking a they decamped to Hong Kong after having sense of humor: Last May, after paying built up considerable business in that region $1,650,500 for ’s Awakening, for 30 years. With eclectic tastes ranging 2007, a butterfly-encrusted and gloss- from Impressionism to postwar masters paint tondo, at Sotheby’s New York, he to contemporary photographers like David characterized it as “playroom decoration.” LaChapelle, the de Sarthes have not quit New York entirely—son Vincent now Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst represents the family business stateside. The gallerist and art adviser has long been regarded as one of the most powerful people Eykyn Maclean on the London art scene. After working Once they departed Christie’s as co-heads of at Gagosian for 10 years, Dent-Brocklehurst the firm’s Impressionist and modern art took a job in Moscow advising billionaire department in 2005, Christopher Eykyn Roman Abramovich on his collection and and Nicholas Maclean instantly became fa- curating Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Center miliar figures on the other side of the auction for Contemporary Art. In 2010 she returned podium, bidding for a few top clients. They to London to lead Gagosian rival Pace’s U.K. opened their eponymous gallery in New York 2012 120 POWER

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in 2006 and launched a London space in Mayfair in February. Organizing mostly loan exhibitions, the private dealers in Impression- ist and 20th-century European and American art have attracted clients with their studi- ously composed exhibitions of art-market giants, including Matisse, Twombly, and Warhol. ris. opposite: steve benisty steve opposite: ris. Pa P aSCAL De Sarthe L arry GaGOSian The dealer has said the sun never sets on his errotin, errotin, P empire, and this year may prove him right:

lerie confirmed its place as the Ga largest art dealership in the world this fall nd a when the gallerist opened his 12th space, a

relli sprawling Jean Nouvel–designed venue at Le a icc Bourget airport, outside Paris. And despite Z e m controversy surrounding his global Damien u a Hirst spot-painting exhibition, as well as legal uill G karste n Greve trouble over allegedly illegitimate sales, the n; a art-market titan is poised for another big year: He has hinted at plans for three new venues, in Hong Kong, London, and Brazil. trick McMull Pa

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Ga Victoria GelfAnd- in 2007 and 2008, Gelfand-Magalhaes spent 121 magalhaes much of this year preparing for the gallery’s llery; llery;

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Pa $130 million presentation at ArtRio. The ven- ture was, by all accounts, among the gallery’s Sean Kelly nders; most successful to date, and if Gagosian After 12 years in Chelsea, the British-born Sa follows through on his rumored plans to open dealer moved in October to a 22,000-square- ield- f a permanent space there, Gelfand-Magalhaes foot, two-floor gallery smack in the middle of reen

G would be the logical choice to lead it. New York’s developing Hudson Yards area. POWER The new venue—three times the size of Kelly’s othy othy M arc GlIMCHER m i

T Marc Glimcher former space—easily accommodates the The son of Pace founder Arne Glimcher gallery’s rapidly growing stable of 24 artists, llery; llery; represents the super-gallery’s future. Now six of whom were added in the last year. Among Ga n a president, Marc has overseen the acquisition the newcomers are painter Kehinde Wiley si

go of seemingly endless new talent (conceptual and photographer Alec Soth. Also, Terrence Ga artist Adam Pendleton and photographer Koh is joining the roster of illustrious perfor-

reve; reve; Lee Friedlander are two big names who joined mance artists, which includes Tehching Hsieh G this year), as well as growth at home and and Marina Abramovic´ , cementing the dealer’s rsten rsten around the globe. With the four-year-old Beijing reputation as a market-maker in the field. Ka space going strong, the gallery expanded Kelly is a pioneer in making the ephemeral Mollie dent- lerie this fall to London and to a fourth New York medium both collectible and profitable.

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t: t: In the business since his 20s, Greve opened Western art stars like Sophie Calle, Olafur f his first gallery in Cologne in 1973 with an ex- Eliasson, and Marlene Dumas in Japan,

top le top hibition of Yves Klein. The German dealer now in addition to homegrown talents like Ryoji m operates galleries in Cologne, Paris, and St. Ikeda, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Tabaimo— Moritz. Along the way he picked up top-quality continues to dominate the national art scene postwar artists, among them Louise Bourgeois, from her perch in Ginza. Lately, her profile ockwise Fro L arRY GaGOSIAn John Chamberlain, and Jean Dubuffet, as well is growing elsewhere in the region too: as younger, midcareer artists such as Adam Koyanagi was a much-touted first-time ountercl C Fuss, Yiorgos Kordakis, and Claire Morgan. exhibitor at this year’s ever-growing Art HK.

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in 199 in its 9,000-square-foot Islington space. and ChrisOfili’s “to take andto give” & Dragset’s playful “Harvest” installation played hostat thesametimeto Elmgreen based gallery Cheim&Read. The gallery Masters, incooperation with photographs by WilliamEggleston at Frieze including anexhibition of never-before-seen Miro atypically strong slate of offerings, N such artists as Sarah Sze, DougAitken, Alice influential contemporary-art dealers, showing on Cork Street, Miro isoneof London’s most Almost 30years after openingatinygallery V plans thisfall for asecond Los Angeles space. area of Los Angeles inJanuary, heannounced and, after expanding to theWest Hollywood Johns, and contemporary artists, includingJasper represents ahostof well-known postwar ational Art Fair (now theArmory Show), he One of thefounders of theGramercy Intern- ahead of narrow commercial interests. a reputation for placingdedication to artists d’Offay Gallery inLondon, Marks has earned Since openinghisown gallery in M to Bharti Kher—announced plansto expand market stars like ChihoAoshima and mented hisprogram withrisingemerging- and Takashi Murakami andrecently supple- contemporary-art giants Maurizio Cattelan the 44-year-old Perrotin—who represents houses ’sAsia venue. InOctober Hong Kong inthesleekhigh-risethat also unveiled an8,000-square-foot gallery in fewer than18months. This past May, Perrotin two new locations onas manycontinents in The ambitiousFrench galleristislaunching E in thegallery’s international programming. downtown outpostwillplay asignificant role Houseago amongthem),andthePayot-run Johnson, of planning process (rising stars like Rashid N once housedChelseahot spot theRoxy. square-foot homebase inthebuildingthat Upper East Sidetown houseto a24,700- megagallery expands beyond its modest exponentially inJanuary, whenthevenerable partner andVPwillseehisdominiongrow The sprightlySwiss-born Hauser & Wirth M maintains four exhibition spaces in mma i eel, andYayoi Kusama. Autumn brought ew artists have joinedthefold duringthe atthe arc ctor N ew York’s Upper East Sidein2013. 1 after stints at Pace andtheAnthony P nu N i a a w M an Goldin,andEllsworth Kelly. Marks y el Mi o t P ro arks N errot ew York, andL.A.–based Thomas in N Art+Auction ew York– N ew York N ew York

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time building onWest 22ndStreet in of apurpose-built30,000-square-foot now slated for earlynext year, theunveiling location, inLondon’s Mayfair district, and, was followed inOctober by hisfirst overseas hours-long queuefor entry inJanuary. That Space artist DougWheelerthat attracted an claimed “Infinity Environment” by Lightand expansion plans.First, there was theac- behind both hisgallery program andhis The D Pavilion of Art+Design inLondon inOctober. both artists were hisbooth’s highlights at the Basquiat andGerhard Richter—works by been boostingthemarkets for Jean-Michel London inJune. Lately, Van deWeghe has £21.5 million($33.5million)at Christie’s for aSelf-Portrait, 1964,for whichhepaid particularly Francis Bacon’s stellar Study of big-ticket purchases onbehalfof clients, York secondary-market dealermadeanumber has beennoexception. This year the and contemporary auction circuit, and2012 Van deWeghe isaregular onthemodern C a hr vi aun R aun S i N s thisyear, demonstrating theambition d stophe h ew York dealermadeheadlines several Zwi r n v er a e n g de e n

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process for its yet-to-be-announced architect. of themuseum,too, including theselection others. Siggisheavily involved inother facets pieces by GengJianyi,AiWeiwei, andmany valued at some$163millionandincludes iconic The 1,500-work gift-and-sale isreportedly museum, slated to openin2017 inHongKong. the vast majority of hisholdings to theM+ announced thissummerthat hewillturnover megacollector of contemporary Chinese art The former Swiss ambassador to Chinaand Ul designed buildingwhen itopensnext fall. will inaugurate thenew Herzog &deMeuron– exhibition of highlights from hiscollection But Pérez’s namewillremain, andan members, four of whomresigned inprotest. decision ruffled thefeathers of someboard um of Miami-DadeCounty. The museum’s its nameto theJorge M.Pérez Art Muse- Museum, whichinturnpromised to change $20 millionincash—to theMiami Art donated $35million—$15millioninart and collector of modernLatin American masters This year thereal-estate developer and J to accommodate out-of-town visitors. half of thisyear; aninnisunder construction Institute had157,000visitors injustthefirst to doubleits attendance since opening,the Chris Burden, andJanet Cardiff. Ontrack artists suchas HélioOiticica, CildoMeireles, temporary-art collection featuring renowned the museumnow houses a600-piece con- agant whiminthesmalltown of Brumadinho, Cultural Institute. Once considered anextrav- art complex otherwise known as theInhotim Arte Contemporânea eJardim Botânico, an mining magnate created theInstituto de for thepicturesque, in2006theBrazilian An aggressive patron of thearts withataste B and collaborate withcollectors across China. artists, journalists, andcurators to meet club, thefirst of its kind,invites foreign patrons, an international collector’s club inBeijing.His Art13, whichdebuts inMarch, andlaunching committee for theforthcoming London fair on theglobalcircuit, joiningtheadvisory 20 years. Recently Lihas become more active Minjun andTang Yi acquired over thelast Chinese contemporary art by thelikes of Yue Beijing HeJingYuan Art Museum,features structure. Li’sprivate-collection museum,the themselves to enrichtheregion’s arts infra- class of Asian tastemakers taking itupon The Chinese collector isoneof agrowing Li Bin orge er i Si n Art+Auction gg g ardo M.P erez P a z

husband andbusine Cady the likes of DianeArbus,Robert Gober, The cache includes standout examples by American Art andtheCentre Pompidou. contemporary art to theWhitney Museumof from theirextensive personal collection of promised thisyear to donate some800works The veteran T of contemporary Indonesian art as well. is reportedly lookingto increase hisholdings opened inJakarta in2008.The collector follow-up of sorts to Tek’s Yuz Museum,which Sotheby’s HongKong inApril.DeMuseumisa Ling, Wang Guangyi,andZhang for contemporary pieces by Fang Lijun,Song next year—including more than$10million his DeMuseuminShanghai—ontrack to open threw considerable fundsat work destined for heavily toward China’srising stars. This year he collection of contemporary art that leans agricultural magnate has amassed astaggering In justeightyears, theChinese-Indonesian Bu at theWhitney’s new buildingin2015. Wool. Acurated selection willgoonview hea d yv i T

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Mwax ell Anderson Klaus Biesenbach A museum director for 25 years, Anderson is The moma PS1 director’s tightly organized, one of the profession’s most visible innova- eight-night Kraftwerk retrospective in April tors and outspoken advocates, known for his was as much a showcase for Biesenbach’s statements and op-eds articulating positions establishment-ribbing, interdisciplinary on the illicit trade in antiquities, transparency curatorial approach as it was for the German Bear nd valansi & ris

in deaccessioning, tax benefits for artists’ electro-pop band’s oeuvre. Biesenbach elisangela valadares Pa donations, and the need to encourage young suavely maintains his status as the art world’s eydier, eydier,

people of color to enter the museum field. intrepid man-about-town as well: With D n Stellar appointments have marked his first Hurricane Sandy approaching New York, he a

year as director of the Dallas Museum of cohosted a PS1 Halloween costume party and hristi C Art. Anderson is claiming the spotlight again parade with none other than Courtney Love. as the museum closes in on two big deci- lerie Ga sions: adopting a full free-admission policy Michael Bruno phy; phy; and acquiring a painting by Leonardo The founder of 1stdibs.com, Bruno presides a da Vinci reportedly valued at $250 million. over one of the most profitable online sales hotogr P

enterprises in the art and antiques market. Synand A gus a Sandy Angus The global luxury platform, founded in 2001,

The cofounder of Art HK—which, come May, spent the year expanding its inventory, adding Audi lzi; a c will be rebranded as Art Basel Hong Kong— several new dealers, and acquiring the site S e has cast his prescient, profit-turning eye on of an English competitor, OnlineGalleries.com. D rco rco another burgeoning art center: Istanbul. This In April Bruno helped launch NYC20, a fair a s; M

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will open September 2013, in conjunction Christian Deydier Nancy Spector seu with the 13th Istanbul Biennial. Angus is also The influential Paris-based Asian art dealer s Mu a

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launched his own modern and contemporary to move through the vacant interior of what art and design fair, Expo Chicago. Its looked like a museum caught between inaugural edition attracted a range of blue-chip exhibitions, she organized Maurizio Cattelan’s POWER galleries, including Pace and David Zwirner, 2011–12 retrospective, featuring a rotunda alongside a bevy of local dealers. choked with the artist’s entire oeuvre dangling from metal beams. Spector’s shows read like Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp an A-list of artists: Matthew Barney, Louise The indomitable duo behind London’s Frieze Bourgeois, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Art Fair jumped the pond this year, debuting Prince. On the horizon is Fischli/Weiss, and the the highly anticipated Frieze New York in Swiss duo’s own engagement with strategies May, which marked the first time that Gagosian of display might just elicit another expectation- has ever exhibited in a New York fair. A mere shattering installation from Spector. five months later, they were back in London to debut yet another fair, Frieze Masters, directed Brenda Valansi by Victoria Siddall, the organization’s former and Elisangela Valadares head of development. The event presented When in 2009 visual artist Valansi and arts art from before 2000 and earned comparisons journalist Valadares joined forces to create to tefaf Maastricht for its sophisticated ArtRio, they didn’t expect the immediate pairings of art from across the centuries. success they enjoyed. The four-day event’s 2011 debut attracted 83 galleries—nearly half Nancy Spector of them international—and reached a sales Empty, full, unforgettable—three befitting total of R$120 million ($59 million) and adjectives describing the Guggenheim Museum 46,000 visitors. By 2012 their goals were more nd Frieze a during two precedent-setting exhibitions ambitious: With 120 galleries participating, organized by deputy director and chief curator including heavyweights Gagosian and White ylind N

a Spector. Following her 2010 Tino Sehgal Cube, the fair brought in an estimated 60,000 ind

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