When the “power list” of the 100 personalities elected by
ArtReview
, a powerful English magazine
appears
, everyone rushes to read it.
See who is.
See who is not.
Test the mood of art at a “T” moment and measure the balance of power.
The reflex is to take the exercise with a touch of lightness, even mockery, as one would read a social directory with ranking on arrival, as one would rank the richest in the world in
Fortune
.
The elected officials are jubilant.
The excluded have it bad.
Radical change of course for the 2020 power list, published in early December.
In pole position, nor a museum director, as in 2019 Glenn D. Lowry, director of MoMA in New York (no 7).
Nor a great merchant, as in 2018 the German of New York, David Zwirner (no 30).
Not even a revered artist of biennials and institutions, such as in 2017 the strong Japanese and German cerebral, Hito Steyerl (no 18) expected in Beaubourg in the spring.
This year, the first place is not a
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