Every year, ArtReview magazine is rating Top-100 most influential people in the world of art. It is composed of artists, art dealers, critics, curators, museum directors and art collectors.

It is not surprising that the first took place in the list of the main newsmakers of 2008 - Damien Hurst (Damien Hirst). This year he vzbalamutil entire art world, installing a personal auction entitled Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, which bypasses the gallery, he presented a completely new product. In the black for the entire global financial system on 15 September, when the bank Lehman Brothers announced its bankruptcy, «young so brazen» British artist as can be ozolotilsya, natorgovav at evening auction for more than 127 million dollars. September 16 was «continued banquet»: day trading Hurst had 73 million. As there was no place it in the first place! Hurst had once been the most influential man in the world of art: in 2005 he also headed the list of ArtReview. In 2006, with the top of his skinul collector and owner of auction house Christie's, François Pinault (François Pinault), who headed the ranking in 2007, and in the 2008-meters down as much as 8 th place. The first line in the list with Hurst shares his company Science, which deals with the marketing promotion of the artist.

Second place in the ranking took Gagosyan Larry (Larry Gagosian), while the third - Katie Halbrayh (Kathy Halbreich), deputy director of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Halbrayh In addition, the rating is still 31 beautiful sex. Fourth place was taken Tate gallery director Sir Nicholas Serota (Sir Nicholas Serota), who this year became a permanent employee of the museum , and the fifth - art dealer Ivan Wirth (Iwan Wirth) .

Because of the global crisis from a list of departed financial giants with major corporate collections. In the past year, UBS and Deutsche Bank were 62 th and 63 th place respectively, but in the ranking this year, they were not. At the same time raise the rating of artists - «heavyweight» art market, contemporary classics, whose works are very expensive and will be quoted on the market is always, regardless of economic shocks. For the first time the rating Top-100 hit author of the most expensive work of living artists Lusien Freud (Lucian Freud) , it took a 66 th place. At the 9 th place inhabits another patriarch of modern art - Jasper Johns (Jasper Johns) , the first time which entered the top ten. This year New York's Metropolitan Museum was his major retrospective.

«Japanese Hurst» Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami) took the list of 28 th place. Among other artists included in the list, - Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons, 11-th place) , Gerhard Richter (Gerhard Richter, 18 th place) , Prince Richard (Richard Prince 19 th place), Richard Serra (Richard Serra, 33rd place) , Bruce Naumann (Bruce Nauman , 45 th), Olafur Eliasson (Olafur Eliasson, a 50 th place), Peter Doig (Peter Doig, 53 rd) , Mike Kelly (Mike Kelley, 61 th place), Louise Bourgeois ( Louise Bourgeois, 81 th place) . Separately, it is necessary to note the well-known street artist called Banksy, who won the rating in 63rd place and has become the first street-art, appeared in the list of ArtReview.

chinese art boom also has not been in vain. On the 47 th place - artist Ai Veyvey (Ai Weiwei), which together with the architects Herzog and de Meron (Herzog & De Meuron) designed the stadium «Bird's Nest» in Beijing, a 69 th place Guoqiang Cai (Cai Guo - Qiang), whose retrospective was held this year in the Guggenheim Museum.

Megakollektsioner Charles Saatchi (Charles Saatchi) in the year to deliver the items: in 2007 he was on the 7 th place on the list, and in 2008-m, despite the opening in London on his new gallery , slipped to 14 th. The high position occupied the major collectors, members of the Top-10 collectors of works of art according to the magazine ArtNews : Eli Brody (Eli Broad, 10 th place), and Steven Cohen (Steven Cohen, 12 th place), both announced plans to build museums.

Of course, the list has not been without our fellow Roman Abramovich and Darya Zhukova. They were placed in 54 th place. Abramovich, who spent more than $ 100 million for the painting Lusiena Freud and Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), and Zhukova, opened the Center of Contemporary Culture «garage», have become a real pet press. Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk has taken the list of 67 th place.

ArtReview magazine published since 1949 and lists most influential people in the world of art forms from 2002 on. With a rating of 2008 can be found here .

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: artreview.com , artinvestment.ru