ArtReview ranks Eli Broad, Michael Govan, Glenn Beck among 'Power 100'
The magazine ArtReview announced this morning its list of the art world's "Power 100" and several prominent L.A. names were among the illustrious, including Eli Broad (No. 7), Michael Govan (No. 40), Tim Blum and Jeff Poe (sharing No. 31).
One of the most notable inclusions in this year's list is conservative political commentator Glenn Beck, who came in at No. 100. Beck's place on the list is no doubt due to his recent controversial foray into art criticism, when he lambasted art created for New York's Rockefeller Center.
According to the magazine, entrants are "ranked according to a combination of influence over the production of art internationally, sheer financial clout (although in these times that’s no longer such a big factor) and activity in the previous 12 months – criteria which encompass artists, of course, as well as collectors, gallerists and curators."
The No. 1 spot this year goes to Hans Ulrich Obrist, who is co-director of exhibitions and programs and director of international projects at London’s Serpentine Gallery. ArtReview described him as "a tireless advocate for contemporary art who operates close to the centre of a network of influential thinkers and agenda-setters. "
The highest-ranking artist on the list is Bruce Nauman, who earlier this year received a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.
ArtReview, which is based in the U.K., said that a third of last year’s entries have fallen off the list and were replaced with newcomers. Damien Hirst fell from first place last year to 48th this year, while Charles Saatchi also fell significantly.
Click through to peruse the entire list...
1. Hans Ulrich Obrist
2. Glenn D. Lowry
3. Sir Nicholas Serota
4. Daniel Birnbaum
5. Larry Gagosian
6. François Pinault
7. Eli Broad
8. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood
9. Iwona Blazwick
10. Bruce Nauman
11. Iwan Wirth
12. David Zwirner
13. Jeff Koons
14. Jay Jopling
15. Marian Goodman
16. Agnes Gund
17. Takashi Murakami
18. Alfred Pacquement
19. Fischli & Weiss
20. Mike Kelley
21. Barbara Gladstone
22. Steven A. Cohen
23. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin
24. Adam D. Weinberg
25. Marc Glimcher
26. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo
27. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal
28. Ann Philbin
29. Matthew Higgs
30. Matthew Marks
31. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe
32. Gavin Brown
33. Ralph Rugoff
34. Liam Gillick
35. Anne Pasternak
36. Dakis Joannou
37. John Baldessari
38. Isa Genzken
39. Paul McCarthy
40. Michael Govan
41. Eugenio López
42. Cindy Sherman
43. Ai Weiwei
44. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
45. Annette Schönholzer & Marc Spiegler
46. Diedrich Diederichsen
47. Richard Prince
48. Damien Hirst
49. Bernard Arnault
50. Massimiliano Gioni
51. Amanda Sharp & Matthew Slotover
52. Joel Wachs
53. Victor Pinchuk
54. Udo Kittelmann
55. Marina Abramović
56. Michael Ringier
57. Gerhard Richter
58. Richard Serra
59. RoseLee Goldberg
60. Kasper König
61. Roberta Smith
62. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers
63. Germano Celant
64. Emmanuel Perrotin
65. Peter Schjeldahl
66. Beatrix Ruf
67. Okwui Enwezor
68. Nicolas Bourriaud
69. Karen & Christian Boros
70. Isabelle Graw
71. Maurizio Cattelan
72. Charles Saatchi
73. Jerry Saltz
74. Jasper Johns
75. Louise Bourgeois
76. Thaddaeus Ropac
77. Mera & Don Rubell
78. Thelma Golden
79. Sarah Morris
80. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
81. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz
82. Paul Schimmel
83. Jose, Alberto & David Mugrabi
84. Sadie Coles
85. Daniel Buchholz
86. Victoria Miro
87. Maureen Paley
88. Johann König
89. Nicolai Wallner
90. Maria Lind
91. Massimo De Carlo
92. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo
93. Rirkrit Tiravanija
94. Toby Webster
95. Long March Space
96. Nicholas Logsdail
97. Harry Blain & Graham Southern
98. Claire Hsu
99. Peter Nagy
100. Glenn Beck
-- David Ng
Photo: Glenn Beck. Credit: Evan Agostini / Associated Press
Go Glen Go!
I didn't know you were an artist :)
Posted by: Jon Paulsen | October 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Your NEA expose was so necessary and I thank you for it. Keep the pressure on.
Posted by: lin loen | October 15, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Way to go, Glenn! (Like you wanted to be on *this* list of people...)
You may not be an artist, but you are a thinker...
Posted by: Krissy | October 15, 2009 at 01:19 PM
Glenn Beck literally has more subscribers to his email newsletter than the whole of the New York Times subscription circulation. A true fact. Chew on that for those who doubt Beck's effectiveness. Ratings and eyeballs are king in the info business. The ad hominem personal attacks by his critics are just a smoke screen to obscure the resounding lack of rebuttal to his arguments by the liberal left. Whether you like his ADHD style or not, Glenn Beck is right on the money.
Posted by: Ethan | October 15, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Glenn Beck > Hans Ulrich Obrist
Posted by: Everyone | October 15, 2009 at 04:13 PM
Go Glenn! We need conservative arists!
Posted by: Ellen Franklin | October 15, 2009 at 05:42 PM
This helps to show the world that conservatives can and are influential in the art world too. Thanks ArtReview for the recognition.
Posted by: Jennifer Walters | October 15, 2009 at 06:28 PM
I'd rather have a grape juice stain on notebook paper done by Glenn than the propaganda "art" commissioned by the White House.
Posted by: Marta | October 15, 2009 at 06:35 PM
The far reaching influence of Glenn Beck! Excellent and way to go. I just wish that Glenn would break into the European market where I live so that these people would really learn something about what is going on in the world and not follow the Piper off of a cliff.
Rich
Helsinki
Posted by: Rich | October 15, 2009 at 11:03 PM
I rejoice that I still live in the Greatest Country on Earth and thanks in no small way to the likes of Rush, Fox News, and Glenn maybe we will continue a little further to stay that way - Thank You for your troubles and endurance Glenn - we have been comfortable and asleep much too long but thanks to all of the above we might get this ship back on course for our children and grandkids - you have much more than your name on a list when you get to heaven :) so glad Ill be seeing you someday there :) xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Michelle Lynn
Posted by: Michelle Lynn | October 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Woo hoo Glen!
Posted by: Steven | October 16, 2009 at 02:15 AM
Glen is waking the sleeping giant. Thank you Glen, just remember it is worth it and you are making a difference. Go Glen!!!
Posted by: Sue | October 16, 2009 at 04:48 AM
I wish we had a Glenn Beck here in Brazil to expose all the filthiness and great corruption that goes on in our government.
Posted by: ngen | October 16, 2009 at 05:28 AM
Now, how can Glen get to be #1 on the list next year?
Posted by: Jon Paulsen | October 16, 2009 at 08:04 AM
Congrats Glenn !! as an artist living in the shadows of the liberals, it is great you are exposing them for what they are..seeing other artists stand up for what they believe in on your show , gives me the confidence to do the same. Keep up the good work. valerie
Posted by: valerie | October 16, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Who are you people, and what medication are you using? Beck is an entertainer, not a journalist or an art critic -- hence his rapid rise to luminary status among the unsophisticated.
Posted by: Maggie | October 16, 2009 at 09:07 PM
Entertainer? Hardly. He's a commentator in his capacity on Fox News. He is the leader of a political movement. He labels himself an "opinion person." It is very likely, but hard to measure, that the silent majority is fed up with the BS politics and corruption in DC. That's what Glen is about, stomping out the BS and corruption. He hs the utmost respect of many of us
If you don't like his politics, or ours, that's fine, but no need to imply we are messed up in the head on some medication.
Posted by: Jon Paulsen | October 19, 2009 at 08:13 AM