ART & DESIGN

Who’s Who in the Art World

W salutes some of the fabulous folks who make up the art world—here, there, and everywhere.


Dan Colen
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Photos: Who’s Who in the Art World

Larry Gagosian, gallerist.

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Oscar Murillo, artist.

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Maja Hoffmann, founder, Luma Arles, and collector.

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Rem Koolhaas, architect.

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Kara Walker, artist. “The weirdest thing I get all the time is ‘I thought you’d be shorter.’ I think it’s because I put a lot of small, childlike bodies in my work: not-quite-to-scale caricatures enacting terrible power games. Some folks see the figures and assume they’re based on me.”

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Lawrence Weiner, artist.

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Michael Slotover and Amanda Sharp, cofounders, Frieze Art Fair.

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Matthew Higgs, chief curator and director, White Columns.

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Nancy Spector, chief curator and deputy director, Guggenheim Museum.

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Adam Lindemann, collector and gallerist.

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Amalia Dayan, gallerist.

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Pawel Althamer, artist.

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Ragnar Kjartansson, artist. “I decided to wear a suit all the time around my 30th birthday. I was just so scared of turning into a middle-aged mammal in fleece.”

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Mickalene Thomas, artist; David Maupin, gallerist.

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Francesco Vezzoli, artist.

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Dan Colen, artist.

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Lisa Phillips, director, New Museum.

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Richard Armstrong, director, Guggenheim Museum.

Casey Freemont, Doreen Remen, and Yvonne Force Villareal, Art Production Fund.

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Francesco Bonami, curator.

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Bjarne Melgaard, artist. “The craziest comment I’ve overheard at one of my openings: Do you think he killed someone?”

Michael Govan, director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Clarissa Dalrymple, curator.

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Annabelle Selldorf, architect. “The biggest misconception about my work is that I don’t like curves.”

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Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and codirector, the Serpentine Galleries; Diana Widmaier, art historian; Klaus Biesenbach, director, MoMA PS1.

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Iwan Wirth, gallerist.

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Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen, collectors.

Gao Ying, artist Ai Weiwei’s mother.

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Dakis Joannou, collector and founder, DESTE Foundation.

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RoseLee Goldberg, founder, Performa. “Everyone is coming round to understanding that performance has been an integral part of art history for more than a century, and that the designation of art as painting and sculptures is way out of date!”

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