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Matthew Marks Thomas Krens
Category: Gallerist Category: Museum Director
Nationality: American Nationality: American
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Editorial boards are prone to hype, – an association backed by Marks’s In addition to overseeing the five billion to Spain’s GDP). ‘Business
and it can be hard to draw their representation of postwar masters existing Guggenheim outposts (New moguls, governors, mayors – they all
attention away from the most such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns York, Las Vegas, Venice, Bilbao and come through the Guggenheim on
outrageous outfits, the loudest and Brice Marden – not to warrant Berlin), Thomas Krens (Director a regular basis. Bilbao has had such
voices and the worst behaviour. a bit more recognition. And if those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim an enormous impact,’ said Krens in a
But it was surely an oversight that venerable figures don’t impress, Foundation) has spent much of the recent interview, adding fuel to the
Matthew Marks – who will wear the then one can always point to the year talking up plans for the latest fires of those critics (of which there
label of ‘most precocious’ among art importance of other Marks artists, branch of the great art brand in Abu are legion) who think that business
dealers for a long time to come – only such as Robert Gober or Andreas Dhabi. Due to be designed by Krens is mostly what Krens is now about.
occupied a position in the lowest Gursky, whose spectacular, and favourite Frank Gehry, the museum But perhaps this is merely the most
quartile of this list last year. Perhaps spectacularly massive, Formula will cost between $200 and $400 obvious symptom of the way art
David Zwirner said it best when he One pit-crew photographs (the F1 million, and, alongside a branch institutions are going. Krens also
noted of the 2006 issue that such a Boxenstopp series, 2007) demand of the Louvre, forms a key part of claims that over the last three years
miscue “runs the risk of making the attention in a way that their dealer the Emirate’s attempt to recreate 130 cities have made requests for
Power 100 irrelevant”. Irrelevant?! As never does. itself as a cultural Xanadu. Much Guggenheimification.
one of our New York contributors of Krens’s influence is based on the
likes to say, “Unpossible!” success of the other Gehry-designed
That said, it would appear Guggenheim in Bilbao (since
foolish for the dealer consistently opening in 1997 it has drawn in nine
named as heir to Leo Castelli’s million visitors, helped create 4,200
sensibility for putting artists first new jobs a year, and contributed $2
Lisa Phillips and Richard Flood, already anchoring a growing arts Ann Philbin has been making good collectors such as Dean Valentine,
director and chief curator of the district on the Lower East Side. calls consistently since arriving at who recently gave the Hammer 42
New Museum of Contemporary Art Recent openings include branches of the Hammer Museum in LA from works by hip artists like Sam Durant
respectively, are decisively changing Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn’s Salon New York’s Drawing Center in 1999. and the late Jason Rhoades.
the centre of gravity in the New 94 and Chelsea gallery Lehmann One of her most impressive efforts This year has seen
York artworld. Before the museum’s Maupin. Phillips and Flood have was helping to coax sculptor Lee retrospectives of both Wolfgang
new home on the Bowery has even a crack curatorial team, including Bontecou out of retirement, exposing Tillmans and Francis Alÿs, half of the
opened (set for 1 December), it is Massimiliano Gioni of the Wrong the world to incomparable work that survey Masters of American Comics
Gallery, and shows of Tomma Abts could have been forgotten. and the unveiling of the Billy Wilder
and of the Rivane Neuenschwander On a larger scale, she’s also Theater. Over the last few years,
lined up. An innovative partnership taken a troubled vanity museum the Hammer has hosted a summer
between the New Museum, the founded by an oil baron and turned rock music series as well as all kinds
MCA Chicago and the Hammer in it into a chic cultural centre. Philbin of speakers, poets and writers,
LA to commission and acquire new has not taken the museum into including Dave Eggers, Lydia Lunch
video has resulted in work by Patty collecting, but has set what may and James Ellroy.
Chang, Fiona Tan and Aernout Mik. be the least predictable schedule
Most stunning will be the museum’s of any LA arts institution. She has
, Lisa Phillips)
new building by Japanese architects unleashed her curators to find art
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