video art by luminaries who range
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from heroes of the medium’s early
days, such as Bruce Nauman, to
today’s big names like Matthew
Hedge-Fund Buyers
Barney, Doug Aitken, Tony Oursler
and Mike Kelley, and its impressive
Probably the most important influence on the
array of multi-channel projections
market, because they have enormous financial
and room-size installations are
Ingvild Goetz
the fruit of Goetz’s long-term
resources.
Category: Collector commitment to the medium. The
Nationality: German collection is not limited to artists
Steven A. Cohen (see 9)
Last Year: 47 renowned for new media, however,
and also boasts work by names like
Adam Sender (see 66)
Ingvild Goetz is the woman behind Peter Doig, Wade Guyton and
one of Europe’s most forward- Kelley Walker, Nigel Cooke and
Daniel Loeb
thinking collections of new media Richard Prince. Open to the public
Founder of Third Point, a New York hedge fund. The former
pioneers, the Sammlung Goetz. by appointment, Sammlung Goetz
Northern California surfer – and vigilante letter-writer – has been
Located in Munich since 1993 and will be showing Matthew Barney,
making inroads into the art market recently, buying work by the
housed in a building designed by beginning in November.
likes of Richard Prince and Martin Kippenberger.
Herzog & de Meuron, it includes a
tremendous collection of film and
Daniel C. Benton
Founder of Andor Capital Management, which he established
after leaving Pequot Partners, sits on the board of the Whitney in
New York and is actively buying for his private collection.
Eric Mindich
Founder of Eton Park Management – and, at twenty seven,
reportedly the youngest partner in Goldman Sachs’s history – is
also buying and on the Whitney board.
David Ganek
Named by Forbes as Frank Cohen’s ‘protégé’, he runs the hedge
fund Level Global and owns work by Christopher Wool, Damien
Hirst and Piotr Uklanski. He and his wife recently donated a suite
of Diane Arbus photographs to the Met.
As art critic for The New York Times,
Glenn Fuhrman
working in a city that occupies
co-manager of MSD Capital, the investment firm for computer
pole position in the art market,
billionaire Michael Dell, studied art in college along with finance.
and with more artists and critics
He and his partner John Phelan – who also collects – occasionally
doing the rounds than anywhere
host lunches in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art with
else, Roberta Smith is judge-on-
artists such as Chuck Close, Jim Hodges and Brice Marden.
high for the unruly court of the
artworld. Be it a major exhibition
at a cultural institution or the latest
emerging hotshot at a commercial
gallery, her cool judgement falls with
equal perspicacity. Not that Smith
condones the idea of one person’s
opinion, Clement Greenberg-
style, dominating all the rest. For
her, published criticism is an act
of dissent, and makes for one of
life’s greater pleasures. Needless
to say her art pedigree has been
long-established: prior to her
aris (59)
current position, which she has held
since 1986, she was senior critic
for the Village Voice and worked
as an assistant to the sculptor
Donald Judd.
oster (57), Philippe Chancel, P
ack F
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Roberta Smith
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anziska Sinn, Berlin (5
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Nationality: American
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