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Thelma Golden, director and chief her work at the Studio Museum, Looking back on the last four shows by Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt
curator of the Studio Museum Golden is one of three advisors for decades must be quite an experience and Anish Kapoor, Euro-scenesters
in Harlem, is the driving force the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and is for Nicholas Logsdail, founder and Gerard Byrne and Sean Snyder in
behind the museum’s raison d’être: on the advisory panel for a major director of Lisson Gallery, which debuts at the gallery, and biennial
to promote the work of artists of travelling exhibition of works from celebrated its 40th anniversary this darlings Allora & Calzadilla, who
African descent. Past milestones all aspects of culture, from boxing April. Back in 1967 Logsdail was open Lisson’s autumn programme.
for the woman who coined the term to the first black poetry, showcasing a dissatisfied art student, bored Next year promises a survey show of
‘post-black’ have included the shows black influence on life in America. with his studies at the Slade art work by Tony Oursler, followed by
Freestyle (2001) and Frequency She also got a recommendation school in London. A show of artist a similarly large-scale Julian Opie
(2005–6), promoting the work of from Jerry Saltz, speculating upon friends in a derelict building in exhibition. But although Logsdail
now established black artists such who should be the next director of Bell Street began the course that doesn’t need to enter the make-
as Laylah Ali and Julie Mehretu. the Guggenheim in a recent article would make Lisson Gallery an early or-break fray of market-frenzy
This year the evolution of ‘post- for New York magazine. London champion of the American emerging art, is Lisson resting on its
black’, reframing how we look at minimalists and conceptualists, and laurels? It’s been a long time since
black art and culture, has entailed showcase the New British Sculpture the gallery signed up any promising
staging shows by Lorna Simpson, of the 1980s. Logsdail’s talent for young British artists.
Los Angeles-based Henry Taylor finding, nurturing and holding on to
and Londoner David Adjaye, with significant artists may be legendary,
a major show of another LA artist, but these days he’s able to cherry-
Kori Newkirk, exploring identity pick emerging artists to join his
politics, opening this month. Beyond pantheon of big names. This year saw
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Thelma Golden Nicholas Logsdail
Category: Curator Category: Gallerist
Nationality: American Nationality: British
Last Year: 25 Last Year: 41
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Subodh Gupta Zhang Xiaogang
Category: Artist Category: Artist
Nationality: Indian Nationality: Chinese
Last Year: New Last Year: New
If Indian artists are the next new Western art methods – such as The poster boy for contemporary at Sotheby’s. Charles Saatchi has big
thing, then Subodh Gupta has the readymade and modes of Chinese art is Zhang Xiaogang, holdings of Xiaogang’s work, which
much to look forward to. The by- defamiliarisation – with specifically born in 1958, whose androgynous, will feature in the exhibition New
turns serious and chipper New Indian subject matter. At the 2005 expressionless family groups of the Chinese Art at the opening of the
Delhi-based artist occupies an Frieze Art Fair, his Geneva gallery, Bloodline: The Big Family series, new Saatchi gallery in Chelsea early
enormous place of stature within his Art & Public, devoted their entire stall based on family photographs taken next year. Not everyone appreciates
native India; without, he has been to Gupta’s stainless-steel cooking in the 1920s, are an inevitable the series of highly similar works that
immensely successful and is growing utensils, a reference to the curry- fixture in auctions and exhibitions of Xiaogang produces, with help from
y Beijing (86)
ever more so. François Pinault making crockery he sees around contemporary Chinese art. Other assistants, in his three studios in
ar
snapped up his Very Hungry God him in New Delhi. Another series Chinese artists have exploited Beijing, Sichuan and Chengdu; but as
ontempor
(2006), a large-scale skull made out cast in bronze are the ghathris, the ‘big face’ genre, but none so long as the market pays increasingly
of kitchen utensils, and exhibited it large tied bundles that are used to successfully as Xiaogang, who, frenzied prices for his work, he seems
in front of the Palazzo Grassi during transport goods from town to town according to Artprice, outsold Jeff happy to continue. Earlier this year
this year’s Venice Biennale. Unlike – or for Gupta, from East to West Koons at auction in 2006. In March PaceWildenstein announced that it
Hirst’s cranial endeavour, Gupta’s and back again. this year, Bloodline: Three Comrades would be representing Xiaogang,
a (84), courtesy Chinese C
comes with a conscience – the work (1994) made more than $2 million along with another superhot Chinese
iewiar
was inspired by the fact that soup at Sotheby’s New York, and in artist, Zhang Huan, in the US. An
yna N
kitchens in Paris were offering pork September Chapter of a New Century exhibition of Xiaogang’s work will be
ust
to the Muslim poor. Gupta’s practice – Birth of the People’s Republic of held in the gallery next spring.
photos: J ties together strands of conceptual China (1992) sold for $3.065m, also
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