Topic: Hans Ulrich Obrist
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81-day detention earlier this year caused an international outcry, has been named the art world's most powerful figure in a new ranking.Contemporary art magazine ArtReview published its 10th annual "Power 100" list ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - U.S. collector and gallery owner Larry Gagosian has been named the art world's most powerful figure in the annual ArtReview ranking, dominated this year by established commercial galleries.Gagosian has nine galleries around the world after opening ...
Presented is an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, an art curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London, England. In the interview Obrist addresses a number of issues including the impact of art on society, the universal nature of art and the element of ...
As we're nearing the end of a year and the end of a decade, it's time to look back and ahead. When even the newsletter of management consultancy Arthur D. Little--not necessarily known for being conducive to enthusiasm--arrives in your ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Several prominent collectors disappeared altogether and Britain's Damien Hirst went into freefall in the latest list of contemporary art's 100 most powerful figures.But while the financial crisis claimed plenty of victims from a year ago, a group ...
Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was named the most powerful figure in the contemporary art world on Thursday, but Britain's Damien Hirst tumbled almost 50 places in ArtReview magazine's " power 100" list.Obrist, co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director ...
When young curators imagine what's possible, they are imagining (whether they know it or not) some version of Szeemann and Hopps. When Szeemann was named head of the Kunsthalle Bern in 1961, at age 28, he was the youngest ever to ...