(Last year’s ranking is indicated in brackets)
1 (78) Damien Hirst - artist
2 (1) Larry Gagosian - dealer/gallerist
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3 (13) Francois Pinault - owner of Christie’s /collector
4 (3) Nicholas Serota - museum director
5 (2) Glenn D Lowry - museum director
6 (22) Eli Broad - collector/philanthropist
7 (5) Sam Keller art fair director - Art Basel, in Basel and Miami
8 (11) Iwan Wirth - dealer/gallerist, Hauser and Wirth
9 NEW Bruce Nauman - artist
10 (34) David Zwirner - dealer/gallerist
11 NEW Herzog and de Meuron - architects
12 (8) Ronald Lauder - collector/philanthropist
13 (23) Richard Serra - artist
14 (15) Marian Goodman - dealer/gallerist
15 (6) Dakis Joannou - collector
16 NEW Brett Gorvy and Amy Cappellazzo - both work at Christie’s
17 NEW Thomas Krens and Lisa Dennison - museum directors
18 (21) Marc Glimcher - dealer/gallerist, Pace in New York
19 (17) Charles Saatchi - collector
20 (41) Neo Rauch - artist
21 NEW Bernard Arnault - collector/owner of LVMH
22 NEW Richard Prince - artist
23 (19) Leonard Lauder - collector/philanthropist
24 NEW Steve Cohen - collector
25 (12) Gerhard Richter - artist
26 NEW Tobias Meyer - top contemporary person at Sotheby’s
27 (27) The Konig family - German family who run art bookstores and museums
28 (10) Takashi Murakami - artist
29 (31) Maja Oeri - collector and money behind Schaulager in Basel
30 (26) Nicholas Logsdail - dealer/gallerist Lisson in London
31 (49) Jay Jopling - dealer/gallerist, White Cube in London
32 (36) Barbara Gladstone - dealer/gallerist
33 (32) Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, art fair directors of Frieze in London
34 NEW Jeff Wall - artist
35 NEW Renzo Piano - architect
36 (77) Simon de Pury and Michael McGinnis - at auctioneers Phillips de Pury and Co
37 NEW Paul McCarthy - artist
38 (41) Gerd Lybke - dealer/gallerist Eigen + Art in Berlin
39 (45) Ed Ruscha - artist
40 (25) Peter Brant - collector
41 (40) Don and Mera Rubell - Miami collectors
42 (94) John Baldessari - artist
43 (44) Paul Schimmel - chief curator at LAMOCA
44 NEW Robert Mnuchin and Dominique Levy - dealer/galleris, L&M in New York
45 NEW Marlene Dumas - artist
46 (46) Matthew Marks dealer/gallerist and art fair director - Armory in NYC
47 (24) Adam Weinberg museum director - the Whitney in New York
48 (38) Sadie Coles - dealer/gallerist
49 (14) Rem Koolhaas - architect
50 (57) Victoria Miro - dealer/gallerist
51 (88) Alfred Pacquement - museum director, Pompidou Centre in Paris
52 NEW Peter Doig - artist
53 NEW The Mugrabis family - collectors
54 NEW Anselm Kiefer - artist
55 (55) Lurhing and Augustine - dealer/gallerist in New York
56 (42) Max Hollein - museum director in Frankfurt
57 (47) Ingvild Goetz - collector in Germany
58 NEW Chris Ofili - artist
59 (68) Thelma Golden - museum director/curator in New York
60 NEW Philippe Vergne - chief curator at the Walker in the US
61 (59) William Acquavella - dealer/gallerist in New York
62 (18) Jeff Koons - artist
63 NEW Allan Schwartzmann - art advisor in New York
64 NEW Harald Falckenberg - German collector
65 NEW Phillipe Segalot - art advisor
66 (93) Gerhard Steidl - book publisher, Steidl
67 NEW Iwona Blazwick - museum director, Whitechapel in London
68 (75) Harry Blain and Graham Southern - dealer/gallerist, Haunch of Venison in London
69 NEW Howard Greenberg - dealer/gallerist in New York
70 (61) Max Hetzler - dealer/gallerist in Berlin
71 (72) Francesca von Hapsburg - collector, philanthropist, museum owner
72 (56) William Eggleston - artist
73 (9) Robert Storr - curator/academic
74 NEW Perry Rubinstein - dealer/gallerist in New York
75 (20) Zaha Hadid - architect
76 NEW Stefan Edlis - collector
77 NEW Alanna Heiss - museum director/curator, PS1 in New York
78 NEW Thaddeus Ropac - dealer/gallerist in Paris
79 NEW Ann Philbin - museum director, the Hammer in LA
80 (30) Daniel Buchholz - dealer/gallerist in Cologne
81 (81) Maureen Paley - dealer/gallerist in London
82 NEW Shaun Caley Regen - dealer/gallerist in LA
83 (50) De la Cruzes - collectors
84 (85) Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun - curators
85 NEW The Christos - artists
86 (86) Hans Ulrich Obrist - curator
87 (84) Spruth Magers - dealer/gallerist in Cologne and London
88 NEW Richard Schlagman - book publisher, Phaidon
89 (82) Miuccia Prada - collector
90 NEW Christopher van de Weghe - art advisor
91 NEW Frank Dunphy - business manager to top London artists
92 (90) The Cisneros - collectors/philanthropists
93 NEW James Lingwood and Michael Morris curators – Artangel in London
94 NEW Yvonne Force - art advisor
95 NEW Christian Boros - collector in Germany
96 (98) Harvey Shipley Miller and Andre Schlectreim - curators in New York
97 NEW Rachel Whiteread - artist
98 NEW The Essels - collectors
99 NEW Tadashi Kawamata - curator
100 NEW Sebastian Lopez - curator
