ArtReview #170 - Power 100

ArtReview #170 Power 100

The December issue features the 23rd edition of the ArtReview Power 100, the magazine’s annual ranking of the international contemporary artworld’s 100 most influential figures – from artists and thinkers to collectors and activists.

This special issue of the magazine, published each December, is where ArtReview exposes, enlists and accounts for the workings of international contemporary art. Not in the usual sense in which ArtReview does this (critical analysis and general commentary about the artworks that are put forward into the world), but rather in terms of the more general infrastructure of the artworld. Why is certain art being made or seen? How is it seen? Who decides what is seen? And what, more generally, is the relationship between making and seeing? It’s an attempt to illuminate some of the professionalised artworld’s obscured corners and track its shifts and changes over the past 12 months.

The full list with a detailed analysis of the artworld’s power structures as they exist today, accompanied by a specially commissioned project by Josèfa Ntjam, are all in this issue of ArtReview.

About ArtReview:

Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach, and tracing the ways it interacts with culture in general. Aimed at both a specialist and a general audience, the magazine and its sister publications, ArtReview Asia (launched in 2013) and a quarterly Chinese edition of ArtReview (published in partnership with Yishu Shijie and launched in 2022), feature a mixture of criticism, reviews, commentary and analysis alongside commissioned artist projects, guides and special supplements.