Merlion
11-04-2007, 07:57 PM
ARTnews magazine asked museum curators to vote to nominate them. Here is a news story about the published list.
Joons and Hirst may be financially successful, I agree they would not make the list.
Koons, Hirst Aren't on ARTnews List of Famous Future Artists (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aLNnz1mfWT40&refer=muse)
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Jeff Koons, whose collectors include billionaire Eli Broad, and Damien Hirst, whose shark is owned by hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen, failed to draw a vote from museum curators nominating artists who'll be famous in 105 years' time for U.S. magazine ARTnews.
Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Yoko Ono were chosen as some of 2112's renowned artists. ARTnews, now 105 years old, said it surveyed experts as a guide to which contemporary artists would be ``embraced'' by museums at its 210th anniversary, as part of a look at the art scene of the future.
Collectors, museum curators, galleries and auction houses have a stake in guessing which artists will last and which will be swept away. Many artists and the dealers who nurtured them disappeared in the 1990s after the last art market crash.
Participants in the survey ``were thinking with their curatorial hats on,'' said Robin Cembalest, ARTnews's executive editor. ``They were not asked which artists would be financially most successful.''
Still, some experts may have named artists they were already showing at their museums, she said in a telephone interview. Some nominations, such as Ono, widow of Beatle John Lennon, surprised her, she said. Ono isn't currently prominent in the art world.
ARTnews published the selections of more than 30 museum experts in its November issue, from Michael Govan in Los Angeles to Suzanne Landau in Jerusalem.
The U.K.'s Lucian Freud wasn't nominated to be famous in 2112, though Francis Bacon was. Germany's Martin Kippenberger wasn't selected, while Gerhard Richter was chosen. Peter Doig, Zhang Xiaogang and Georg Baselitz, whose works also are traded at the auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's International, aren't among 2112's famous names. ....
Joons and Hirst may be financially successful, I agree they would not make the list.
Koons, Hirst Aren't on ARTnews List of Famous Future Artists (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aLNnz1mfWT40&refer=muse)
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Jeff Koons, whose collectors include billionaire Eli Broad, and Damien Hirst, whose shark is owned by hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen, failed to draw a vote from museum curators nominating artists who'll be famous in 105 years' time for U.S. magazine ARTnews.
Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Yoko Ono were chosen as some of 2112's renowned artists. ARTnews, now 105 years old, said it surveyed experts as a guide to which contemporary artists would be ``embraced'' by museums at its 210th anniversary, as part of a look at the art scene of the future.
Collectors, museum curators, galleries and auction houses have a stake in guessing which artists will last and which will be swept away. Many artists and the dealers who nurtured them disappeared in the 1990s after the last art market crash.
Participants in the survey ``were thinking with their curatorial hats on,'' said Robin Cembalest, ARTnews's executive editor. ``They were not asked which artists would be financially most successful.''
Still, some experts may have named artists they were already showing at their museums, she said in a telephone interview. Some nominations, such as Ono, widow of Beatle John Lennon, surprised her, she said. Ono isn't currently prominent in the art world.
ARTnews published the selections of more than 30 museum experts in its November issue, from Michael Govan in Los Angeles to Suzanne Landau in Jerusalem.
The U.K.'s Lucian Freud wasn't nominated to be famous in 2112, though Francis Bacon was. Germany's Martin Kippenberger wasn't selected, while Gerhard Richter was chosen. Peter Doig, Zhang Xiaogang and Georg Baselitz, whose works also are traded at the auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's International, aren't among 2112's famous names. ....