French tycoon tops art power list: Though the list confirms the overwhelming dominance of New York and London as capitals of the contemporary art scene, for the first time the most influential figure is neither American nor British. Instead, the magazine named the Frenchman François Pinault, one of the world's leading buyers, as the most powerful man in modern art. [...]
From Pinault to Google... the art world's hot 100:
1: François Pinault, owner of Gucci and Christies, also owns around 2,000 pieces of contemporary art which he displays in his private gallery in a Venetian palace
2: Larry Gagosian, dealer, five galleries around the world
3: Sir Nicholas Serota, director, Tate Modern
4: Glenn D Lowry, director, Museum of Modern Art, New York
5: Samuel Keller, director of the Art Basel art fair [...]
97: João Oliveira Rendiero, art collector and chairman, Lisbon's Banco Privado Portugues
