The Top 200 Collectors | Fall 2017
FEATURES
The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors
- Introduction
- The List
- What the Collectors Bought This Year
- The Collectors Reveal Their Mentors and Inspirations
- The Collectors Reflect on the Ones That Got Away
- Maezawa’s World
The Japanese collector recently set the auction record
for Jean-Michel Basquiat—twice Nate Freeman - From Maize to Museum
The long-awaited Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art
Africa aims to let the continent tell its own story Gemma Sieff - Maja’s Way
Collector Maja Hoffmann builds an iconoclastic home
for her LUMA Foundation in the south of France Nate Freeman - Young & Restless
Collector Michael Xufu Huang has grown up
fast in a changing art world Barbara Pollack - WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT L.A.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA puts Latin American
and Latinx art at the center of art history Maximilíano Durón - PICKET FENCES
Ai Weiwei protests oppressive borders
with a work of public art Barbara Pollack - THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF AMERICA’S APOCALYPSE
Their work unearths the seething muck beneath
the shiny surface of American culture Eleanor Heartney - Museum Shows and Biennials around the World The Editors
- A Talk with Jessica Morgan and Rebecca Rabinow Andy Battaglia
- The Pain in Spain
In a country where the public idolizes great artists,
there are few great collections of modern art Barbara Rose - Beg, Borrow, Steal:
With Several Exhibitions Involving Appropriation,
New York Has a Second ‘Pictures’ Moment Alex Greenberger - What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour:
At an Exhausting Documenta, an Underwhelming
Venice Biennale, an Enthralling Skupture Projekte Andrew Russeth - Seeds of Inspiration:
Operating in an Expanded Field, the 13th Sharjah
Biennial Aims to Push Beyond Monocultures Mahnaz Fancy - Seeing Old and New:
Two Shows in the United Arab Emirates
Looked at the Past and Present of Emirati Art Melissa Gronlund
EDITOR’S LETTER Sarah Douglas
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THE ARTNEWS ACCORD
PERSPECTIVES
HABITAT
REVIEWS
RETROSPECTIVE
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COVER ARTnews Top 200 Collector Yusaku Maezawa photographed at his home in Tokyo, on July 14, 2017. Read the article. ©KOHEY KANNO | Leo Limón, Más Juegos (More Games), 2000, in Cheech Marin’s collection. See the Top 200 Collectors. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE CHEECH MARIN COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES | Sara Cwynar, Flower, 2017. Read the review. ©SARA CWYNAR/COURTESY FOXY PRODUCTION, NEW YORK