The Top 200 Collectors | Fall 2017

FEATURES

The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors

• Introduction
• The List
• What the Collectors Bought This Year

• 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

 

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• 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

 

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EDITOR’S LETTER Sarah Douglas

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FALL PREVIEW

• Museum Shows and Biennials around the World The Editors

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THE ARTNEWS ACCORD

• A Talk with Jessica Morgan and Rebecca Rabinow Andy Battaglia

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PERSPECTIVES

• The Pain in Spain
  In a country where the public idolizes great artists,
  there are few great collections of modern art Barbara Rose

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HABITAT

• Art Services
  Peer into the world of framers, fabricators,
  conservators, and more Katherine McMahon

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REVIEWS

• Beg, Borrow, Steal:
  With Several Exhibitions Involving Appropriation,
  New York Has a Second ‘Pictures’ Moment Alex Greenberger
• The Grand Tour:
  Around Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Venice Biennale 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

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RETROSPECTIVE

• China, An Old New Tradition

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