I know these things are silly and trite, but then we all like a list (Buzzfeed is well on the way to becoming a $1bn company on the back of - among other things - lists about cats and people whose life has been changed by telly). They're an amusing diversion: a source for a quick gossip.
That said, I did draw the line at signing a non-disclosure agreement for an early sighting.
I'm interested, not obsessed - as a young Tom Stoppard once famously said to a Fleet Street editor during an interview having been asked, by way of a warm up question, to name the then foreign secretary. (I think Stoppard was still at university at the time considering a career in journalism as a political or foreign correspondent.)
Anyway, in due course, the list came through under embargo. Great. I knew before I opened it that it wouldn't feature any art critics because the art world is a hermetically sealed, self-serving cabal in which an art critic's opinion is largely irrelevant... Keep reading on the BBC
I had been looking forward to the ArtReview Power 100 list.
I know these things are silly and trite, but then we all like a list (Buzzfeed is well on the way to becoming a $1bn company on the back of - among other things - lists about cats and people whose life has been changed by telly). They're an amusing diversion: a source for a quick gossip.
That said, I did draw the line at signing a non-disclosure agreement for an early sighting.
I'm interested, not obsessed - as a young Tom Stoppard once famously said to a Fleet Street editor during an interview having been asked, by way of a warm up question, to name the then foreign secretary. (I think Stoppard was still at university at the time considering a career in journalism as a political or foreign correspondent.)
Anyway, in due course, the list came through under embargo. Great. I knew before I opened it that it wouldn't feature any art critics because the art world is a hermetically sealed, self-serving cabal in which an art critic's opinion is largely irrelevant... Keep reading on the BBC