ROMAN ABRAMOVICH & DASHA ZHUKOVA Moscow-born Dasha Zhukova opened the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in 2008 in Moscow (see Dasha Zhukova to Debut Moscow’s Rem Koolhaas–Designed Garage Museum June 12), and, with her partner Roman Abramovich (the owner of England’s Chelsea Football Club) she is now developing “New Holland,” a 19-acre island in Saint Petersburg, into a similar creative hub. Together, they recently bought the world’s largest collection of works by Ilya Kabakov (the priciest living Russian artist). Her collection is now legendary, containing thousands of mostly contemporary artworks. Her husband seems to prefer modern and Impressionist art, if auction records are any guide. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/top-200-art-collectors-2015-part-one-286048
With an estimated net worth of about $10.7 billion in 2016, Abramovich is among the most deep-pocketed art collectors in the game and is believed (confirmation is always a tricky business) to have snapped up quite a few trophy artworks at auction over the years, including a Francis Bacon triptych for about $86 million and a Lucian Freud for $33.6 million. Zhukova, meanwhile, runs the formidable Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, which opened its new Rem Koolhaas-designed headquarters in June 2015. The Garage recently started an outpost in St. Petersburg. Abramovich's yacht, Eclipse, measures 536 feet long and is said to be the second-largest private yacht in the world. http://www.artnews.com/top200/roman-abramovich-and-dasha-zhukova/
Stretching her sea legs: Roman Abramovich's wife Dasha Zhukova is stylish in shorts and a floral kimono as she boards Cannes' most star-studded megayacht. She's hosting Cannes Film Festival's hottest stars on husband Roman Abramovich's £175,000-a-night vessel. But, sure to show off her sea legs on Monday, Dasha Zhukova was briefly disembarking for a trip to the Eden Roc Hotel, where the remaining A-listers are wining and dining on land. The 34-year-old did daytime glamour in high-waisted denim that skimmed off high on the thighs and a stunning floral kimono that she draped effortlessly over the top. With a dog and daughter Leah in tow, Dasha made Cannes life look enviable as she hopped off a speedboat and onto dry land with friend Derek Blasberg. The Russian-born businesswoman was summer-ready in flat thong sandals and a vest top layered beneath her beach-style cover up. Though minimally done up, Dasha looked exquisite with natural lipstick and a bouncy blow-dry hair do. Hand-in-hand with her daughter, she shared a giggle with Vanity Fair writer Derek, who is known to run in very high profile circles. After all, Roman and Dasha have this week opened out their £1.5billion sea vessel to the likes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' Kendall Jenner and power couple Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. For a time, the 556ft vessel, Eclipse held the title of the world's largest superyacht, but has since been surpassed by the 590ft Azzam. The boat can accommodate 36 guests in comfort, and boasts a cinema, conference facilities, children's playroom, beauty salon, dance floor, swimming pool and sauna. Chelsea football club owner Roman took ownership of the Eclipse in 2012, around the same time that it was revealed they were pregnant with their second child. Dasha gave birth to Leah in spring 2013 and their first child Aaron in December 2009, while Roman also has two sons and three daughters with his ex-wife Irina Vyacheslavovna Malandina. Roman, who has been married and divorced twice, met the daughter of Russian oligarch Alexander Zhukova at a New Year's Eve party in 2006, though romance did not blossom until he had split from second wife Irina after 16-years of marriage. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3594355/Roman-Abramovich-s-wife-Dasha-Zhukova-stylish-high-waisted-shorts-floralkimono-boards-star-studded-yacht.html
HARYANTO ADIKOESOEMO The person behind the upcoming ambitious Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Museum MACAN) in Nusantara, Indonesia, is a businessman whose impressive collection of over 800 artworks spans both international and Indonesian art. The president of PT AKR Corporindo, a chemical and energy logistics company, as well as a luxury property developer, Adikoesoemo is already a major player in the Indonesian art community and abroad, being well known for collecting works by such artists as Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, and Affandi. He is also a trustee of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Adikoesoemo has set his sights on arts education and community engagement in financing the Museum MACAN, which is scheduled to open in 2017 in West Jakarta under the auspices of Thomas J. Berghuis, a former curator of Chinese art at the Guggenheim Museum, who will serve as director. Fun fact: In a New York Times article, Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu said of Adikoesoemo, “The private collecting milieu in Jakarta is very well developed, but more often than not the focus is on Indonesian contemporary art. Haryanto is unusual in that he has been collecting international art alongside Indonesian art for years, so this is really the next step for him. It’s a bold move.” http://www.artnews.com/top200/haryanto-adikoesoemo/
Indonesia’s First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017 The first museum in Indonesia dedicated to international modern and contemporary art is scheduled to open in early 2017 in the capital, Jakarta. The private institution will be called the Museum MACAN, for Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, an Indonesian term for archipelago. It is being built and financed by the Indonesian businessman and collector Haryanto Adikoesoemo. Thomas J. Berghuis, previously the curator of Chinese art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, has been hired as director of the museum, which will join a flourishing art scene in Indonesia that includes a growing network of galleries, independent art spaces, artists’ communities and events like the Jakarta Biennale and the annual ArtJog festival. “I want the Museum MACAN to develop and advance the understanding of Indonesians about art and the appreciation of art,” Mr. Adikoesoemo said on Saturday by telephone from Singapore, where he was attending Art Stage Singapore, an annual international art fair. “I also want this museum to help cross-pollinate exchanges with Indonesia and the world, to provide a platform for Indonesian art internationally and to bring international art to Indonesia.” The 43,000-square-foot museum, currently under construction, will be located outside the city center in the Kebon Jeruk district of West Jakarta. It will occupy one floor of a building in a larger development project that will include offices, apartments, a hotel and a retail area. Mr. Adikoesoemo said revenue from other parts of the development would go toward the operation of the museum. In creating exhibitions and programming for the museum, Mr. Berghuis and his team will have access to Mr. Adikoesoemo’s collection of about 800 works of modern and contemporary art. The collection, built over 25 years, is about 40 percent art from Indonesia, 35 percent art from the United States and Western Europe, and 25 percent art from the greater Asian region. The artists in the collection include prominent Indonesians like Raden Saleh and Affandi as well as international artists like Gerhard Richter, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons and Frank Stella. The museum will focus on exchanges between Indonesia and the international art world, according to Mr. Berghuis, whose team also plans to commission new works. “I knew about Haryanto from the curatorial and art world in Indonesia, and when we first started talking, I could tell this was going to be a serious initiative, not a vanity project,” Mr. Berghuis said on Saturday, also by telephone from Singapore. “There are key artists tied to key movements in the collection, and what is important to me there is you can educate with that.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/arts/international/indonesia-modern-art-museum.html?_r=0
MOHAMMED AFKHAMI Iranian-born financier and art lover Mohammed Afkhami, who has been collecting Middle Eastern contemporary art for over a decade, has been identified many times over as one of the Middle East’s major players. “[A] friend of mine called me up and said, ‘Look, there’s a great Iranian art scene flourishing. Come and have a look at some of these galleries.’ So I went with him, and he took me to this gallery. And I bought my first pieces,” he told Ibraaz. “I mean these were pieces that were $300, $400, or $500. And in the West, a canvas costs much more than that. And I brought the pieces back, and I started getting a little bit into it.” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/young-collectors-to-watch-2016-415178
Managing partner of MA Partners dmcc, a commodities derivatives consultancy based in the Middle East, Afkhami also serves as an adviser on capital placement to several of the largest global alternative investment firms. He collects international contemporary art, in particular Middle Eastern art, and is a founding member of the British Museum’s Middle East and North African art acquisition committee. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/816177/the-50-most-exciting-art-collectors-under-50-part-2
In her densely rich essay, The Allure of the Archives, Arlette Farge wrote: 'An archive presupposes an archivist, a hand that collects and classifies.’ Our archivist, then, is the art collector. To be taken with archival fever, Derrida said, 'is to burn with a passion...It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the archaic place of absolute commencement.'[5] Our archivist is the Dubai-based collector, Mohammed Afkhami. The path of return to our archaic past weaves across national borders. Iranian art has become a transnational art form. Iranian artists work from studios in Tehran, London, and Brooklyn. Their art sells in galleries in Tehran and at auction in Dubai. It is collected and exhibited in museums across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Dubai forms a central capital of this new Iranian art world. Dubai provides a central market for Iranian art. It helps sustain the imagination of Iranian artists. Dubai serves as a crucial gathering place for curators, artists, scholars, gallerists, and collectors working on Iranian art. That Mohammed Afkhami's collection is based in Dubai is central to our history. My historical practice recovers an alternative timeline of Iranian history embedded in the Afkhami collection. And as Farge has noted, the traces of the past that are contained in archives ultimately reveal themselves to the historian in random, sometimes chaotic fashion. http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/106
RICARD TAKESHI AKAGAWA Location : São Paulo Source of wealth : Travel and real estate investments Collecting area : 18th-century Brazilian Baroque furniture and imaginaries; Caucasian Rugs; International contemporary art Fun fact: Akagawa has said that he honed his collecting skills by visiting flea markets in his native São Paulo as a child. One of the leading collectors of modern and contemporary art in Brazil, which is fast becoming a powerhouse in the art market, Akagawa has been amassing art for four decades and is a regular at international art fairs. Reportedly, about 10 percent of his holdings are on display in his home at any given time, including pieces by Brazilian artists and rising international stars like the Indian artist Bharti Kher. http://www.artnews.com/top200/ricard-akagawa/
WEDNESDAY Gagosian Private Dinner To kick off the week on Wednesday, Gagosian Gallery celebrated its inaugural participation in the 2013 San Paulo International Art Fair by hosting a private dinner at Manioca in Sao Paulo with music by DJ Sean Souza. On the chic, tree-lined patio at Manioca, guests, which included Staffan Ahrenberg, Ricard & Angela Akagawa, Caetano de Almeida, Joao Orleans e Braganca, Carlito Carvalhosa, Vik Muniz, Tim Goosens, Carlos Souza, Luis Pastore & Carolina Overmeer, among many other high-profile guests, joined Gagosian directors Victoria Gelfand-Magalhães (Gagosian New York), Serena Cattaneo Adorno (Gagosian Paris) and Millicent Wilner (Gagosian London). For its second presentation in the country, Gagosian Gallery enlisted Brazilian designer Claudia Moreira Salles for the design of its booth. Artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cecily Brown, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dan Colen, Willem de Kooning, Urs Fischer, Alberto Giacometti, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Rudolf Stingel, Andy Warhol, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread and Christopher Wool was featured this year, among many other blue-chip artists. http://www.whitewallmag.com/lifestyle/last-weeks-events-sao-paulo-international-art-fair
Art Basel Miami Beach got off to a good start in Florida this week, with an increased turnout of Latin-American collectors and particularly Brazilians. The event, which ends this Sunday, has become ever more focused on the two Americas: “It is the gateway to South America,” said Damiana Leoni of the Italian gallery Magazzino. Many dealers contrasted the type of art exhibited in Miami, which shuns the understated, with that in the Swiss Art Basel: “Europe likes more conceptual works; here there is more colour, more exuberance, a more physical feeling to the art,” Leoni said. Among the early sales was a swirling, abstract work, “Symphony” (2010) made by the Indian artist Bharti Kher with bindis (caste marks), which went to Brazilian collector Ricard Akagawa (priced at $175,000). “It brings happiness with colour!” he told me. https://www.ft.com/content/8d2a4426-fe67-11df-845b-00144feab49a
Data from : Panama Papers https://panamadb.org/officer/ricard-takeshi-akagawa_12197412
SOOUD AL QASSEMI The Barjeel Art Foundation is a museum and cultural institution located in the United Arab Emirates with a mandate to manage, preserve and exhibit the personal art collection of Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi. The Foundation serves as a resource for Arab modern and contemporary art and hosts exhibitions and lends artwork to international institutions such as Serralves Foundation (Portugal) and the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), while also serving as an educational vehicle for local and international art communities. The foundation has shown works that highlight the value of heritage, family, structure and history and how it is translated in the context of globalisation. Other works examine life in the Diaspora, the desire to create an identity or recapture a history that has become lost or scattered. Barjeel Art Foundation initiates, supports and presents artistic projects all over the world. Through curated exhibitions of the collection, loans to leading institutions and international forums such as Whitechapel Gallery, and Art Dubai, as well as various efforts to support educational activities by contributing to the image archives of Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and the Arab World (MEMAAW), organizing panel discussions and student tours, the foundation aims to create a public platform for critical debate around the contemporary art practice of artists with Arab heritage. Consisting of over 1000 pieces of modern and contemporary art from Arab artists, the foundation is the most comprehensive publicly accessible art collection in the Middle East. It operates from a permanent base in the Maraya Art Centre in Al Qasba, Sharjah. The Al Qasba complex was designed and executed by the Halcrow Group, which was acquired by CH2M Hill in 2011. Al Qasba opened to the public in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barjeel_Art_Foundation
Wealthy art collectors often spend millions of dollars on trophy pieces by European masters, then keep them hidden from view. Not Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: He spends his fortune on artworks by living, Arab artists, then shows them to as many people as possible. Qassemi is a bit of a paradox. He's a member of an Arab royal family, but he recently showed up at NPR's New York bureau by himself and casually dressed, looking more like a grad student than a sheikh. While clicking through the artworks on his Barjeel Art Foundation's website, he emphasizes his collection's diversity. "These [artists] are from all over the Arab world: Syrian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Egyptian, Jordanian, from the [United Arab Emirates] and Lebanon," he says. ÂŤ I don't buy artworks that I think are pretty and aesthetically appealing. But I buy art that is politically meaningful. Âť Qassemi's collection consists of more than a thousand works, but he's perhaps better known as a media personality than an art collector. A regular commentator on the Middle East, he's been interviewed about finance on Bloomberg TV, and unemployment on CNN. He's written for The New York Times and Foreign Policy, and during the Arab Spring, he tweeted constantly, translating Arabic speeches and reports into English. Time magazine wrote "to the extent that the revolution was tweeted, much of it came through the feed of Sultan Al-Qassemi." http://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/440850284/for-arab-artists-with-something-to-say-this-sheikh-is-a-loudspeaker
BASMA AL SULAIMAN Basma Al Sulaiman Shakes Things Up With a Virtual Museum for Her Adventurous Collection The high-energy, low-profile collector Basma Al Sulaiman resists easy classification. Divorced and living in London since 2000, she has built a collection that is remarkable for the breadth of its holdings in Chinese, Indian, and South Asian contemporary art. She has also become a patron of art in and from her native Saudi Arabia. And although Al Sulaiman might have joined the museum building boom in the Middle East or created a private institution in London, she has opted for a more egalitarian platform. The Basma Al Sulaiman Museum of Contemporary Art — or BASMOCA — is the first virtual museum to present an actual private collection to a limitless global audience of wired visitors. (...) Other contemporary works in the room are equally challenging, if less transgressive. A stainless steel scholar’s rock by Zhan Wang perches on a table. Above the fireplace hangs Zhang Xiaogang’s severe "Comrade" painting from 1995, one of two owned by Al Sulaiman from his storied "Bloodline" series. Yang Shaobin’s "No. 4," 2001-02, an abstracted figurative composition in crimson tones, commands more wall space. Al Sulaiman acquired the painting at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2007 for HK$1,807,500 ($233,393). Impressive in its own corner is an aluminum and bronze sculpture of stacked suitcases, Subodh Gupta’s "Kuwait to Delhi," 2006, which was inspired by the Indian laborers who travel back and forth between their homeland and their work in the Middle East. One of Shao Fan’s much-admired deconstructed chairs, this one a Ming example reassembled with Plexiglas, is just visible in a corridor. Although a small Gerhard Richter abstract typically sits on an easel in the drawing room (today it’s absent) and a Georg Baselitz painting hangs on one wall, the majority of works by Western artists are installed elsewhere in the house. In the dining room, for example, the two parts of Tracey Emin’s large neon "Our Angels (Foundlings and Fledglings)" — a bird on a leafy branch and a cursive text — cast a soft blue glow from opposite walls. The piece was shown in the British pavilion during the 2007 Venice Biennale. (...) Al Sulaiman cites her visit to the "Sensation" exhibition in London — the 1997 Royal Academy of Arts show of the Saatchi collection that introduced the YBAs to a wider public — as the moment she came of age with respect to understanding contemporary art. "Saatchi has definitely been an inspiration," she says, "and I’ve tried to follow his model in the way I collect Saudi art, to look into new artists, to support and collect them. But there is a big element of commercialism in it [Saatchi’s activities], and I’m not a fan of that aspect." Al Sulaiman has concentrated on cutting-edge international art for well over a decade but still owns her earliest acquisition, purchased at the start of the 1990s: a painting of ornamental birds by the British artist Marmaduke Craddock (circa 1660–1717), similar to one owned by Tate Britain. "For me, the main thing is that I have to like it," says Al Sulaiman about the appeal of any artwork. "Sometimes it’s a personal kind of attraction that grabs me. I never think of a specific place to put it, and I never think in terms of color or medium. Most of the time, the work finds its own right place, and it’s been that way for me since the very beginning." With few exceptions, Al Sulaiman acquires works by young or emerging artists whose fame and prices have not yet soared. She works closely with dealers, chief among them Pearl Lam, the globe-trotting Shanghai and Hong Kong gallerist. (...) In the course of a later conversation with Al Sulaiman, I recalled the bondage flavored, Gainsboroughesque Banksy in her London drawing room, which she sold at Christie’s London last February 15 for £265,250 ($416,973), above its high estimate of £200,000. When I inquire about it, Al Sulaiman sighs, saying, "I had to sell that one. I’m trying to replace it right now with either a James Turrell or an Antony Gormley." The budget is not limitless. For international art, Al Sulaiman generally sets her price ceiling at around $200,000. Making acquisitions can raise not only financial issues but philosophical ones as well, as was the case with some recent purchases of video and new media. At ARCO Madrid last February, Al Sulaiman acquired Bill Viola’s "Father and Daughter," 2008, a high-definition color video presented on a 42-inch plasma screen, from Blain/Southern, in London, as well as two works by the Russian artist Marina Alexeeva from the Marina Gisich Gallery, in St. Petersburg. Alexeeva’s "Museum" and "Mozart and Salieri," both from 2011, are mixedmedia pieces from the artist’s "Live Box" series that incorporate video and holograms in light boxes. "The big question I ask myself," Al Sulaiman says, "is will this move to media art evolve, will it stand up to time as painting and sculpture do?" http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/815865/basma-al-sulaiman-shakes-things-up-with-a-virtual-museum-for
PAUL ALLEN Paul Allen (né Paul Gardner Allen le 21 janvier 1953 à Seattle) est un informaticien, chef d'entreprise, homme d'affaires et mécène américain. Pionnier et visionnaire dans le domaine de la micro-informatique, il cofonde en 1975, avec Bill Gates, la société Microsoft. Il est aussi patron actionnaire d'un empire financier de multiples sociétés dans les domaines des hautes technologies, de la recherche, des médias et des sports, regroupées pour la plupart sous la société mère Vulcan Ventures. En 2011, Paul Allen est considéré comme le 57e homme le plus riche au monde avec une fortune personnelle de 13 milliards de dollars (19 milliards de dollars en 2016). https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
Paul Allen on Forbes Lists #21 Forbes 400 (2016) / #26 in 2015 / #11 Richest In Tech (2016) / #40 Billionaires (2016) #22 in United States http://www.forbes.com/profile/paul-allen/
En 1997, il fonde Vulcan Productions, une société de production cinématographique tout en investissant dans les hautes technologies, les médias et le sport. Trois ans plus tard, Paul Allen démissionne du conseil d'administration de Microsoft et en reste uniquement actionnaire. En 2013, Paul Allen sort son album de Rock de 13 titres intitulé Everyone at Once. Créée en 1975 par Bill Gates et Paul Allen, Microsoft est une multinationale américaine spécialisée dans le développement de logiciels et de systèmes d’exploitation. En 2011, Microsoft réalise plus de 69 milliards de dollars de chiffre d’affaires, enregistrant ainsi une augmentation de 12% par rapport à l’exercice précédent. Sa filiale française dirigée par Alain Crozier emploie plus de 1500 salariés pour près de 2 milliards d'euros de chiffre d'affaires. http://www.lsa-conso.fr/carnet-des-decideurs/allen-paul,146131
Paul Allen believes art should be accessible to all, and public art pieces have tremendous benefit not only for the individual, but for the community. Paul and Vulcan have supported more than 15 public art installations in neighborhoods around the city because of a genuine desire to make public spaces more interesting and offer a sense of place to those who live and work there. You can view Dan Coulson’s incredible sculpture of suspended glass in South Lake Union or experience a glass forest canopy in the middle of a vibrant innovation district with Spencer Finch’s “There Is Another Sky.” All around the city, public art helps residents pause and appreciate the beauty of their surroundings and illustrates to visitors that Seattle is a city that celebrates its rich artistic and cultural heritage. http://www.vulcan.com/areas-of-practice/museums-culture/key-initiatives/art
The show is comprised of works spanning five centuries by such artists as Paul Cézanne, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, and J.M.W. Turner. “Seeing Nature” is co-organized by the Portland Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum, in collaboration with the Paul G. Allen Family Collection. “These are really exceptional pieces of art, and there’s something about landscapes that is universally attractive, which is why I find them so interesting,” Allen says. “By sharing these paintings with the public, it is my hope that people will have the same eye-opening experiences I had when I first saw them.” http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/paul-allen-collection
SHEIKA MAYASSA AL-THANI Sheikha al Mayassa (Son Excellence Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, née en 1982) est une princesse du Qatar, 14e enfant de l'Émir du Qatar Hamad ben Khalifa Al Thani. Surnommée la culture queen par les médias anglo-saxons1, elle est de par sa fortune une des femmes mécènes les plus influentes du monde de la culture et de l'art (classement du magazine Forbes 2012 des 100 femmes les plus influentes au monde). Importante mécène du monde de l'art, elle a pour ambition de faire du Qatar un centre mondial de premier plan pour la culture, l'art et l'éducation pour sa région et dans le monde. Elle est nommée chef et présidente du conseil d'administration du Qatar Museums Authority (AMQ) (organisme qui dirige les musées du Qatar), avec un budget d'achat d'art record de près d'1 milliard de dollars (estimation du magazine Forbes). Au cours des années 2000, la famille Al Thani a acheté pour près de un milliard de dollars de peintures et sculptures occidentales, dont Les Joueurs de cartes de Paul Cézanne au prix record de plus de 250 millions de dollars. En 2008, elle crée avec l'acteur américain Robert De Niro l'événement Tribeca film festival Doha, une déclinaison qatarie du Festival du film de Tribeca. En août 2013, elle annonce que le Qatar Museums Authority change de statut : l'organisme de gestion des musées qataris devient un institut privé, et non plus une propriété de l'état. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikha_al_Mayassa
Al Mayassa is said to have purchased the most expensive painting in the world, Paul Gauguin's When Will You Marry? in 2015 for $300 million, Cezanne's The Card Players in 2012 for $250 million, as well as Mark Rothko's White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) in 2007 for $70 million, a Damien Hirst pill cabinet for $20 million and works by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon. She has staged major exhibitions in Qatar with Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra and Damien Hirst. (...) Sheikha Al Mayassa's wealth and role as Chairperson of Qatar Museums make her influential among art collectors. Bloomberg reported her acquisition budget on behalf of Qatar Museums is estimated at $1 billion annually. Sheikha Al Mayassa is said to have purchased the most expensive painting in the world, Paul Gauguin's When Will You Marry? in 2015 for $300 million, Cezanne's The Card Players in 2012 for $250 million, as well as Mark Rothko's White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) in 2007 for $70 million, a Damien Hirst pill cabinet for $20 million and works by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon. She has staged major exhibitions in Qatar with Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra and Damien Hirst (underwriting his exhibit first at the Tate Modern prior to opening in Doha). The Sheikha oversees a vast array of museums including the I. M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. A Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar and an Orientalist Museum by Herzog & de Meuron are slated to open in the coming years. Sheikha Al Mayassa participated in a TED Talk in February 2012, where she highlighted the importance of the social impact of art. She affirmed that her goal was to create a local collection of art to contribute in shaping the Qatari national identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mayassa_bint_Hamad_bin_Khalifa_Al-Thani
Sheikha Mayassa Al-Thani is described by Forbes as the “undisputed queen of the art world.” As chair of Qatar Museums, which houses the country’s art collection and museum landscape, Sheikha Mayassa Al-Thani has overseen the purchase of works by Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko (see: “What Are The Top 10 Al-Thani Family Art Acquisitions?“). In 2013 she was placed at the top of ArtReview‘s Power 100 List and, according to them, her organization’s spending reaches a rate of $1 billion per year. In 2014, she was named on artnet News’ The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art (see: “The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art: Part One“). https://news.artnet.com/market/the-top-10-uber-rich-art-collectors-157162
MUKESH & NITA AMBANI India’s richest couple controls a $20 billion family fortune that has lately turned to art collecting and funding art exhibitions related to their homeland. In 2015, Nita Ambani’s Reliance Foundation—named after Reliance Industries, her husband’s textile and petroleum empire—sponsored a show of Hindu paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. In March, the foundation was the biggest sponsor of the Met Breuer’s retrospective of Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nita Ambani is “planning a museum of her own in India, where large, institutional venues containing the latest climate-control technologies remain scarce.” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artnet-news-index-top-100-collectors-part-one-513776
Wrested title of India’s richest resident from Azim Premji. Since splitting with brother Anil in June of last year and taking control of $20 billion (revenues) Reliance Industries, fortune has soared by $11.5 billion. Oil-refining subsidiary Reliance Petroleum, in which Chevron has 5% stake, listed in May. Betting $5.5 billion on retail ventures including Reliance Fresh, chain of food stores. Megaplans include $10 billion investment to develop special economic zones. http://www.forbes.com/global/2006/1127/039.html
The Mukesh Ambani And Nita Ambani Marriage – When A Billionaire Fell For The Girl Next Door He is the billionaire businessman of India and the son of India’s richest man. On the other hand, she grew up in the suburbs of Mumbai and hails from a middle-class Gujarati family, whose father was a senior executive in Birla. And they two were destined for each other and it’s been over 30 years of their marriage. They are none other than Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani. If you feel that how a normal middle-class Mumbai girl comes to meet a billionaire, let alone wed him, seems like straight boolywood scene, the incident which led them to the altar of marriage also appears to be a scene out of a Bollywood flick. http://allindiaroundup.com/viral/the-mukesh-ambani-and-nita-ambani-marriage-when-a-billionaire-fell-for-the-girl-next-door/
India’s richest woman with a $20 billion family fortune and a 27-story sky palace in India’s south Mumbai, billed as the world’s most expensive home for its $1 billion estimated cost – Nita Ambani is now eyeing the art world. Her new interest is the conservation of Indian art forms and making them more widely known internationally. Recently her Reliance Foundation sponsored an exhibition of traditional Indian pichwai paintings of Shrinathji, the Ambani family deity, at the Art Institute of Chicago. She’s also the biggest funder of the new Met Breuer’s debut show of modernist drawings by Nasreen Mohamedi, the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in the U.S. Nasreen’s exhibition ‘Waiting Is a Part of Intense Living’ made its debut at the Reina Sofia Museum in Spain this past September. (...) Indian collectors have already ascended the upper ranks in the world of art. Hotelier Anupam Poddar and Kiran Nadar, the wife of HCL Technologies’ founder, Shiv Nadar have opened private museums for their contemporary art collections in the greater New Delhi. Madhuvanti says, “Nita sits at the top of India’s wealthiest families, a tastemaker whose travels and causes are closely followed in Mumbai and elsewhere. Until now, she was best known for promoting health and education initiatives—as well as cheering on her husband’s cricket team and soccer league—but her artistic interests, besides dance, have long been something of a mystery.” Nita’s love for art and sculptures reflects at her Mumbai mansion. Nita says she has slowly added modern and contemporary artworks, nearly all Indian, from earthy abstracts by M.F. Husain to the gold orb sculpture by Anish Kapoor that hangs in her living room. She recently commissioned Subodh Gupta to create a 9-foot-long installation using metal and brass cooking vessels to create a map of Mumbai. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1384764/indias-richest-woman-nita-ambani-eyes-the-art-world
MARC ANDREESSEN Marc Andreessen (9 juillet 1971 - ) est un des membres de l'équipe d'étudiants de l'Université de l'Illinois qui a développé, en 1993, Mosaic, le premier navigateur web complet disponible pour les systèmes d'exploitation Mac OS, Windows et UNIX. Avec les fonds de James H. Clark, le fondateur de SGI (Silicon Graphics), il fondera Netscape, première entreprise entièrement orientée vers Internet. En 2009, il lance la conception d'un nouveau navigateur nommé RockMelt. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen
Though he's more widely followed on Twitter for his lively debate, Marc Andreessen made a far biggest score as a seed investor in Facebook. (He also helped seed Twitter). He's also seen large returns from acquired companies like Instagram and Oculus VR (both sold to Facebook) and Skype (sold to Microsoft). His current portfolio includes Pinterest, Stripe, Airbnb, Buzzfeed and GitHub. While still at college, Andreessen co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser and then cofounded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. http://www.forbes.com/profile/marc-andreessen/
The 'cultural desert' of Silicon Valley finally gets its first serious art gallery Silicon Valley got its first major contemporary art gallery this week because Laura Arrillaga Andreessen – prolific art collector and heir to local real estate baron John Arrillaga – decided it was a little weird to have art sales in her house. “I didn’t come and say I’m going to make Silicon Valley like art. It just happened,” said Marc Glimcher, who runs the influential Pace Gallery and was in town to fete the opening of his new Menlo Park location. “In the beginning, Laura Arrillaga wouldn’t travel, so I would bring art to her house, and then her friends started wanting me to bring them art too. And she said, you know, it’s a little tacky to be doing this in my house, why don’t you use my dad’s old run down Tesla shop?” A Tesla building could only be considered “old” in Silicon Valley. There’s long been a truism that the Silicon Valley elite don’t buy art. Unlike Wall Street bankers who see art as investment or prestige enhancement or maybe even who truly love art, Silicon Valley’s wealthy don’t seem to desire the same trappings of wealth, despite art dealers circling their IPOs for years. Wealth shows in different ways here: eccentric dietary habits, peculiar transportation methods such as electric unicycles, extreme fitness behaviors. Silicon Valley has been a lifestyle desert. They think 'We don’t do anything, we just work' says Marc Glimcher, Pace Gallery owner. With the opening of the Pace Art and Technology space, dedicated of course to showcasing digital art, Silicon Valley gets 20,000 square feet of contemporary art and its first real test as an art market. The current show, “Living Digital Space and Future Parks,” has been made by a collective of 400 digital artists who call themselves teamLab. Kudo Takashi, one of the artists, said he liked that the show debuted here: “It’s so special to do it in a Tesla Motors building. Elon Musk makes dreams real. He believes in the future.” “There’s a certain standoffishness to art here like, ‘Is this a Wall Street scam because we don’t do Wall Street scams’,” Glimcher said. “Obviously digital art makes sense – technology based, which is of interest, and subversive, which is of interest.” “Here it’s been a lifestyle desert. As if ‘We don’t do anything, we just work. We don’t have a life’. As soon as they start having kids, though, they’re like, maybe we are people, maybe it would be good to have art,” Glimcher said, then continued and got a little heated. “Maybe it would be cool to have a Nobu. It’s maybe it’s not cool to have no good restaurants.” “I shouldn’t say that,” he said, winking. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/06/silicon-valley-andreessen-art-pace-gallery-menlo-park
ROBBIE ANTONIO Real estate developer Antonio’s Manila home was designed by Rem Koolhaas—the first residential commission the architect had taken on in 15 years—and it houses the Filipino collector’s private collection. His current obsession is a series of portraits of himself that he has commissioned from some of the world’s hottest contemporary artists (he has already paid $3 million for the two dozen that have been completed), including Julian Schnabel, Marilyn Minter, David Salle, Zhang Huan, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, and Takashi Murakami. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/top-200-art-collectors-2015-part-one-286048
The Museum of Me Robbie Antonio’s new house in Manila, designed by renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, will be filled with portraits of himself, by world-class artists such as Julian Schnabel, Marilyn Minter, and David Salle. Is the 36-year-old real-estate developer a patron, an egomaniac, or both? Ask Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas why he’s taken on his first residential commission in 15 years—scheduled to be completed this month in Manila, the Philippines—and he has a very short answer indeed: “Well, basically Robbie.” “Robbie” would be Robbie Antonio, a 36-year-old real-estate developer and voracious art collector who has spun a golden web and ensnared some of the world’s top creative names for two eye-poppingly ambitious projects. The first is the Manila home, which also serves as a museum for his ever expanding art collection, with works by the likes of Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, and Jeff Koons. The building, by Koolhaas and his team at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is referred to by the name Antonio gave it, Stealth. Its cost— upwards of $15 million—is in somewhat stark contrast to the average annual Filipino-family income of $4,988. Indeed, the building, under construction on a small lot in Manila’s most exclusive neighborhood, has been kept largely quiet until now. It’s a series of boxes stacked together in an irregular pattern, with scooped-out windows that call to mind Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum, all wrapped in a charcoal-colored concreteand-polyurethane “skin”; the roof features a pool flowing into a dramatic waterfall. Antonio calls the second project Obsession: a series of portraits of himself by some of the world’s top contemporary artists, including Julian Schnabel, Marilyn Minter, David Salle, Zhang Huan, members of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, and Takashi Murakami. So far, two dozen portraits are under way or completed, with nearly $3 million spent on them. Antonio is aiming for 35 in the series by the end of the year, all of which will be housed in a special gallery within Stealth, open only to invited guests. The level of effort he’s put into Obsession and Stealth over the last two years “tells you about my personality—going to extremes, down to the minutest detail,” he says. The performance artist Marina Abramović, a friend of Antonio’s, who has called him a “volcanic tornado,” is contributing a piece to Obsession that she calls The Chamber of Stillness: a basement room in Stealth with a waterfall view that could actually lock him in for periods of up to 60 minutes and force contemplation. “She thinks I’m super-fast and need to calm down,” says Antonio. One day in New York this winter, while riding in a town car to Chelsea to see the contents of his art-storage unit, Antonio said out of the blue, “I want to work with five Pritzker winners by the time I’m 45,” referring to the prize awarded annually by the Chicago hotel and real-estate family and the highest honor for architects. In fact, before he gave Koolhaas the green light, he says, he had discussions with the offices of Jean Nouvel, Thom Mayne, and Zaha Hadid, a murderers’ row of Pritzker laureates. Antonio doesn’t come from a family of collectors. He’s self-educated in the arts and says simply, “I’ve always been interested in art and architecture.” But he thinks in terms of the collecting big leagues. “You see Peter Brant do this for Stephanie Seymour,” he says of his multiple portrait commissions, “but I do it for myself! I want to surpass that.” http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/robbie-antonio-museum-of-me
Arguably the biggest collector in the Philippines, Robbie Antonio has only began collecting modern and contemporary art in 2005, but his collection is already very established including works by artists such as Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and Takashi Murakami. http://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/features/top-10-young-art-collectors/
MARIA ASUNCION ARAMBURUZABALA Do you love Corona beer? Thank María Asunción Aramburuzabala’s family. Her grandfather cofounded the brewery in the 1920s, and she grew up an heir to Grupo Modelo, which owns it. In 2013, Anheuser-Busch Inbev paid more than $20 billion to fully acquire the company, giving Aramburuzabala a considerable payout. She is one of the richest women in Mexico and now chairs Tresalia Capital, which invests in a wide array of ventures. Little information is publicly available about her art collection, but she is said to be a regular on the art-fair circuit, and in 2010 the New York Times had her at Art Basel Miami Beach looking to acquire work for “a multi-story penthouse she owns in Miami Beach.” http://www.artnews.com/top200/maria-asuncion-aramburuzabala/
Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala & family on Forbes Lists #233 Billionaires (2016), #5 in Mexico, #265 in 2015 Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, her sister Lucrecia Aramburuzabala and their mother Lucrecia Larregui together inherited a controlling stake in Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo -- maker of Corona beer -- when her father, Pablo Aramburuzabala, died in 1995. Maria's grandfather cofounded the brewery in 1925. In 2013, Anheuser-Busch Inbev bought the 50% of Grupo Modelo it did not already own for $20.1 billion in cash. http://www.forbes.com/profile/maria-asuncion-aramburuzabala/
Depuis un mois, la presse mexicaine spécule sur les vraies raisons du "mariage du siècle", célébré dans l'intimité samedi 26 février, non loin de Mexico. Devant une quarantaine de parents et d'amis, Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, la plus riche héritière du Mexique, a épousé Tony Garza, ambassadeur des Etats-Unis à Mexico et proche du président George Bush. Jolie brune de 41 ans, mère divorcée de deux enfants, Maria Asuncion, surnommée Mariasun, pèse 1,5 milliard de dollars, selon la dernière estimation de la revue Forbes. Emigrant basque sans le sou, son grand-père a fondé la brasserie Modelo, qui produit la Corona, aujourd'hui au cinquième rang mondial des ventes de bière. Mariasun est devenue vice-présidente du Grupo Modelo à la mort de son père. Dans le monde machiste des affaires mexicaines, elle s'est taillé une réputation de "dame de fer". En 2000, elle a acquis pour 600 millions de dollars une participation dans le groupe Televisa, le géant mexicain de la télévision. D'origine modeste, Tony Garza est né il y a quarante-cinq ans à Brownsville, au Texas, à la frontière avec le Mexique, où ses grands-parents mexicains avaient émigré. Son père y tenait une station-service. Diplôme d'avocat en poche, le jeune Tony se lance dans la politique du côté républicain dans cet Etat démocrate de longue date. En 1994, il participe activement à la campagne de George Bush, qui devient gouverneur du Texas et le nomme secrétaire d'Etat. Ami personnel du futur président, il figure parmi les cent Latinos les plus influents aux Etats-Unis, selon la revue Negocios hispanos, et obtient l'ambassade à Mexico. "Tony et Mariasun ne peuvent s'empêcher de se toucher. Ils s'embrassent comme des adolescents en s'appelant mi amor", raconte Kevin Sullivan, du Washington Post, qui a recueilli durant trois heures les confidences du couple. Ils se sont connus il y a plus de deux ans, lors d'un dîner. Mariasun sortait alors avec un banquier. Célibataire sans relation sentimentale connue, Tony s'occupait de ses chiens et de sa collection d'œuvres d'art. En octobre 2004, il montre ses toiles de maîtres à Mariasun ; le premier baiser tourne au coup de foudre. "On ne parle plus que de ce mariage, qui soulève beaucoup d'interrogations, dit Guadalupe Loaeza, chroniqueuse des riches Mexicains. L'ambassadeur avait l'air heureux seul. El dio el braguetazo (il a touché le gros lot). On dit qu'il veut être gouverneur du Texas et qu'il aura besoin de beaucoup d'argent pour sa campagne. Pour elle, s'associer à un politicien proche du président Bush ne peut que favoriser ses affaires." http://www.lemonde.fr/a-la-une/article/2005/03/02/le-mariage-du-siecle-qui-deboussole-les-mexicains_400017_3208.html
MARIA ARENA & WILLIAM BELL Location: Los Angeles Employment: Television production, creator and executive producer of the The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful Art Collection: Modern and contemporary art http://www.artfortune.com/collectors-8/
Maria Arena Bell (born March 10, 1963) is an American novelist, television and freelance writer, as well as a Los Angeles-based philanthropist and patron of the arts. She is the former head writer and executive producer of the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Arena_Bell
Maria, the former head writer of CBS’s The Young and the Restless, a chair of the National Art Awards, and a former board co-chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), got her start collecting modestly priced George Hurrell photos, and has always favored the work of idiosyncratic contemporary producers like Francesco Vezzoli and Mark Ryden. Her husband Bill’s taste tends toward the more iconic, including works by Marcel Duchamp. Early in their collecting career together, the Bells were drawn to Andy Warhol, but, as they recently told the New York Observer, they wanted to look to more contemporary producers—and deemed Jeff Koons an appropriate choice. These days, they have amassed a substantial collection of works by Koons, along with many other mega names. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/top-200-art-collectors-2015-part-one-286048
Collecting art is a shared passion for Maria Arena and William Bell Jr. Before their marriage, Maria was buying vintage George Hurrell Hollywood photographs. Now the couple, of soap-opera fame, own works by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, and many other leading figures—a Plexiglas sculpture of a Hoover vacuum cleaner by Jeff Koons occupies pride of place in their living room. Maria has also dedicated a good part of her life to philanthropic endeavors in the art world—service which springs from a belief that everyone should have access to the arts. She recently joined the board of MoMA PS1. The arts, as she told the Los Angeles Times, “are the things that give you solace, give you happiness and make you who you are. Everybody should have them.” The Bells also own the Koons aluminum sculpture Play-Doh (1994–2014), a vastly enlarged replica of a multicolored mound of modeling clay. They waited decades for him to perfect the piece, funding its creation along the way. http://www.artnews.com/top200/maria-arena-and-william-bell-jr/
How did you begin collecting art? I studied art history in college and loved art from an education standpoint. I started collecting when I moved to Hollywood to work as a writer in the 1980s. The first things I bought were George Hurrell vintage Hollywood photographs, and I still own that collection. Andy Warhol loved those old Hurrell film stills, and that was the beginning of my being a collector and loving living with art. Then I met my husband when we were in our mid-20s, and collecting is something that has been incredible for us. We buy some things together and he has an extraordinary collection that he spearheads. He is really the passionate collector, and I’m more interested in a very eclectic group of artists that just speak to me personally. How do you decide today what to add to your own collection? I have a very personal collection of artists whose work I respond to. I’m in my office now looking at work by Mark Ryden, Francesco Vezzoli, and other young artists. I am really drawn to things that speak to me, and they don't all really make sense as a collection. Some are quirkier than others, like Ryden, who is sort of outside the rigors of the market and attentions of the art world. Bill's collection is very focused on just a few artists in depth, while the collection that I've built is very insignificant in comparison. My main connection to the visual art world has been through philanthropy. http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/how_i_collect/how_i_collect_maria_bell-51586
HÉLÈNE & BERNARD ARNAULT Bernard Arnault, né Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault le 5 mars 1949 à Roubaix dans le Nord, est un homme d'affaires français, propriétaire du groupe de luxe LVMH, dont il est le président-directeur général. Il est à la tête, entre autres, du Groupe familial Arnault, du Groupe Arnault et du holding Christian Dior. Bernard Arnault est la deuxième fortune française. En 2016 selon le magazine Forbes sa fortune est estimée à 36 milliards de dollars américains il est donc placé lui et sa famille quatorzième sur la liste des milliardaires du monde du magazine Forbes. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault
Chairman and chief executive officer of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Arnault is the richest man in France. His newest creation, the Frank Gehry–designed Louis Vuitton Foundation, opened in the Bois de Boulogne this past October (see As a Museum, Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris Disappoints), with commissioned works by the likes of Olafur Eliasson, Ellsworth Kelly, Sarah Morris, and Taryn Simon. His collection spans many thousands of contemporary and modern artworks. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/top-200-art-collectors-2015-part-one-286048
Bernard Arnault agite les musées L’exposition de la collection Chtchoukine à la Fondation Louis Vuitton marque la montée en puissance des fondations privées. Courez à la Fondation Louis Vuitton. Allez voir les 127 tableaux et sculptures que le Russe Sergueï Chtchoukine a achetés au début du XXe siècle. Allez-y, parce que c’est éblouissant, inédit, et qu’on ne reverra pas de sitôt un tel attelage : 29 Picasso, 22 Matisse, 12 Gauguin, 8 Cézanne. Avec en prime Courbet, Monet, Derain ou Signac. Les salles Gauguin, Picasso et Matisse sont à chavirer. Même les Russes ne peuvent voir ce que l’on voit à Paris – les œuvres appartiennent à deux musées, Pouchkine à Moscou et l’Ermitage à Saint-Pétersbourg. Il y aura un avant et un après-Chtchoukine, mais pas uniquement en raison de la qualité de l’exposition. L’événement symbolise la montée en puissance de fondations privées au détriment des musées publics. Il y a dix ans, Chtchoukine aurait été présenté au Grand Palais, avec un mécénat de Bernard Arnault et de son groupe de luxe LVMH. Aujourd’hui, c’est Bernard Arnault qui orchestre et abrite l’exposition dans sa Fondation Louis Vuitton, construite par Frank Gehry au bois de Boulogne. C’est un changement d’époque, que résume un tableau de Gauguin qui sert d’étendard à l’événement – deux Tahitiennes nues. Son titre : Eh quoi, tu es jalouse ? Oui, les musées ont de quoi être jaloux. Car ils n’ont pas les moyens de suivre. http://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2016/10/28/bernard-arnault-fait-peur-aux-musees_5021774_1655012.html
Hier soir, plusieurs dizaines de célébrités étaient ainsi conviées à prendre part aux festivités pour découvrir en avant-première ce nouveau bâtiment iconique. Repérées sur les lieux, Marion Cotillard et Michelle Williams. Les deux actrices de charme étaient respectivement accompagnées des directeurs artistiques des maisons dont elle sont les égéries, Raf Simons (Dior) et Nicolas Ghesquière (Louis Vuitton). Les journalistes Claire Chazal et Laurence Ferrarri - venue aux côtés de son mari, Renaud Capuçon - avaient également répondu présent, à l'instar de la réalisatrice américaine Sofia Coppola ou bien encore du mannequin éthiopien Liya Kebede. Lumineuse, la belle Natalia Vodianova s'est affichée resplendissante de beauté au bras de son compagnon, l'homme d'affaires Antoine Arnault. Près de six mois après la naissance de leur petit Maxim, le top de 32 ans arbore d'ores et déjà une silhouette impeccable. Alain Delon, Pierre Bergé, Bernadette Chirac, Laurent Dassault et Jack Lang sont apparus devant les photographes, au même titre que de nombreuses personnalités issues de l'industrie mode. Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, Sidney Toledano (PDG de Christian Dior Couture), pour ne citer qu'eux, étaient tous de la fête. Discret mais remarqué, le Prince Albert II de Monaco s'est joint à Bernard Arnault et son épouse, Hélène Mercier-Arnault, pour une session de portraits. http://www.parismatch.com/People/Spectacles/Les-celebrites-francaises-conviees-a-l-inauguration-de-la-Fondation-Louis-Vuitton637198
LAURA & JOHN ARNOLD John Arnold on Forbes Lists #232 Forbes 400 (2016), #227 in 2015, #688 Billionaires (2016), #248 in United States http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-arnold/
John Douglas Arnold (born 1974) is an American billionaire and former hedge fund manager who specializes in natural gas trading. His firm, Centaurus Advisors, LLC, was a Houston-based hedge fund that specialized in trading energy products.[2][3] Arnold announced his retirement from running the hedge fund on May 2, 2012. (...) In 2010, the Arnolds signed the Giving Pledge, a commitment taken by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to give away half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes. In 2011, Arnold donated over $100 million to different causes including the Laura and John Arnold Foundation which they founded. In 2012, they gave away or pledged $423 million. The Laura and John Arnold Foundation states that it focuses on three main areas: criminal justice, education, and public accountability. On June 26, 2012, the Foundation launched the ERIN Project, a powerful tool to help analyze the national education landscape and on August 15, 2012, the Foundation launched the Giving Library to offer philanthropists an innovative way to enhance their strategic giving. On July 1, 2013, the New Jersey Attorney General, Anne Milgram, and the foundation launched a data driven risk management electronic system to assist employees of the Criminal Justice department in their decision making. The foundation funds the Nutrition Science Initiative in San Diego, where Dr. Peter Attia and Gary Taubes are trying to find the cause of obesity. The foundation backs the Action Now Initiative (ANI) which in turn funds The Nutrition Coalition (TNC) which backed Nina Teicholz when she wrote an investigative piece for The BMJ. During the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, the foundation announced that it would be donating $10 million in emergency funds to the Head Start program so that some 7,000 kids from low-income families could continue to receive educational services. The programs were at risk because their Federal grants were up for renewal after October 1. The federal government reinstated Head Start funding in a deal approved by Congress on January 13, 2014. Arnold has funded various politically-oriented organizations, including Engage Rhode Island. Many of these organizations advocate pension fund reform, encourage state and local governments to reduce benefits to workers and to invest assets in riskier investments such as hedge funds. Some have criticized his efforts, saying that hedge fund managers, such as himself, collect generous sums in fees for managing the funds, while the workers are left with reduced pensions. In 2016, it was disclosed that he had funded continuous aerial surveillance of Baltimore, Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Arnold
When he was 38, John Arnold closed his Centaurus Energy hedge fund to focus on philanthropy with his wife, Laura, a former lawyer. In 2008 they started the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, which focuses on funding initiatives in criminal-justice reform, K-12 education, public accountability, and more. While little information is available about their collection, the New York Times reported in 2010 that Robert McClain, a Houston art adviser, acquired a prime 1966 Gerhard Richter figurative work for the Arnolds at Sotheby’s New York for $13.2 million. The couple have pledged to give away more than half of their wealth during their lifetimes. http://www.artnews.com/top200/laura-and-john-arnold/
As a former hedge fund manager, John D. Arnold has committed himself to art collecting and philanthropy after his retirement from his hedge fund career. He collects with his wife Laura. Their collection focuses on post-war as well as contemporary art, with a special interest in Abstract Expressionist and Cubism works by artist such as Willem de Kooning and Pablo Picasso. http://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/features/top-10-young-art-collectors/
HANS RASMUS ASTRUP Location: Oslo, based in London Employment: Shipping- and finance-related activities Art Collection: Contemporary art http://www.artfortune.com/collectors-8/
Billionaire Hans Rasmus Astrup can trace his family in Norway back some 600 years, according to a report in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten in 2012. The heir to a substantial shipping and real-estate empire, he has successfully grown that inheritance into a personal fortune. Astrup is a deep collector of avant-garde Norwegian and international art, with some 1,500 works. His private museum, the Astrup Fearnley Museet, first opened in Oslo in 1993, and in 2012 moved to a Renzo Piano-designed building with around 45,000 square feet of gallery space. http://www.artnews.com/top200/hans-rasmus-astrup/
Norwegian businessman and art collector Hans Rasmus Astrup has decided to transfer his most central companies to a charitable foundation that will supports cultural projects, including the Astrup Fearnley collection in Oslo. Astrup's intention is to secure a stabile and long-term ownership in the Astrup Fearnley group, and as result build the foundation for the further development of existing core values as well as new projects. The 74-year-old business man is one of Norway's richest men, and is valued at well over NOK 4,7 billion. Astrup is the sole owner and chairman of one of the world's leading shipping firms, but most of all he is known as an art collector with a collection at a very high international level. Much of his collection is already on display at the Astrup Fearnley museum at Tjuvholmen in Oslo, designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano. The collection has so far this year had more than 175 000 visitors. The new foundation's guidelines describe that the money can be used to buy both international and Norwegian modern art. The condition is that the art must be available to display as part of the Astrup Fearnley Collection, so that the pieces can also be accessible for the public. http://norwaypost.no/index.php/culture/museums/29361-norwegian-billionaire-establishes-trust-fund-for-art
In Oslo, global star Renzo Piano redefines the capital’s post-industrial shoreline with a glass-roofed contemporary art museum that celebrates its seaside location. Elegantly positioned at the end of a boardwalk along the Oslo fjord, the Astrup Fearnley Museet’s giant glass and steel roof grabs your eye from afar. The double-curved structure is a section of a toroid, its ceramic fritted glass and wooden louvres extending past the building’s edges to protect two canal-side promenades that lead to a beach and a ferry terminal. It almost touches the ground near the sea, and then stretches up to shelter the museum’s entrance. Resembling a sail, a breaking wave or a bird’s wing, the roof expresses architecture in a taut lyric mode. Visitors don’t just happen on this private museum of contemporary art by accident. They come to see the Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s first project in Scandinavia. A global superstar with offices in Paris, Geneva and New York, Piano has built museums from Sarajevo to San Francisco. “Making architecture in Oslo is not different from other cities, but the difference is the vicinity of the site and the sea, and at the same time being in an urban context,” says RPBW associate Olaf de Nooyer. The workshop’s renown has helped the new museum draw over 7,000 patrons a week since it opened to the public last fall. Gallery-goers are also coming for the art. On display is a private collection started by the family of Norwegian shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley. The holdings reflect the influence of Hans Rasmus Astrup, who began buying art in the ’60s, and they include major works by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Cindy Sherman. “We have a special concept of collecting individual artists rather than historical groupings,” says museum director Gunnar Kvaran. “That means we have three or four really major collections.” http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/mast-appeal/
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