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W Magazine Publishes List of the “Who’s Who” in the Art World

Tuesday, July 1st, 2014

W Magazine has published a power list of 60 luminary artists, collectors, gallerists and other art world leaders, including among them, Michael Slotover and Amanda Sharp (co-founders of Frieze Art Fair), Larry Gagosian, and Kara Walker.  “The weirdest thing I get all the time is ‘I thought you’d be shorter,'” Walker says. “I think it’s because I put a lot of small, childlike bodies in my work: not-quite-to-scale caricatures enacting terrible power games. Some folks see the figures and assume they’re based on me.” (more…)