Art Trends

THE TOP TEN LIVING ARTISTS

In 1999 ARTnews asked museum directors, curators, and art critics around the world to name "the top ten artists working today." The ten artists mentioned most often, whom the magazine listed in alphabetical order, were:

Matthew Barney

Louise Bourgeois

Jasper Johns

Ilya Kabakov

Agnes Martin

Bruce Nauman

Sigmar Polke

Gerhard Richter

Cindy Sherman

Jeff Wall

Source:

"The Ten Best Living Artists," ARTnews, 98 (December 1999):137-147.

New Attempts to Define "Art."

In the 1990s even the most knowledgeable and sophisticated critics were some-times hard-pressed to distinguish brilliance from schlock, with conservative critics bemoaning the...

[The entire page is 2949 words long]

Join eNotes

The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:

eNotes Pass