'Whirlwind' Swiss curator tops modern art's power playersSwiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurich, Switzerland, 1968) is a Swiss curator and art critic. In 1993, he founded the Museum Robert Walser and began to run the Migrateurs program at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where he served as a curator for contemporary art. was named the most powerful figure in the contemporary art world on Thursday, but Britain's Damien Hirst tumbled almost 50 places in ArtReview magazine's "power 100" list. Obrist, co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects at London's Serpentine Gallery The Serpentine Gallery is an art gallery in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, central London, which focuses on modern and contemporary art. Serpentine Gallery is one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art. , was described as "one of the most active and well-networked figures the contemporary art world has seen". The Guardian newspaper called him "not so much a curator as a human whirlwind" and noted it was the first time a curator, rather than an artist or a museum director, had topped the annual list, now in its eighth year. Obrist rose to the top spot from 35th place last year. ArtReview said the financial crisis had led to a large-scale shake-up of the rankings, with a third of last year's entries falling out of the annual top 100, with collectors suffering the most. Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the world's biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. , the prolific British collector who has helped the careers of artists such as Hirst and Tracey Emin, plummeted from number 14 in 2008 to number 72 this year. Hirst's company Science topped the list last year, but the recession and the drop in prices of his work have seen him downgraded to 48th. In a radical departure from his previous work, which often featured animals preserved in formaldehyde, Hirst is currently showing a collection of paintings of skulls in the formal setting of the Wallace Collection Wallace Collection: see under Wallace, Sir Richard. in London. Glenn D Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , comes second in the list, while the director of London's Tate, Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born April 27, 1946) is a curator, and is currently Director of the Tate Gallery, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. As such he is often involved in controversy. He was the driving force behind the creation of Tate Modern. , is third. The list, published in ArtReview's November issue, is compiled by the London-based magazine's staff, in consultation with a global network of contributing editors and an international panel. The top 20 of the ArtReview Power 100: 1. Hans Ulrich Obrist 2. Glenn D Lowry 3. Sir Nicholas Serota 4. Daniel Birnbaum 5. Larry Gagosian Larry Gagosian (born 1945, Los Angeles) is an art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries, with three locations in New York City (on Madison Avenue, West 24th St. and 21st St. 6. Francois Pinault 7. Eli Broad Eli Broad (born June 6, 1933) a native of Detroit, Michigan is a Jewish American billionaire who lives in Los Angeles, California. His last name is pronounced as rhyming with road. Broad is well known for his philanthropy and extensive art collection. 8. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood 9. Iwona Blazwick 10. Bruce Nauman 11. Iwan Wirth 12. David Zwirner 13. Jeff Koons 14. Jay Jopling 15. Marian Goodman 16. Agnes Gund 17. Takashi Murakami 18. Alfred Pacquement 19. Fischli and Weiss 20. Mike Kelley 
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