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Damien Hirst tumbles in art 'power' list.


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 has tumbled almost 50 places in a list of the contemporary art world's most powerful figures.

Damien Hirst has tumbled almost 50 places in a list of the contemporary art world's most powerful figures.

It looks like the recession could be to blame for the star's downfall in the Power 100.

The group behind the poll, ArtReview, says the financial turmoil of the last 12 months has blown around a third of last year's entries out of the line-up line-up
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1. people or things assembled for a particular purpose: Christmas TV line-up

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 altogether.

Top of the tree this year is 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. , 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.
.

He was described as "one of the most active and well-networked figures the contemporary art world has seen".

Last year, Science, the company behind Hirst's artistic production, marketing and publicity, was ranked number one.

ArtReview said that, at number 48 this year, Hirst was perhaps the most prominent casualty due to his stepping away from the limelight limelight: see calcium oxide.
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Early form of theatrical lighting. The incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816 was first employed in a theatre in 1837 and was widely used by the 1860s.
 following his straight-to-market auction at Sotheby's last year, which grossed Au111 million.

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