Christie's 100 Must-Follow Art World Instagram Accounts
Christie's has unveiled a guide showcasing 100 Instagram accounts belonging to collectors, artists, curators, and tastemakers, presented in five parts. Among the highlighted artists are Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Banksy, and Cai Guo-Qiang. The curatorial voices featured include Eva Respini and Klaus Biesenbach, while tastemakers spotlighted are Pari Ehsan and Alice Rawsthorn. Recommended profiles encompass the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Notable collectors mentioned are Mohammed Afkhami, Yusaku Maezawa, and Kiran Nadar for Oriental art; Kasseem Dean and Jean Pigozzi for African and Black art; Dasha Zhukova and Cheech Marin for various collections; and Russell Tovey and Liberty Ross for Western art.
Key facts
- Christie's released a guide to 100 art world Instagram accounts in five installments.
- Artists include Cai Guo-Qiang, Banksy, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Daniel Arsham, Julie Curtiss, Rashid Johnson, and Simon Berger.
- Curators include Klaus Biesenbach, Eva Respini, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Cecilia Alemani.
- Tastemakers include Pari Ehsan, Alice Rawsthorn, Alexandre Errera, and Gianluca Longo.
- Recommended museums include Louisiana Museum, Ashmolean, White Cube, Mori Art Museum, CaixaForum, Peggy Guggenheim, and TBA21.
- Collector Yusaku Maezawa bought Basquiat's 'Untitled' for $110.5 million in 2017 and plans a lunar trip with SpaceX.
- Nadia Samdani and Rajeeb Samdani are opening a museum and sculpture park in Bangladesh.
- Kiran Nadar opened India's first private contemporary art museum in New Delhi with 6,000 works.
- Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile co-founded the Crypto Art Museum on Ethereum in 2020 and NFT marketplace Aorist.
- Cheech Marin will open a museum for Mexican-American art in California this year.
Entities
Artists
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Banksy
- Cindy Sherman
- Jeff Koons
- Jenny Holzer
- Daniel Arsham
- Julie Curtiss
- Rashid Johnson
- Simon Berger
- Yayoi Kusama
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Shirin Neshat
- Gary Simmons
- Kara Walker
- Beeple
- Pablo Picasso
- Damien Hirst
- Montien Boonma
- Ed Ruscha
- David Hammons
- Claude Lalanne
- Mark Bradford
- Alexander Calder
Institutions
- Christie's
- Neue Nationalgalerie
- Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
- Serpentine Gallery
- Venice Biennale
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- Ashmolean Museum
- White Cube
- Mori Art Museum
- CaixaForum
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection
- TBA21
- British Museum
- Guggenheim Museum
- Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
- Crypto Art Museum
- Aorist
- The Current
- Dib Bangkok
- LACMA
- Museo Berggruen
- Casa dei Tre Oci
- Tate
- MoMA
- Dairy Art Centre
- Fortnum & Mason
- Los Spatios Ibiza
- Bella Oaks
- Ariel Investments
- SpaceX
- The New York Times
- Vogue
- Cabana
Locations
- Berlin
- Germany
- Boston
- United States
- London
- United Kingdom
- Venice
- Italy
- Copenhagen
- Denmark
- Oxford
- Tokyo
- Japan
- Spain
- Vienna
- Austria
- New Delhi
- India
- Bangladesh
- Hong Kong
- China
- Los Angeles
- Cape Town
- South Africa
- Moscow
- Russia
- California
- Ibiza
- Bangkok
- Thailand
- New York
- Madrid