Short list

In their annual 500 best galleries feature Modern Painters Magazine aka BlouinArtinfo has listed the top galleries for Australia and New Zealand. For the Australians 20 galleries are noted spread across Adelaide (1), Brisbane (1), Melbourne (8) and Sydney (11). For New Zealand they list three: Hopkinson Mossman, Michael Lett and Starkwhite.
Images: top left John Reynolds at Starkwhite, right Michael Stevenson at Michale Lett and bottom Nick Austin at Hopkinson Mossman

Multiples

For curators and art writers here, from the Venice Biennale, the ten top hot words for labels and wall texts.
Conceit
Crystalise
Deploy
Deflect
Generative
Governing
Mines
Posit
Talisman
Stratified

1978

Jim Barr (Dowse Art Gallery)

Luit Bieringa (Manawatu Art Gallery)

Pat Day (National Art Gallery)

Austin Davies (Suter Art Gallery)

Ken Gorbey (Waikato Museum of Art and History)

Rodney Wilson (Robert McDougall Art Gallery)

Les Lloyd (Dunedin Public Art Gallery)

Bill Milbank (Sarjeant Gallery)

John Perry (Rotorua Art Gallery)

Ron O’Reilly (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery)

Ernest Smith (Auckland City Art Gallery)

Direction

Christina Barton (Adam Art Gallery)

Elizabeth Caldwell (City Gallery)

Julie Catchpole (Suter Art Gallery)

Fiona Ciaran (Aigantighe Art Gallery)

Rhana Devenport (Auckland Art Gallery)

Jenny Harper (Christchurch Art Gallery)

Penelope Jackson (Tauranga Art Gallery)

Courtney Johnston (Dowse Art Museum)

Charlotte Huddleston (St Paul St Gallery)

Helen Kedgley (Pataka)

Cherie Meecham (Waikato Museum of Art and History)

Melanie Oliver (Physics Room)

Caterina Riva (Artspace)

Linda Tyler (Gus Fisher Gallery)

The top 10 percent

It’s list season again as the Northern and first off the block is Art Review with its top 100 most influential people in the art world. Well rest easy it is much the same as last year with only two changes in the critical top 10. There are three women of the eleven chosen (the Serpentine gallery gets to have both its directors in place 10 which is their first time this high) and only two artists Ai Weiwei for his politics and Gerhard Richter for his muscle in the market. Larry Gagosian is up a place from last year at two and might be on the way to the top again as he was in 2010. He is one of three dealer gallerists on the top 10.Top this year is Documenta curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargeiv who you will remember also judged one of the Walters Prize finals. Last in at 100 is eponymous Slovenian Gallery owner Gregor Podnar. You can see the full 100 here.
Image: Carolyn Christov-Bakargeiv with Francis Upritchard’s award winning work for the 2008 Walters Prize.