Contemporary Art Forum

Artnews recently published a list of top 100 works of art of this century. In their own opinion at least. Top ten follows:

10. Doris Salcedo: Untitled installation for Istanbul Biennial
9. Harun Farocki: Eye Machine 1
8. Teresa Margolles: What else could we talk about?
7. Camille Henrot: Gross Fatigue
6. Christian Marclay: The Clock
5. Cameron Rowland: Attica Series Desk
4. Hito Steyerl: How not to be seen. A Fucking Didactic Mov. File
3. Kerry James Marchall: Untitled (Studio)
2. Adrian Piper: Adrian Moves to Berlin
1. Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message. The Message is Death

Is it too soon to put this list? What is alternative top spot holders?

This is pretentiousness to compel such lists in 2025. I can equally nominate for top ten spots:

Takashi Murakami
Damien Hirst
Maurizio Cattelan
Julie Mehretu
Gerhard Richter
Jeff Wall
Andreas Gursky
Luc Tuymans
Dana Schutz
Lisa Yuskavage
Nicholaas Chiao for Idols of Niertismus and Solar Milk
List can be continued

But only time will tell what will be in century 22 perceived as Mona Lisa, Las Meninas, Anathomy Lesson of Nicholaes Tulp, The Kiss, Persistence of Memory, Demoiselles d'Avignon, Fountain and other key splendor of art history.

Yayoi Kusama also belongs there. Maybe not in the top ten but Mihail Chemiakin should be there.

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency 1985. Oh!!! It's a century before. But Arthur Jafa is something dangerously similar

If this forum to survive 25 years we'll definetely return to this theme 25 years later.