In 1999 ARTnews asked museum directors, curators, and art critics around the world to name "the top ten artists working today." The ten artists mentioned- most. often, whom the magazine listed in alphabetical order, were:

Matthew Barney Louise Bourgeois Jasper Johns Ilya Kabakov Agnes Martin Bruce Nauman Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter Cindy Sherman Jeff Wall

Source. "The Ten Best Living Artists,' ARTnews, 98 (December 1999) 137-147

A Major Postmodernist.

In the 1990s performance artist Cindy Sherman was recognized by many critics and museum directors as a major American artist. In fact, as Barbara Pollack of ARTnews has commented, Sherman "put a face on postmodernism." She first gained critical acclaim with her Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980), in which she satirized stereotypical images of women in Hollywood movies. Since then Sherman has become well known for her studies of identity and gender stereotypes in works...