Best known as Christie Brinkley's philandering, scandal-tainted ex-husband, Cook is an architect who designs Shingle style homes for moderately wealthy Hamptonites.

Pennoyer is the tradition-minded architect who runs the architecture studio Peter Pennoyer Architects.

Professional firebrand Norman Siegel speaks—and loudly—for progressive causes in New York City, whether it's with the NYCLU or as a candidate for public advocate.

One of the hottest artists on the contemporary scene, the heavily-tattooed Violette is known for his paintings and sculptures riffing on murder and teenage suicide.

Kehinde Wiley

Maurizio Cattelan

Brooklyn-based video artist Cory Arcangel still plays with video games, but unlike other 20-something guys with gaming consoles in their hands, it's actually part of his art.

David Zwirner

Yvonne Force Villareal

Zach Feuer

As head of the Museum of Modern Art since 1995, Lowry has presided over the museum's massive expansion—and courted plenty of controversy along the way.

Saltz is New York Magazine's art critic known for his direct, unequivocal opinions and willingness to champion young artists, so much so that he landed a judge spot on Bravo's artist competition show Work of Art. He's also half of one of the art world's most prominent power couples—his wife is Times critic Roberta Smith.

Known for her life-size installations of paper silhouettes, Walker's arresting work explores race, gender, and violence.

Goldin invented the gritty hipster photograph: Her pictures of friends crossdressing, doing drugs, and having sex helped define a vivid, grungy aesthetic that's been popular for more than two decades.

"The most important American artist of his generation" according to Michael Kimmelman, Barney became an art world darling in the '90s with his freakish film series The Cremaster Cycle. He's also Bjork's baby daddy.

Jules de Balincourt

Angela Strassheim

One of the biggest names in contemporary art, Currin is loved and hated for his primary subject matter: women with extremely large—and usually exposed—breasts. He's married to Rachel Feinstein.

Marcel Dzama

A fixture on the downtown art scene, Smith has been making influential feminist sculptures and prints since the early '80s.