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

One of the most influential of American photographers of the 20th Century, Friedlander's lens has chronicled American life for the past 50 years.

Minter is best known for her hyper-realistic paintings of women's body parts bound up in jewels and layered in makeup.

Jackson is a trendy young sculptor who satirizes Americana.

Working well into her nineties, Bourgeois kept churning out the sculptures that made her one of the most famous American artists of the past 30 years. She passed away in 2010.

Dubbed the "queen of the art world" in the 1980s, Boone is generally credited with—or blamed for—the commercialization of art.

Kim Heirston is a contemporary art advisor who helps the very wealthy spend their hard-earned (or not-so-hard-earned) money on very expensive artwork. She's also a fixture at fashionable art events around town.

Renowned sculptor Serra is the man behind those massive, abstract steel sculptures you've seen on college campuses and in public squares.

Alternately adored and despised by critics, Yuskavage's paintings of nude women with cartoonishly large breasts have made her one of the hottest art world stars.

Rohatyn is the founder of the Upper East Side contemporary gallery-cum-project-space Salon 94, which is located on the ground level of her multi-million dollar townhouse. She's also dabbled in television as a judge on Bravo's Work of Art.

Reich is a minimalist composer favored by fans of classical and rock alike. His repetitive, pulsing rhythms and spoken word samples have influenced everyone from Brian Eno to prog rockers like King Crimson.

Augustine is co-founder of Chelsea's Luhring Augustine Gallery, which has represented contemporary artists like Christopher Wool and Gregory Crewdson and resells works by older favorites like Jackson Pollock.

The former head of the flagship Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue, Dennison is now an executive at the auction house Sotheby's.

The daughter of disgraced financier Ivan Boesky, Marianne represents a slew of emerging artists at the gallery that bears her name.

Art world powerhouse Thelma Golden is the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

A New York art world fixture since the 1980s, Schnabel is as well known for his relentless self-promotion as for his work as a painter, conceptual artist, and filmmaker.

McGinley is a photographer who takes snaps of young hipsters having sex and doing drugs, and makes uptown collectors feel "with it."

A longtime social fixture and the daughter of the late Henryk de Kwiatkowski, Lulu runs the fabric design company Lulu DK.

Marino is an architect and interior designer who specializes in super-high-end retail spaces and super-high-end apartments.

One of the city's most prolific interior designers, Wolf is also the owner of the SoHo furniture and home accessories store VW Home.