On a list of the world’s most influential art people, Gil Peretz ranks No. 50, according to Art Review Magazine. And who is Gil Peretz? “He’s a 52-year-old Puerto Rican who lives in Queens with his wife, his 22-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son. And what does he do? Are we soon to be favoured with one of his installations in Tate Modern’s turbine hall? Not even close. Has he got an unexpectedly large collection of hitherto unseen Breughels in his house in the Hamptons? Hardly. No, Perez is arguably the world’s most important doorman. He stands at the door of the Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in New York greeting clients and helping to organise auctions.”