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# 99% of the Art World
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/99-of-the-art-world/
- Published: 2011-10-05T13:01:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:32.000Z
- Description: If some in the art world are the 1%, most of us are the other 99%. [We Are the 99 Percent [http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11037150025] tumblelog]
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Occupy Wall Street, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/10/tumblr_lsj8g3phau1r25y9yo1_500.jpg "tumblr_lsj8g3PhAu1r25y9yo1_500")](http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11037150025?ref=hyperallergic.com)

If some in the art world are the 1%, most of us are the other 99%.

This image by a 25-year-old with a fine arts degree is one of dozens being posted every day on the [We Are the 99 Percent](http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11037150025?ref=hyperallergic.com) tumblelog that began on [August 23, 2011](http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/9289779051/we-are-the-99-percent?ref=hyperallergic.com), well before [#OccupyWallStreet](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/occupy-wall-street/).