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Data Suggests Artists More Drawn to Cities than Ever
Confirmation that, yes, artists are still flocking to Brooklyn.
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Study Claims 80.5% of Artists Represented by NYC’s Top 45 Galleries Are White
How diverse are the artists shown at New York's art galleries? Well …
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Breaking Down the Demographics of the New Whitney Museum's Inaugural Exhibition
We took a look at the cultural and gender breakdowns of all the artists in the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in its new building to assess how fresh these perspectives really are.
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Report Finds NYC's Art World 200% Whiter Than Its Population [UPDATED]
With the Whitney Biennial, the withdrawal of the Yams Collective, and questions of race fresh in our minds, the Museum of Arts and Design opens its new biennial, NYC Makers, tomorrow. Included is a project that offers another stark reminder of the imbalanced demographics of the art world: Census Rep
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The Perplexing Role of Metrics in the Arts
Metrics are everything these days — they're used to find ways to measure outcomes, finding ways to prove that your effects are having an impact, finding [insert buzzword and buzzverb], or [insert another buzzword and buzzverb], etc, etc. If in no other setting, most people are at least vaguely aware
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What Does the US Arts Community Look Like? NEA Study Sheds Some Light
There are 2.1 million "artists" in the United States, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. The national arts organization has just released a study that examines the demographics of the country's artists. Here are some notable facts …