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Is Your Organization Adequately Paying Artists?

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie June 7, 2023June 8, 2023

W.A.G.E., which offers certifications for institutions based on their artist compensation, has launched a new platform and updated guidelines.

Posted inArt

Where Artists and Amazon Workers Align

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd January 30, 2020January 31, 2020

I saw The Fulfillment Center months ago, but as time passed it wore on me and I became increasingly concerned about the workers — I mean artists — and more ambivalent about the commodities — I mean art.

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W.A.G.E. Asks Artists to Demand Payment and Withhold Content from 2019 Whitney Biennial

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber January 23, 2019January 23, 2019

In a letter sent this afternoon, the organization urged, “We invite you to use your exceptional status as a worker who can claim both the freedom to dissent and the right to be paid to withhold your labor in solidarity with Whitney staff who cannot.”

The exterior of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (photo courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania)
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Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art Is the First Museum Certified by W.A.G.E.

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 23, 2018March 25, 2018

Many nonprofit and artist-run spaces have earned Working Artists and the Greater Economy’s stamp of approval since it launched its certification process in 2014, but the ICA is the first museum to do so.

Posted inIn Brief

The Carnegie International Becomes First Biennial-Style Exhibition Certified by W.A.G.E.

by Claire Voon December 5, 2017

The 17th edition of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s flagship, quinquennial exhibition will open in October 2018 with full W.A.G.E. certification.

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W.A.G.E. Calls for New Museum to Fully Compensate Artists

by Claire Voon May 16, 2016May 23, 2016

Artist advocacy group Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is calling for the New Museum to receive certification to ensure all its artists earn fair pay as the building plans for expansion, funded by an ongoing $80 million capital campaign.

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Finally, a Forum on Resale Royalties Brings Artists into the Conversation

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan July 23, 2015July 23, 2015

Spurred by the reintroduction of the ART Act (American Royalties Too) to Congress, last night Artists Space hosted a public forum on the issue of artist resale royalties (ARRs).

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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim Closes Museum #GuggOccupied

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 1, 2015May 6, 2015

At noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of G.U.L.F. unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s board of trustees to discuss the labor conditions at its Abu Dhabi site.

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How Much Will Artists Be Paid Under the New W.A.G.E. Certification Program?

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 14, 2014October 18, 2014

Last Friday, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (aka W.A.G.E.) announced that they will be rolling out their new W.A.G.E. Certification program, which promises to be a “paradigm-shifting model for the remuneration of artistic labor.” We had some questions for the organization.

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Artists Still Not Getting Paid (But at Least We’re Starting to Talk About It)

by Jillian Steinhauer June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

A campaign in the United Kingdom called Paying Artists released a report with a series of recommendations for getting artists paid, an urgency they claim based on their finding that “71% of artists exhibiting in publicly-funded galleries received no fee for their work.”

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How Are Artists Getting Paid?

by Alexis Clements July 22, 2013July 24, 2013

How are artists who have been systematically denied fair wages and access to basic services like healthcare and unemployment protections gaining access to those things today?

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W.A.G.E. Calls Out Documenta for Not Paying Artists

by Jillian Steinhauer February 11, 2013February 14, 2013

Everything sounds worse taken out of context, but a new video released by New York art activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) starts with a pretty damning quote from Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the curator of art mega-exhibition Documenta (also known annoyingly as dOCUMENTA).

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