Recent studies highlight deep precarity in the art world, alongside a renewed push for fairer payment and resistance to ‘self-exploitation’
Artists earn only £6,020 on average from their practice, with many working multiple additional jobs to supplement their income
The inquiry into the arts sector’s ‘class ceiling’ follows renewed concern around diversity and exclusion
With 12 hours of talks (and only one 20-minute break) on a Saturday, the Serpentine Marathon illustrates how the art world plays by its own rules
‘The demand to be paid is a political one,’ says campaigning organization W.A.G.E.
The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics
A new survey of higher education degrees in the US says that fine art is the least valuable subject to specialize in
In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation
27 educators are taking the London gallery to an employment tribunal, demanding that they be recognized as employees
A survey of 1,016 visual artists across the world finds that the badges of professional success don’t necessarily equate to financial stability
The union of museum employees want to draw attention to problematic contract changes for staff healthcare and overtime
As Brooklyn Museum acquires Ed Clark’s Untitled (1978-80) from Frieze New York’s Spotlight section, Anne Pasternak explains the choice
