at Sotheby’s and used the funds from the sale to buy 11 works by 10 artists, including women and minorities.
They found that from 2008 to 2018, just 11% of all acquisitions and 14% of exhibitions at 26 major American museums were by female artists. Just 11% of the works added to these museums’ permanent collections were by women. In another investigation, Halperin and Burns found that since 2008, just 2.37% of all acquisitions and gifts and 7.6% of all exhibitions at 30 leading American museums have been by African American artists.
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