Only 2% of Global Auction Sales by Women Artists

September 19th, 2019

A new study has found that only 2% of global art auction spending is on work by women. “When we set out to do this project, we were excited to track just how much things had changed for female artists,” syas Julia Halperin, artnet News executive editor. “So, it was quite disheartening for us to find that the numbers remained so low, and there had been so little measurable change. But we can’t solve a problem until we acknowledge it exists, and this project serves as an important reminder that we have a long way to go before we reach parity.”

Read more at The Guardian