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in other words

Everything you ever wanted to know about the art market but didn't know who to ask

This is a collaboration between In Other Words and artnet News

Special Issue: Tracing the Representation of African American Artists

Mapping the numbers

Infographics of the data

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BY Charlotte Burns
executive editor of In Other Words

AND Chelsea Perkins
project manager at AAP

Published 20 September 2018
In Analysis

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More from this collaboration: read other articles here

This issue of In Other Words

Special Issue: Tracing the Representation of African American Artists

“I would have thought the needle would have moved more” By Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin
“From a dealer’s point of view, there is a huge opportunity” By Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin
Mapping the numbers By Charlotte Burns and Chelsea Perkins
“They can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks” By Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin
#39 “The natural disposition is to not want to believe the numbers because it just can’t be this bad” By Charlotte Burns
Methodology By Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin
Charles White: A Retrospective By Antwaun Sargent
In Pictures: What Museums Have Been Acquiring By Chelsea Perkins
About Time By Kaitlin Chan

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