“I would have thought the needle would have moved more”
Just 2.37% of museum acquisitions over the past decade have been of work by African American artists
“From a dealer’s point of view, there is a huge opportunity”
The combined auction value of work by African American artists is $2.2bn—just 1.2% of the global total
“They can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks”
Case studies: three artists from different generations
#39 “The natural disposition is to not want to believe the numbers because it just can’t be this bad”
Podcast with Valentino Carlotti, Allan Schwartzman and Julia Halperin
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