This isn’t the first time that the museum's director has taken a strong stance to diversify the collection: the museum sold works by Andy Warhol and other white male artists at Sotheby’s in 2018 and used the proceeds to acquire pieces by women and minorities.
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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