Something else. Pushkin

I'm Helen Molesworth and from Pushkin

I'm Helen Molesworth and from Pushkin Industries

Something else and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Death of an Artist.

In our first six episodes, we talked a lot about the art world, because there's no way to talk about what happened to

Anna without also talking about the art world and there's no way to talk about the art

world without talking about how commercial art galleries and museums have a history of what feels like overwhelming racism and sexism.

But surely now in the 21st century, things would be different,

especially in the wake of the Me Too and Black Lives Matter

movements when museums began publicly touting

their dedication to diversity, right?

The art world overall overall, believes in progress and believes in itself as a pioneer of progress.

The consensus in the art world tends to be that we are heading in the right direction.

And we just weren't sure if that was true.

We wanted to apply some facts to that

to see if it were, in fact, the case.

This is Charlotte Burns, an arts writer turned data minor. She and

her colleague Julia Halprin wanted to quantify how big the disparities in the

art world really were and see if those disparities

were actually shrinking. They started by gathering information for museums

about artworks made by African American artists. The first data study we did in 2018,

there was enormous media attention at that point

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