How an Art Workers’ Collective is Using Transparency to Push for Change

Last June, the activist group Art + Museum Transparency dropped a bomb: a Google spreadsheet that disclosed art workers’ salaries. In just a few days, thousands of people shared it online, with workers at institutions of the caliber of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago making their annual incomes public. Founded at the end of May 2019 by a “nonhierarchical group of arts and museum workers who are friends and colleagues,&r