The fourth edition of the Collective Selfie was recently published. With the Selfies, Beeldende Kunst Nederland (BKNL) makes figures and data on visual art in the Netherlands visible.

Research firm Berenschot examined the functioning of the Council for Culture in the period 2013-2018. The Council for Culture is the statutory advisory body of government and parliament in the field of art, culture, heritage and media. The council is independent and provides solicited and unsolicited advice on current policy issues and subsidy applications. The council is legally bound to...

Only 13% of the works on display in Dutch museums were made by women. This is the conclusion of the study The Position of Women Artists in Four Art Disciplines in The Netherlands, commissioned by Mama Cash and conducted by Astrid Kerchman and Pauline Salet. The position of women in other disciplines could also be improved.

On Oct. 2, the Museum Association announced its 2017 museum figures. The association conducts annual surveys of trends among its 435 member museums.

This year BK-informatie is celebrating its 40th year. We thought that this was an appropriate time to conduct research among our subscribers. What do they think of BK-informatie, what are their needs, what do they want to retain and what do they want to change?

The research Glass Ceilings in the Art Market, the largest empirical study ever conducted in the field of gender discrimination in the cultural sector, shows that the art market has a glass ceiling for female visual artists.

Commissioned by the Netherlands Gallery Association, research is regularly conducted on the art market in the Netherlands.

In July of this year, the Research Center for Education and the Labor Market (ROA) of the University of Maastricht published a study on the labor market position of artist graduates and their retrospective view of the education they received in the first five to six years after graduating from a college art program.

The Flemish arts labor market is characterized by a high degree of project-based work. Although artists spend (just) more than half of their time on artistic work, less than half of their income comes from those activities. Teaching is an important source of income for many professional artists.

Last summer, Eurostat ("Your key to European statistics") published the third edition of Culture Statistics. Culture Statistics 2016 provides insight into European cultural statistics and analyzes, among other things, the labor market, participation, digitization and international trade in the cultural sector.

Artist fees are often a balancing item in the budget for both artists and art institutions.

Research on buying behavior among art buyers.

For the second time, a list of the most important Dutch art collectors has been compiled. This Top 100 was compiled under the responsibility of the National Art Platform by Stichting Kunstweek and includes the hundred most important living Dutch art collectors with a collection averaging many hundreds of works and a value of at least half a million euros. In...

Research on the position of artists in the labor market.