Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is a New York-based activist group that focuses on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions, and establishing a sustainable model for best practices between cultural producers and the institutions that contract their labor.

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Frieze Magazine: W.A.G.E. on Being Curated

Dan Fox invited eight artists and artist groups to reflect on their relationships to curators and curatorial discourse for Frieze Magazine. Contributions by Daniel Buren, Ed Atkins, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nick Mauss, Tom Nicholson, Paulina Olowska, Slavs and Tatars, and W.A.G.E.

Art Workers Council Frankfurt/M (AWC FFM) interviews W.A.G.E.

Also check out AWC FFM's interview with Anarcho-Syndicalist trade union Freie Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter-Union (FAU, Free Workers Union) Frankfurt/M about the crisis, the so-called 'German model', working conditions and organizing in the cultural sector, and about the mobilization for the European day of action M31 on March 31, 2012. And the Free Class Ffm1 | Art Workers Council, Call for Demonstration against Wage Labor