Art Market - Statistics & Facts

The arts & culture market in general is a very diverse market. It is estimated that each year about 150 billion U.S. dollars are spent by consumers on arts and culture-related goods in the U.S. This spending, however, did not just include expenditure on art museums and exhibitions but also encompass spending on books, recorded audio, video media, tickets to live performing arts and movies.


The arts, in the more narrow sense, are to a great extent dependent on funding, drawing funding and other resources from a broad pool of sources. Among these contributors are the government (federal, state and local), foundations, other non-profit organizations, corporations and private philanthropists. Federal arts and culture spending in the U.S. for example was at about 1.94 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, a per capita spending of six U.S. dollars.

Organizations that profit from such funding include art museums. The funding allows these museums to put together exhibitions which attract more than 30 million visitors per year in the U.S. One of the most visited art museums worldwide in 2015 was the the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, over 6.5 million visitors.

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Consumer expenditure on arts and cultural-related goods in the U.S.

151.71bn USD

Total U.S. federal arts and culture spending

1.94bn USD
Expenditure, participation & workforce
Consumer expenditure on arts and cultural-related goods in the U.S. 151.71bn USD Total attendance at performing arts events in the U.S. 73.54m Share of Americans who consider culture a vital attribute for a vacation destination 37% Workers in arts and culture occupations in the U.S. 1.59m Average yearly salary in artistic occupations in the U.S. 53,859 USD Share of U.S. post war and contemporary art auction sales 47%
Arts funding
Total U.S. federal arts and culture spending 1.94bn USD Federal arts and culture spending per capita in the U.S 6.13 USD Corporate arts and culture funding in the U.S. 2.15bn USD Total private philanthropy given to arts and culture organizations in the U.S. 16.66bn USD Number of U.S. households giving money to arts or cultural organizations 20.83m
Galleries and exhibitions
Number of visitors to the Louvre in Paris 7.4m Number of visitors to the British Museum in London 6.42m Number of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York 7.01m Number of visitors to the worlds leading art exhibition (Picasso Sculpture, New York) 851,385 Number of daily visitors to the art exhibition Post-Impressionist Masterpieces (Rio de Janeiro) 9,700

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Expenditure, participation & workforce
Consumer expenditure on arts and cultural-related goods in the U.S. 151.71bn USD Total attendance at performing arts events in the U.S. 73.54m Share of Americans who consider culture a vital attribute for a vacation destination 37% Workers in arts and culture occupations in the U.S. 1.59m Average yearly salary in artistic occupations in the U.S. 53,859 USD Share of U.S. post war and contemporary art auction sales 47%
Arts funding
Total U.S. federal arts and culture spending 1.94bn USD Federal arts and culture spending per capita in the U.S 6.13 USD Corporate arts and culture funding in the U.S. 2.15bn USD Total private philanthropy given to arts and culture organizations in the U.S. 16.66bn USD Number of U.S. households giving money to arts or cultural organizations 20.83m
Galleries and exhibitions
Number of visitors to the Louvre in Paris 7.4m Number of visitors to the British Museum in London 6.42m Number of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York 7.01m Number of visitors to the worlds leading art exhibition (Picasso Sculpture, New York) 851,385 Number of daily visitors to the art exhibition Post-Impressionist Masterpieces (Rio de Janeiro) 9,700

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