Follow the Money, Visual Arts, narrows the investigation of philanthropic giving to the art space, helping unveil the complex network that captures the flow of money from foundations to art institutions. The nodes of the network are mainly foundations, shown in blue or art institutions shown in red. The links between a giver and a receiver corresponds to an explicit donation. The color and the thickness of each line captures the amount of money that the foundation donated to a specific art institution. The work unveils the complex ecosystem of funding that keeps the art space breathing. Viewers can approach the works with a hand-held UV lamp that will unveil the name of each institution, offering the chance to discover who funds whom.

Follow the Money, Visual Arts, captures the flow of money across all US institutions involved in visual arts.

Credits: A.-L. Barabási, L. Shekhtman, Y.Liu, S. Dikshit, A. Grischenko