User:Theredproject/Predatory Exhibitions and Vanity Galleries

The arts has a persistent problem of pay-to-play galleries and exhibitions that charge a very large fee to exhibit their works. Often called vanity galleries, they exploit naive or vulnerable artists. While not as persistent a problem as Predatory open access publishing is for scholarly research, it is still a problem. It becomes an especially tricky problem here on Wikipedia, where some artist pages use pay-to-play exhibitions like the Florence Biennale to establish notability, which they should not. Below is an initial informal attempt to coalesce my research into these galleries and exhibitions into one place, for use in the AfD process.