We can not reasonably ask all artists to donate their prize money or exhibition budgets toward charitable causes. (artnews.com)
Please note that specific queries about the art space including exhibitions budget can not be answered. (ludlow38.org)
As a corrective to this potential distortion, W.A.G.E. considered tying the fee to total annual exhibition expense instead but soon recognized that if an exhibition involved the production of a capital - intensive project, its budget would be higher and in turn so would the fee, thus creating an incentive for artists and commercial galleries to inflate exhibition budgets and be rewarded for the production of capital - intensive work that may command higher prices in the speculative market. (wageforwork.com)