The Gray Market: Sunday Gray #48

From floral brain intrigue to Icelandic hoof messaging

Welcome back to The Gray Market’s weekend wrap, where, like a good (if eccentric) Midwestern neighbor, I swing by with a bushel full of homegrown recommendation spanning exhibitions, podcasts, articles and more, with thoughts on what makes each one matter to the current state of art and business.

In this weekend’s edition, you’ll find:

• A Lower East Side drawing show with a backdoor into the mysteries of neurology

• A reminder that once-culture-conquering art forms can become niche interests in the course of our lifetime

• A trio of articles covering the distressing state of the Hollywood economy, the transparency recession on Wall Street, and the new frontier of algorithmic IP piracy in Silicon Valley

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