The Gray Market Weekend Wrap #15

From art house AI cinema to industrial buzzsaw fitness

Welcome back to The Gray Market’s weekend wrap, where I offer up a taster’s choice of recommendations for 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 review of the best(?) publicly viewable generative-AI filmmaking

• A spirited debate about whether Frieze LA should actually be opening this week

• A trio of articles covering a wave of big-money layoffs, an uncanny turn in true-crime media, and a copyright milestone as revolutionary as it is exasperating

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One question I’m wondering about

ICYMI, an (American) football-field-sized asteroid has a roughly one-in-47 chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. If this monstrosity actually stays on track to hit us, which one artwork would you save from cosmic destruction—or, alternatively, move squarely into the blast radius—if you could get away with it clean?

Email your thoughts to tim@thegraymarket.xyz. I’ll include my favorite(s) in next weekend’s newsletter and comp the winner(s) a one-month subscription to TGM.