The Gray Market Weekend Wrap #25

From fathomless mirrored tunnels to an android endurance challenge

Welcome back to The Gray Market’s weekend wrap, where I cater a bespoke spread 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 50-year-old Minimalist path to the sublime just off Bryant Park

• Readers’ picks for the most unlikely professional resuscitations in the art world

• A trio of articles covering the climbing odds of an economic downturn, an AI startup with no qualms about cutting us all out of the workforce, and a specialty economy so preposterous that it makes the art trade look like essential commerce

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One question I’m wondering about

By the time next weekend’s newsletter hits your inboxes, New York’s spring art season will be bearing down on us like a pack of wild dogs. The pervading anxiety I’m getting from pros across the industry (including myself) forces me to ask: Which part(s) of the Empire City’s May calendar of fairs, auctions, and other events do you wish would be toned down or knocked out for good?

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.