The Gray Market Weekend Wrap #34

From workmanlike cyber-companionship to crisis-topped Italian pies

Welcome back to The Gray Market’s weekend wrap, where I put together a mind-expanding assembly of recommendations covering 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:

• An uncanny multimedia show about human-machine bonding

• A possible path forward for art blazed by chefs and restauranteurs

• A trio of articles covering the prospect of a Potemkin economic recovery, the twin crises in scientific research and cultural institutions, and a pair of precedent-setting rulings on art and AI

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One exhibition worth seeing

• Geumhyung Jeong, Toys, Selected, installation view, Canal Projects, 2025. Photo: Izzy Leung, courtesy of Canal Projects

Geumhyung Jeong: Toys, Selected

Through Saturday, November 22 at Canal Projects (351 Canal St, New York)