The Gray Market Weekend Wrap #35

From baroque dockland tragedies to chemically berserk snacking

Welcome back to The Gray Market’s weekend wrap, where I guide you on a safari 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:

• A site-responsive show that collides the West Village’s quasi-suburban present with its sordid past

• An insight into how to navigate the polycrisis of 2025 from a risk and probability genius

• A trio of articles covering the rise of the machines in global commerce, fast fashion’s flirtation with AI-generated clones, and the artist single-handedly sinking summer tourism in their home country

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One exhibition worth seeing

• Lee Brozgol, FUCK ANY HOT ASS TODAY (1980), installed at the old Keller Hotel. Photography by Francis Louvis, courtesy of New Canons, Foreign & Domestic, and the Estate of Lee Brozgol

Lee Brozgol 1977-1981

Through Sunday, July 13 at the former Keller Hotel (150 Barrow St, New York)