The Gray Market Weekend Wrap #36

From enigmatic sci-fi monuments to papal anime relics

Welcome back to The Gray Market’s weekend wrap, where I assemble a one-of-a-kind sampler 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 mischievous, slyly revelatory installation on the Upper East Side

• A keen insight into the unique profile of post-pandemic visual art

• A trio of articles covering a paradigm-shifting spike in New York art-school applications, a poaching trend that makes the gallery sector’s equivalent seem quaint, and the advent of corporate chatbot insurance

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One exhibition worth seeing

• Installation view of Lutz Bacher’s Into the Dimensional Corridor (2014). Photo: TGM

Lutz Bacher: Into the Dimensional Corridor

Through Friday, July 25 at Galerie Buchholz (17 East 82nd Street, New York)