The mega-gallery model hit turbulence as Pace Gallery announced it will cut staff from 250 to 200 and drop up to 50 of its 135 artists, a clear sign large dealers are wrestling with profitability (Pace downsizing). [P]Meanwhile, Leonardo scholarship got a glow-up: Florence’s Galileo Museum and Leonardotheka digitally reunited the Codex Atlanticus with 550+ pages long separated, giving the public the largest online view of da Vinci’s notes (Codex reunited). And in Barcelona, 144 years of scaffolding finally bowed out as the Sagrada Família completed its Tower of Jesus Christ — a symbolic endnote that will be inaugurated on Gaudí’s centenary (tower finished).

John Lithgow made history at 80 as the oldest man to win a competitive Tony in an acting category for Giant, a reminder that craft ages like fine film stock (Lithgow Tony). [P]On the commercial side, the latest Scary Movie opened to $55M and pushed the franchise past the $1 billion mark, proving horror comedy still packs theaters (box office). And behind the scenes, a new report flags that AI tools are reproducing the art world’s existing gender inequities, a wake-up call for institutions deploying tech in curation and creation (AI bias).