Media Center

The Gallerist's Media Center: hire Assistants from your unemployment queue, and promote Artists with Influence for Fame and a bonus.

The Media Center gives you staff and makes Artists famous.

Hire Assistants

Your office has four desks. Hire as many Assistants as fit:

1. Move up to 4 Assistants from the top of your unemployment queue to empty desks.
2. Pay the cost printed beside each space. Influence can pay part of it.
3. Take the hiring bonuses printed beside those spaces.

You move them all, pay the total, then take all the bonuses. Hiring gets dearer as the queue shortens:

Assistant	Cost	Hiring bonus
1st	1	—
2nd	2	a brown ticket
3rd	2	a pink ticket
4th	3	2 Influence per VIP and 1 per Collector in your Gallery
5th	3	—
6th	4	a white ticket
7th	5	—
8th	6	2 money per Investor and 1 per Collector in your Gallery

Assistants work at Locations (left behind as you move), on contract cards, and in the International Market, where they stay for the rest of the game.

Promote Artist

The token at the top right of a discovered Artist shows their media Promotion level (most start at 0, shown as ”–”; some at 1, 2 or 3). Raise it by one:

1. Spend Influence equal to the new level.
2. Return the Artist’s current Promotion token, if any, to its space on the board.
3. Put the next-level token on the Artist. No token of that level left: you cannot promote.
4. Take the bonus printed above that level’s space on the board.
5. Raise the Artist’s Fame by 1, +1 per Collector in your Gallery. Influence can add more.

Level	Influence	Bonus
1	1	1 ticket of any colour
2	2	2 Influence per VIP and 1 per Collector in your Gallery
3	3	2 tickets of different colours
4	4	2 money per Investor and 1 per Collector in your Gallery
5	5	Move any Visitor from the Plaza to your Gallery

You need not own any of the Artist’s work, and a Celebrity can still be promoted (the Fame just stays at 19). An undiscovered Artist cannot be promoted.