Mundane practical matters such as whether the CEO will work onsite, have access to the company's IT network, be an insider for purposes of trading in the company's stock, and the decision - making authority he or she will hold onto can have important legal and practical effects.
The show's thematic weakness, though, stems from the fact that many reasons for the works being left unfinished are utterly
mundane, caused simply by
practical matters, such as a patron withholding payment to complete a commission or a portrait subject failing to show up for sittings, as in the case of an Alice Neel portrait on view.