This Week’s Top Stories: David Salle Teaches AI to Paint, and Damien Hirst’s Secret Garden Paintings Revealed

Shows

Barkley L. Hendricks Impresses the Fashion Crowd at Frick Madison
The full-length portraits by the US artist now on show at Frick Madison in New York celebrate his subjects’ fashion sense and individual style, impressing leading designers today. (WWD)

Profiles

David Salle Teaches AI to Paint With Mixed Results
The veteran New York painter spent a year working with an AI creative program to see if he could teach it to create a "David Salle" work that would fool his gallerist. (The New York Times)

Market

Damien Hirst’s Secret Garden Revealed at Frieze
Gagosian will unveil Damien Hirst’s “The Secret Garden Paintings”, a new series, in a solo booth at Frieze London. (Gagosian)

Legal

Monets Worth $45 Million Lost in Mansion Fire
Three landscapes by Claude Monet, with an estimated value of $45m, were destroyed in a house fire in 2022 on the shores of Lake Michigan, according to court papers. The owners and insurers are now locked in a legal dispute. (Mlive)

Museum

Female Artists to the Fore at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s American Art Museum reopening exhibition “American Voices and Visions” features an unprecedented number of works by leading female artists and artists of colour with pieces by Jenny Holzer and Alison Saar impressing. (Smithsonian Magazine)