3 min read · 04 Jan 2024
BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU, I MEAN ME, I MEAN YOU Installation view, The Art Institute of Chicago - AIC, Chicago, 2021–22. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago
An exhibition celebrating Zaha Hadid’s legacy has been overshadowed by a row prompted by the Israel-Gaza conflict. The leadership of the Contemporary Arts Centre in Cincinnati, which the late architect designed, refused to endorse a public letter supporting Palestine co-signed by artists and curators of the show, the National reports.
The Serpentine Galleries’ Barbara Kruger and Judy Chicago solo shows make Time Out magazine’s shortlist of must-see shows in London in 2024, along with Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery.
Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting is a powerful social commentary on the Aids/HIV epidemic, which claimed the artist at just 31. Now, an artist has “completed” Haring’s work, using AI. Posting the result on social media prompted outrage, NBC News reports.
Works by Banksy, Yayoi Kusama and Damien Hirst are among the 16,000 artists that are being allegedly used to train the Midjourney’s generative AI program, a leaked court document revealed. Midjourney did not immediately respond to Hyperallergic’s request for comment.
And in other news
Françoise Bornet, who as a 20-year-old famously restaged a passionate kiss with her then boyfriend in a Paris street for the photographer Robert Doisneau, has died aged 93. The Guardian has the backstory to the iconic image.