Four Artists in the News: Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting ‘Completed’ With AI, Barbara Kruger and Judy Chicago Must-See Shows and the Artists Used to Train Generative AI (Allegedly)
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
