Season 1, Episode 5 · ON THE COUCH
David Salle - “Attention is a Fleeting Resource”
14 Jul 2026 · 34 min
Episode notes
David Salle is one of the leading postmodern painters of the last forty-five years, whose layered, colliding images will make you question everything you thought you knew about how images hold meaning. What most people don't expect: David has spent the last several years training artificial intelligence on his own body of work, then using what it generates as the raw material for new paintings — not to automate art, but to find a new language for it that you've never seen before. The results break every rule of anatomy, continuity, and logic, and they are unlike anything else being made…
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by John Chamberlain Estate · English · Arts & Books
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