AI values street art over Picasso, Trump's pool renovation, Vegas Sphere thrives

An AI model trained to value paintings has deemed a random street artist's work more valuable than a Picasso, as reported by ARTnews. Meanwhile, a Facebook group called Baddies in AI, where women use AI to augment or invent their social-media presence, has surpassed 300,000 members, according to The New Yorker. Trump's renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being handled by his personal pool contractor, who originally proposed a turquoise color to resemble the Bahamas, per Artnet. A former LiveNation executive is suing the company, alleging he was fired after flagging financial misconduct, as reported by the LA Times. The Vegas Sphere, predicted to fail three years ago, is now the highest-grossing arena globally, earning $379 million on 1.7 million tickets last year, according to the WSJ. Carolina Miranda critiques the new LACMA as prioritizing architectural drama over the art it houses, in Bloomberg. The Rocky statue has been moved inside the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which once tried to evict it, per CBS. Haruki Murakami has published his first novel narrated by a woman, as reported by LitHub.