Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
So An AI Has Just Declared A Painting By A Street Artist More Valuable...
What’s worth more—a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the...
How Short-Form Video Clips Took Over The Internet
Once you start looking, you realize that short video clips—not tweets, or posts, or static photos—have become the atomic unit of online content. Short-form...
Martha Graham’s Revolution Continues
Graham saw herself primarily as a dancer—she made dances, she said, so that she would have something to dance. It could be said that...
The New LACMA: Architectural Drama At The Expense Of Art
Carolina Miranda: "In some ways, this freeway-like building could not be more LA: messy, sprawling, too big to take in from a single vantage...
AI Can Make Anyone An “Influencer”
Across social media, an influx of A.I.-generated avatars is reshaping what it means to be an influencer. A Facebook group called Baddies in AI,...
Who Does Trump Want To Hire To Redo The National Mall Reflecting Pool? His...
Trump originally envisioned the pool being topped with turquoise so that it would look like the Bahamas, but was convinced by the contractor to...
Former LiveNation Exec Says He Was Fired After Raising Concerns Over Business Practices
In his new position, Rumanes said, he raised “serious and legitimate alarm” over the company’s business practices. As a result, he says, he was...
What Did It Take To Put Together The Met’s Epic Raphael Show?
The largest survey dedicated to the Renaissance master in the U.S. includes 33 of his paintings and 142 works on paper. About 60 public...
The Vegas Sphere Could Have Been An Epic Disaster. Instead It Sells More Tickets...
The venue that created a new type of live entertainment has become the highest-grossing arena in the world, with $379 million on 1.7 million...
Opera contra opera
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Two opera pieces landed on ArtsJournal today, pointed in opposite directions. In Opera America, an argument that the form will die unless it...
AJ Chronicles: Perils of Philanthropy — The Metropolitan Opera
We collected 118 stories on ArtsJournal this week. Here’s what I learned. The detail that stuck out in the Metropolitan Opera’s announcement last fall that it had made a $200 million deal with the Saudi government to take the company to perform in the Kingdom for three weeks every winter
LACMA’s New Building: What’s the purpose of art in a Museum?
LACMA proposes a new model for museums. For a long time now, context has been an essential deliverable when you go to a museum. It’s how meaning gets constructed. Just what was so remarkable about the way Constable painted light, and how did it have an effect on the painters
I Am Anti-AI. How Do We Get It Out Of Schools?
At times, I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives...
The Ideas Challenging This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
This year’s prize arrives at a moment when sculpture, funding structures and art education are becoming unusually entangled. - The Conversation
Blame It On The Culture
Someone observes a behavioral difference between groups or countries. They can’t immediately identify the mechanism. So, they invoke “culture” as an explanation or, even...
After Implosion Of The Adelaide Book Festival, A New Director
Both Newcastle and Adelaide made the decision to invite Abdel-Fattah but only one imploded over it. So what went differently for Rosemarie Milsom? -...
Does Reading Help?
Books do not create a higher form of conversation but instead allow for a unique ‘fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of...
Cutting The Baby In Half? Venice Biennale Jury Says It Won’t Consider Russia Or...
The Venice Biennale‘s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International...
Remembering MTT
Thomas was also an example of an artistic leader serving as a guiding star for an entire geographic area - emphasizing the importance of audiences...
The Complicated Calculations Behind FOMO
By recognising the social orientation of the experience, we can take a step towards understanding the nature of FOMO and what it can do...
How Long Should Movies Have To Wait In Theatres Before They Go To Streaming?
Maybe the middle ground was 45 days. Because at CinemaCon 2026, every single studio, not just Universal, reiterated its commitment to windows of at least that...
Send In The Pool Guy: Trump Wants To Replace The Capitol Mall Reflecting Pool
He complained that the 2,030-foor by 167-foot pool, which was built in 1922 between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, “never looked great” because...
Director of People & Culture – Oregon Shakespeare Festival via TOC Arts Partners
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, OR seeks a Director of People & Culture to join the team.
A Backlash To Biennales?
But with the boom came backlash: the suspicion that biennales were above all an excuse for a tote-bag-wearing international art crowd to descend on...
Warner Shareholders Approve Sale To Paramount
Shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery voted to sell the company to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance for $31 a share in cash at a special virtual meeting Wednesday morning. The...
