Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A system designed to overwhelm
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Three AI stories today, all pointing the same way. The Atlantic argues that the speed of the AI rollout is the strategy —...
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BALLET WEST
BALLET WEST, founded in 1963 by Willam Christensen, is one of America’s leading and largest ballet companies.
The Reinvention Of Washington National Opera
The opera, which announced it was severing its relations with the Kennedy Center as President Trump sought to put his imprint on the institution, said...
The AI Revolution Is Meant To Overwhelm You
I’ve written previously that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing their mind. But lately, I believe, it’s the...
A Rothko Sells For $86 Million
The seller of the 1957 work, “Brown and Blacks in Reds,” was the estate of former Goldman Sachs banker turned art dealer Robert Mnuchin,...
The Anti-AI Backlash Is Growing
Even absent any uptick in AI-induced layoffs, the anti-AI sentiment is likely to keep growing. - The Atlantic
Sorry, But Introspection Is Just An Illusion
There are no such stable beliefs and desires “inside” us that can be observed and reported. Instead, the human mind is a wonderfully fluent, but profoundly deceptive, improviser:...
What Kinds Of Non-Fiction Reporting Wins Pulitzers
If you do look closely at the history, biography, memoir, and general-nonfiction honors, a noticeable pattern emerges. The picks typically share a particular quality....
Would Paying Reviewers Help Fix The Peer Review Problem?
“The current system of unpaid reviews undermines the standards of the peer-review process. It produces late reviews and excludes large segments of the research...
GenZers Are Going To Movie Theatres: Here’s Why
People born between 1997 and 2012 are now more frequent cinemagoers than some older age groups, according to a US-based survey by Fandango, with 87%...
Study: Use Of AI Narrows Diversity Of Creativity
A recent preprint study provides evidence that while these tools might boost individual performance, they contribute to an overall reduction in the diversity of ideas across...
Knoxville Removes Alex Haley’s “Roots” From School Libraries
“Roots” is a multi-generational story following the descendants of a man sold into slavery in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize and...
What Pop Music Criticism Has Become
The “Greatest Living Songwriters” list was dumb clickbait which omitted an entire pantheon of irreplaceably brilliant songwriters. But the thing I most lament is...
The State Museum of Pennsylvania – Director
The State Museum of Pennsylvania (SMOP) seeks a strategic, collaborative leader to serve as its Director.
As a bureau of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum...
Ontario Starts Crackdown On Ticket Resellers
The Ontario government has begun cracking down on ticket scalpers and resale websites to make sure they're complying with new rules brought in last month that...
Neue Galerie To Merge With The Metropolitan Museum
Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of 20th-century Austrian and German...
Netflix Becomes An Ad Giant: 250M Subscribers
The streaming titan said Wednesday during its “upfront” presentation to advertisers that its ad-supported subscription tier reaches reaches more than 250 million global monthly...
Study: People Are Bad At Figuring Out What They Don’t Know (Yet They Think...
People aren’t just bad at remembering things they see all the time, but also in actually knowing how they work. In a 2006 study,...
How Your Brain Toggles Between The Familiar And Exploration
Research from my team suggests that people balance between exploration and habit – that is, trying something new or sticking with the familiar – when deciding...
Artists In The Age Of AI: Let’s Explore The Labor-Intensive Art Of The Renaissance
Artists have been raiding the toolkits of the Old Masters with new urgency of late, borrowing and reworking Renaissance and Baroque compositional drama, symbolism, and increasingly,...
NYU Students Protest Jonathan Haidt As Graduation Speaker
Student government leaders at New York University are objecting to his selection as the graduation speaker at Yankee Stadium — calling it “deeply unsettling”...
The Most-Performed Classical Music Concerts In Australia: Live Movie Music
According to the latest Live Performance Australia data, the most popular classical music performances in 2024 included Star Wars, How to Train Your Dragon, Pirates...
How The Smithsonian Decided To Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
“What we landed on were those moments where individuals or communities had fought for recognition and advocated for their own sense of identity and...
Reconciling The Values Of Silicon Valley
For decades, these ideologies were tolerated as part of a tacit social bargain: A group of intelligent eccentrics were left to their own devices...
Lead Event Technical Director
Lead Event Technical Director: oversee technical operations, crew leadership, safety compliance, and client coordination; requires rigging, carpentry, audio, lighting expertise in fast-paced performing arts venue.
