Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
It’s Expensive To Enter Australia’s Art Prize Competitions. But Hard To Give Them Up
In today’s landscape, prizes are no longer a nice little extra, or a back pat that arrives at the end of a long and...
Do We Have A Facts Problem Or An Interpretation-Of-Facts Problem?
Citizens can agree on verifiable facts and still inhabit different worlds, because facts do not interpret themselves. To see why, we need to look...
DePaul Museum Just Closed. But Its Collection Will Stay On Campus
The DePaul Art Museum announcement came two months after the university laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators referenced financial troubles due to a...
Stratford Festival Artistic Director Retires After 40 Years
Antoni Cimolino, whose gentle stewardship of this juggernaut of a theater, especially during that existential COVID crisis, was as sure as it was self-effacing,...
Arena-Sized Aida Canceled
Said a spokesperson for TEG (Ticketek Entertainment Group): “Unfortunately, the ongoing conflict and instability in the Middle East has resulted in massive increases in...
The Think Tank Leading Trump’s War On Education
The think tank has crafted model legislation to remake colleges and universities as race-blind institutions, fueled the campaign to oust Claudine Gay as president...
LA’s Dance Scene Is Contracting. Now It’s Just Survival
“A lot of the challenges that are happening right now are of the times. They’re reflecting what’s going on in our country, and I...
A Hacker Used Claude To Score Free Tickets To Every Free Music Festival
Security researcher Ian Carroll used the AI tool Claude Opus 4.7 in April to discover a technique that allowed him full access to the...
New Seizures Of Looted Met Museum Art: Total Now $95M
Investigators since 2017 have seized more than 120 artifacts from the Met ranging in value from $20,000 to $26 million, plus hundreds of smaller...
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks Chief Growth & Impact Officer
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks Chief Growth & Impact Officer. Annual salary is in the range of $140,000 to $150,000.
When background music doesn’t help
Good Morning:
New York's Little Island has cut its performance schedule in half (The New York Times), and Nicholas Hytner's Bridge Theatre has been swallowed...
General Custer And The Changing Cultural Record
Artists and writers have interpreted and reinterpreted George Armstrong Custer, who died in a storied battle that just had a major anniversary. - The...
What I Learned About Myself Through Translating
“Translators like to say, we discover our authors,” writes translator and novelist Anton Hur. “But maybe we’re wrong. Maybe the books choose us.” -...
Why It’s So Difficult To Calculate Benefits And Costs Of Technology Innovation
When a tool reliably performs a cognitive operation, the internal capacity for that operation tends to weaken with disuse. People who know they can...
What American Classical Music Needs
Classical music in the United States is borrowed from Europe, and that borrowing was initially ambitious and impressive. An apex was attained around 1900. -...
Alex Ross Is Leaving The New Yorker
My latest column, about the Ojai Music Festival, is my last. Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever — contemporary composition is eternally vital — I...
Why Leisure Is A Tough Gig
Give people an hour with nothing scheduled, and many fill it with thoughts of to-dos: the unanswered email, the errand that’s been put off,...
Does Listening To Music While You Work Help You Focus?
Researchers generally agree that the relationship between music and learning is complex. The effects of music on studying and other cognitively demanding tasks appear...
Mounting Scientific Evidence That Reading On Screens Results In Lower Comprehension
Reading comprehension was significantly lower when the students read on screens. The researchers also found that the number of “transitions,” where students would go...
Australia’s Theatre Sector Raises Alarm
Australia’s theatre industry is in desperate need of tax reform to keep it alive, experts have warned the federal government, after two major touring...
AJ Chronicles: It’s Getting Expensive to Prove You’re a Human Artist
We're now focused on "doping tests" to determine if artists have cheated. Rather than pee in a bottle, however, we're depending on AI detector tools and documentary proof of human creation. Did the Foundation double down to ask what's the best writing? No. They cared more about how it was made. Perhaps that's important. Of course it is. But, in a way, it's now an impossible question. Moreover, it may ultimately be the wrong question.
University Musical Society seeks Vice President and Chief Development Officer.
The next VP and CDO will be a key institutional leader and strategic partner to the UMS President, responsible for leading a comprehensive fundraising program.
Critics Might Have Hated The Michael Jackson Movie, But It’s Now The Highest-Grossing Biopic...
The recently released Michael Jackson movie has overtaken Oppenheimer as the highest-grossing biopic of all time, after taking $977m (£739m) at the worldwide box...
The AI Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over The Internet
As Claude Design catches on among Anthropic users, a generic-design aesthetic is emerging that’s as noticeable as text-based A.I. tics such as overenthusiastic em-dash...
Why You Need To Be A Better Reader
Navigating today’s digital information landscape requires strong critical evaluation skills. Reading plays a central role in this process by serving not only as a means...
