Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
3B: Billionaires, blue books, and blacklists
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AI showed up everywhere today — and not as a feature. A Stanford senior describes a campus where ChatGPT has become the medium...
Peter Gelb No Longer Considering Retiring From The Met
“I should leave when I cannot do the job properly or when the board doesn’t want me to be here. I’m a workaholic, I’ve...
How AI Has Taken Over College Education
During the exam, students were pulling out phones and taking photographs of the test to submit to LLMs before copying down machine-written responses into...
France’s Top TV Production House Says It Will Blacklist Artists Who Protest Billionaire
The head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, has said the group will no longer work with hundreds of cinema figures who signed a...
How AI Has Taken Over My College Education At Stanford
Stanford has always been a haven for aspiring techies, but recent events have taken the school into uncharted territory. A.I. is everything. We talk...
How Do We Get Big Tech Interested In The Arts?
So what can motivate tech barons to give money to opera? How do we convince them that, with their help, they can be a...
The Artists Using San Francisco As A Canvas For Laser Shows
The San Francisco sky was lit Friday night with dozens of colored lasers beaming from the Transamerica Pyramid toward Coit Tower and One Sansome...
Humanities Make A Comeback As AI Gobbles Up Tech Jobs
As it turns out, tech jobs may be drying up after years of students rushing to computer science. Who needs to code? AI does...
And Now… The World’s First AI Museum
The “living museum” will present a continuously evolving immersive, audiovisual experience based on millions of images, sounds and scents from nature. As an indication...
The Gamification Of Homework
Prodigy is among a bevy of gamified tools that have gained a foothold in classrooms across the country by promising to make learning fun....
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...
