Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
As AI Fashion Models Cause A Sensation, It’s Time To Ponder Digital Twins
As digital replicas of real people become more common, especially in image-based industries like fashion, urgent ethical questions are emerging. These include conversations about the future...
The Iowa Town Where Every Other Person Seems To Be A Writer
Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth. The home of arguably the world’s most famous...
Metaphors Are Brilliant At Helping Us Understand Ideas. They Can Also Narrow Our Thinking
One risk is that they close down possibilities. They can shut down our thinking, coercing it to fit the shape of someone else’s comparison...
One Gallery’s Artists Are Dominating New York’s Museum Calendar This Spring
The gallery’s artists are so dominant in New York’s leading museums this season that some in the art world are calling it “Hauser spring.”...
New Oscars Rule For Voters: You Actually Have To Watch All The Movies In...
According to the Academy, they will be tracking what voters watch in the digital screening room, and then there will be a form to...
Arts And The Trump Culture Wars
Because of the speed of the administration’s actions, arts and culture groups are scrambling to reassess the scope of their projects and find alternative...
The Boston Pops Phenomenon
He came to the job young, quickly became a local celebrity, and is presiding at a time when it has proved impossible for the Pops to...
If AI Can Think, Should It Deserve Rights?
Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give...
A Color No One Has Ever Seen Before
The color “olo” can’t be found on a Pantone color chart. It can be experienced only in a cramped 9-by-13 room in Northern California....
The Odd Case Of A Celebrity Journalist Who Gets Impossible Interviews
The author was a little-known English freelance journalist. The story of how he came to land his Johnny Depp story – along with a...
President and CEO
The next President and CEO of Orchestra Lumos will be an innovative leader with a passion for leading an orchestra that delivers high-quality concert experiences.
Managing Director, Long Wharf Theatre
Co-Executive with the Artistic Director, reporting jointly to the Board of Directors
Classification: This is a full-time, exempt positionCompensation: $150,000 annual plus benefitsLocation: Greater New...
Jennifer Higdon On Writing Music
"I don't judge people in any way about how much they know about music. In fact, when I'm writing, I think, "Well, let's pretend...
Amazon Stomps On National Independent Bookstore Day With Big Online Sale
Independent bookstores and users on BookTok are expressing their frustration with Amazon while encouraging readers to stay off of the online shopping site and instead make...
What Should Be The Story Of American Culture The Kennedy Center Tells?
The Kennedy Center is more than a venue, it’s a “living monument” — a place where the story of American culture plays out onstage....
Study: Music Producers Report Widespread Use Of AI In Their Work
The consensus is that AI is an extremely potent technology and already very, very good at creating content, however, you are somehow a villain...
Trump Administration Threatens Wikipedia’s Non-Profit Status
“Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders,...
Netflix CEO: Movie Theatres Are Outdated
What is the consumer trying to tell us? That they’d like to watch movies at home, thank you. The studios and the theaters are duking...
Smithsonian Is Removing Artifacts From The African American Museum
It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums. - DCNewsNow
Remembering Maio Vargas Llosa
Vargas Llosa “has replaced Gabriel García Márquez” as the South American novelist North American readers must catch up on, Updike wrote in 1986, four...
How AI Has Changed The Ways I Explore The World
I can hold a tailored conversation on any of the topics I care about with a system that has effectively achieved Ph.D.-level competence across...
Government Funding Is Not Public Media’s Most Pressing Problem
"Too many stations simply serve as passthrough distributors for national content. That model was the only way to distribute content in the 1970s. Today,...
When The Machines Think Of Things We Never Would Have
For better and for worse, science today is shaped by strongly human factors: economic value, political priorities, career prospects, cultural trends, and a range...
AI CEO: We Will Track Everything You Do
“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app...
We Used To Think Of Nostalgia As Some Sort Of Disease…
It is not only that those wistful and innocent longings we all feel when we think of home were once subject to urgent medical...
