Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What gets built in the gap
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The middle keeps cracking, and what's interesting is what people are building in the gap. Jeffrey Kahane left the foundering San Antonio Philharmonic...
The Americanization Of Tourism
We’re selling vibes, textures. A sunset on the hills in Chianti, riding a bike on an island in Sicily. Imagine us discussing it in...
Pompidou And Hong Kong’s M+ Strike A Five-Year Deal To Exchange Art
The major exhibition featuring collections from both institutions will be staged first in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, after its five-year renovation, around 2029...
Cannes Wrestles With AI
The 79th Cannes may go down as the time the world’s grandest film festival for the first time wrestled with the onset of AI...
Is Your Name Emily? Free Drinks For You!
Showcase Cinemas has just announced that if anyone called Emily buys a ticket to see the film Finding Emily this weekend, they will receive a...
Judge Delays Approval Of Anthropic Authors Settlement
Calling out lawyers for requesting more than $320 million in legal fees when each author only expects a $3,000 payout, some objectors asked the...
NPR Newsroom Reorganizes, Offers Buyouts
NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher says the network has to fill a gap of $8 million in its $300-million annual budget because of...
The Slop Before The AI Slop
In 1962, a programmer at Librascope, a California-based defense contractor, announced that “a computer can be programmed to write meaningful and relevant sentences in...
Will Paint For Food?
“If my art isn’t in your budget right now, I’ll accept the following as payment…” the viral posts on Instagram and TikTok read. The...
UK Music Venues Have Started Giving Their Touring Musicians Places To Stay
A growing number of UK music venues are attempting a simple but potentially transformative fix: giving bands somewhere to sleep. - The Guardian
Why Celebrities Are Trademarking Themselves
So why are celebrities suddenly registering trademarks in a bid to protect their identity? The answer, unsurprisingly, lies with generative artificial intelligence (AI). -...
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
