Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Golden Globes Are Back (And Still Problematic)
So, yes, for all intents and purposes, the Golden Globes are back. But regarding ethical practices, today’s for-profit Globes may well be worse than...
Producer: AI Is Inevitable In Music. Time To Have A Strategy
“Everybody should be selling or licensing their voice and their skills to these companies,” Stewart said. “Otherwise they’re just going to take it anyway.”...
Louvre Leak Causes Water Damage To Art Work
“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as...
Solving An 800-Picture Art Heist In Slow Motion
Some 800 paintings have been taken from the collection since 1945, in one of the most devastating spates of art theft in Germany’s postwar...
Struggling To Define Intelligence: What Does It Take?
We are running out of intelligence tests that humans can pass reliably and AI models cannot. By those benchmarks, and if we accept that intelligence is...
Spotify Wrapped Is Everything That’s Wrong About Our Outsourced Musical Taste
It nudges listeners away from deep consideration and towards accepting a corporate-branded scorecard reflecting a very specific perspective on musical value. It encourages music...
Architecture Is Shifting From The “Lone Genius” Model To Collective Activism
Architects are expanding their boundaries into other fields such as gastronomy, music, design, and the corporate world, applying spatial thinking to address challenges of...
Inside The Enormous New Grand Egyptian Museum
Located on a desert plateau formed by the Nile thousands of years ago, the Museum's geological setting was integral to the design. Beginning at a focal...
Why Small Publishers Are In Crisis
There’s a sense that big publishing has stopped investing in people, authors, and good writing, and is just producing huge amounts of product, which...
Trump’s FTC Might Block The Netflix/Warner Deal. That Wouldn’t Be A Bad Thing
From a competition standpoint, Warner Bros. going to Netflix is sharp a step in the wrong direction. It’s turbocharging the runaway market leader, leaving...
How An Ex-Actress Created Tilly, The AI Actress
Eline Van der Velden toiled with her 15-person team to nail down the look of her leading lady, creating 2,000 iterations of an actress...
How Netflix Swallowed Hollywood
Piece by piece, Netflix has disrupted a more-than-century-old industry, from the way consumers rent movies and TV shows, to the cadence at which new...
Another Big Departure At The George Lucas Museum
“There are no immediate plans to replace Pilar’s role as Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collections,” wrote interim Chief Executive Jim...
Behold The “Performative Reader”
Performative reading has firmly implanted itself into the popular imagination, becoming a meme for a generation of people who, by all accounts, aren’t reading...
The AI that has Colonized our Creativity
Everyone's talking about AI, and you're being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that...
Our Changing Notions Of The Purpose Of Monuments
Rather than construct an imagined past as a universal tradition, as with conventional monuments... contemporary artists understand ambivalence and impermanence as key conditions of...
Architect Frank Gehry, 96
Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as an aimless teenager just after World War II and went on to become the most famous and one...
The Notion Of Decline Of Our Education System Is A Long-Running Trope
The suspicion that Americans are becoming more illiterate has long been irresistible to the educated class. In the present day, this happens to be...
Norman Foster’s New JP Morgan Tower In Manhattan: An Obscene Essay In Steel
The sheer amount of structural steel – 95,000 tonnes in total – is obscene for a building that contains just 60 storeys in its...
This Year’s Best New Architecture
Editors of Dezeen pick their favorites, including new cultural institutions, homes, hotels, skyscrapers and even an architecture school. - Dezeen
Fascinating: Research Find That Fantastical Programming Impairs Cognitive Attention In Children
The researchers found a significant negative effect for fantastical content. Children who watched programs featuring impossible events tended to perform worse on attention and...
Report: Trump’s Kennedy Center Is Stiffing Artists On The Fees
Representatives for three performers tell THR they’re still waiting on checks months after their shows. - The Hollywood Reporter
Why Trump Fired His Ballroom Architect. And Here’s His Replacement
Trump and McCrery had clashed over the president’s desire to keep increasing the size of the building, but it was McCrery’s firm’s small workforce...
How AI Is Changing How Architecture Is Conceived
Across design firms, respondents emphasized two immediate gains: speed and the ability to generate options. - ArchDaily
Why Does AI Write Like That? And Why Are People Willing To Read It?
If you’re anything like me, you did not enjoy reading that paragraph. Everything about it puts me on alert: Something is wrong here; this...
