Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The AI Voice Is Taking Over
It’s not just that we’re adopting AI language — it’s about how we’re starting to sound. Even though current studies mostly focus on vocabulary,...
Writers Pull Out Of Australian Festival, Charging That Speakers’ Code Is Censorship
“The actual wording of requires me to engage in complete self-censorship, so, such as a profound act of gaslighting." - The Guardian
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Company Rebrands
The company will develop brand and franchise strategies for titles including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express....
A Peek Inside A Pianist’s Brain As He’s Playing Bach
Nicolas Namoradze’s Neurorecital saw pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier accompanied by images of the performer’s brain activity, allowing an unprecedented peek into the mind...
Mindfulness Is Spreading In US Schools. Is It Helping?
Researchers estimate that over 1 million children in the U.S. have been exposed to mindfulness in their schools, mostly at the elementary level, often taught...
The AI Revolution In Education Is Just Getting Started
The AI takeover of the classroom is just getting started. Plenty of educators are using AI in their own job, even if they may...
How To Save Scientific Research: Throw Humanities Under The Bus?
We in the hard sciences do work that is largely apolitical, and we are more oriented toward much-needed objective evaluation of data and merit....
Historians Raise Alarm About White House Review Of Smithsonian Histories
The White House’s announced review is a challenge to the Smithsonian, which has traditionally operated as an independent institution and regards itself as being...
Micro-Dramas Powered By AI: The Next Big Thing?
Television animation costs $15,000 to $60,000 per minute if done traditionally. Intelligent Animation, another start-up backed by Banyan Ventures, has developed an A.I.-assisted process...
More And More Of Our Lives Are Being Controlled By Numbers
You might think of Google as a search company, but 80 percent of its quarter-trillion-dollar annual revenue comes from ads—both hosting them and placing...
Trump Announces This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees, Says He Will Host Show
By making the announcement of honorees himself, Trump is taking on the role of producer/showman, elevating the attention to the show, which has aired...
Time To Move On From Dr. Seuss?
Seuss dominates so much of our imaginations around childhood. It may take another generation or two to reset our perspective so that Seuss isn’t...
Trump Versus Higher Ed: Will Academia Survive The Intrusion?
Scholars who feared speech might make them vulnerable to deportation, the government advised, reflect grandiosity and paranoia. Professors are smart, but they do not...
What Witch Hunts In The 15th Century Have In Common With Today’s Misinformation Wars
Early modern skeptics understood something we’re still grappling with today: Certain people are more vulnerable to believing extraordinary claims. They identified “melancholics,” people predisposed to anxiety and fantastical...
Teaching Creativity In Research
“The most striking result is the disparity between how important creativity is for science versus how much opportunity and value is given to it...
Trump Surprises Kennedy Center Employees By Posting The KC Honoree List Would Be Announced...
Trump posted the announcement Tuesday morning. It said in part: "GREAT Nominees for the TRUMP/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I mean, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS," which alludes...
Richard Longo On Being An American Artist
He became so ubiquitous that, as he put it in Interview magazine last year, “I was one of the artists that was blamed for the...
AI In Education: We’re Skeptical
Every time we layer another technology on, it gets harder and harder for the student to understand what they are responsible for and what...
When Baryshnikov Found Balanchine
But perhaps the most important thing these two artists had in common was the fact that they each left the Soviet Union in search...
Boston Public Library To Enhance Access To Its Archives Using AI
Currently, members of the public who want to access these documents must show up in person. The project will enhance the metadata of each...
Why Are So Many New York Galleries Closing?
“It’s a mystery how things can be this difficult for an industry that works on such large margins—up to 50 percent for most galleries,...
Can’t Get Enough? Portland OR Plans Two Large Venues For Broadway Musicals
The evolving plan to build two Portland-owned performing arts centers capable of staging touring Broadway shows has cleared two early hurdles. - Oregon Arts...
Arts Patron Christophe de Menil, 92
For two decades, Ms. de Menil was a costume designer for the avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson, who died on July 31. An art collector herself,...
Wikipedia Loses Challenge To New Online Age Verification Law
Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its...
The Bubble Art Taking The Edinburgh Fringe By Storm
Performers are delighting crowds with bubble blowing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, using a mixture of dish soap, water and lube — and occasional...
