Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Los Angeles, City Of Opera
The expected grandeur, the time and space business, the big emotions, big ideas and big voices, we’ve got it all. That's to be expected....
AI’s Art Style Problem
This seems like the reality that these A.I. tools will force us to reckon with: They promise to do for style what the internet did for content, dramatically...
Neuroscience Study: Negative Artist Bio Information Influences Perception Of Their Art
Researchers found that after learning negative information about the artists, participants rated the paintings less favorably. Specifically, paintings by artists associated with negative biographical...
Is AI Leading Us To Rethink Art?
So why are artists dabbling with A.I.? And do they risk being extinguished by it? - The New York Times
Florida Grand Opera Appoints A New Director
Maria Todaro, an accomplished singer, stage director, fight choreographer and arts entrepreneur is stepping into her biggest role yet, ushering in an ambitious rebrand...
San Francisco Opera, On A Financial Cliff, Looks To Asia
As the West’s oldest still-operational opera company faces a steep financial cliff, there’s another aria being sung across the Pacific Ocean—one SF Opera stands...
Archaeologists Discover Stunning Blue Room In Pompeii
The stunning blue-ground walls are decorated with female figures representing the four seasons and allegorical representations of agriculture and pastoralism, according to experts. -...
Book Publishing Is A Collaborative Art. Time To Acknowledge Everyone Who Works On It
Unseen and unacknowledged labor is as central to book publishing as Republican politicians being overpaid to write books that no one except their own...
Hot In London: Immersive Theatre With A Meal
Striving for a high-level experience also means embedding accuracy into the menu itself. For The Great Murder Mystery, the team at the Lost Estate...
Finally Fed Up With Instagram, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Artists Leave For Startup Rival
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000...
How AI Is Leveling The Field For Small Organizations
By using it to provide ideas, options, and solutions beyond the capabilities of a small and, perhaps limited, management team, smaller companies can overcome...
Canada Needs To Rethink Humanities Education
While students continue to seek and enjoy advanced study of the social sciences and humanities, the question of “What can you do with that?”...
Roy Lichtenstein At 100
Roy Lichtenstein, a luminary of the Pop Art movement alongside Andy Warhol, would have celebrated his hundredth birthday last October. His legacy reverberates through the...
Sales Of Audiobooks Are Solidly Growing
Robert Thompson, CEO of HarperCollins parent company News Corp, has repeatedly called Spotify a game changer for the audiobook market; the 14% rise in audiobook sales at...
New Zealand’s Creative Sector Is Becoming Financially Unviable
A Creative New Zealand report in 2023 revealed creatives earn considerably less than other wage earners: $37,000 a year compared to a general median of $61,800. This...
Costco To Stop Selling Books
Beginning in January 2025, the company will stop stocking books regularly, and will instead sell them only during the holiday shopping period, from September...
Prominent Publisher Lays Off Seven
The layoffs, which the company described as part of a corporate restructuring, come as major publishing companies have been buffeted by sluggish print sales...
Two Seattle Companies Say They Will Merge
Seattle’s ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company — two of the city’s most enduring theater companies — may soon become one entity, the...
Is AI A Threat To Our Egos And Sense Of Self Worth?
As artificial intelligence systems outpace human performance on an increasing array of cognitive tasks, they risk undermining the intellectual supremacy upon which we have long staked...
Is Technological Change Outrunning Our Ability To Evolve?
The modern world is replete with things that make our once-adaptive instincts go awry. - Phys.org
Adobe Called Out For Selling Ansel Adams-Style AI Work
“We don’t have a problem with anyone taking inspiration from Ansel’s photography,” said the Adams estate. “But we strenuously object to the unauthorized use of...
Symphony For 1000 Smartphones
“Even in a Mahler symphony, the largest number of performers you could have is 120,” says the Chinese-American composer from his New York apartment....
“Fake” Dega Bought For $1000 Online Turns Out To Be Real
The work was last seen in public in 1952 when Joan Llonch Salas leant it to a group exhibition at the Barcelona gallery Gaspar,...
The Arts Are Being Strangled By Increased Costs
Last year, data released by audience research company Patternmakers showed somewhat of a rebounding of audience numbers from COVID levels, which was promising. But it also...
Are Big Concert Ticket Sales Finally Softening?
Now with the streaming era and things like that, that it's really shifted, where instead of selling the tour to get people to buy...
