Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Artists Using AI For Images Of A More Sustainable Climate
“Something different happens in the mind when you create something that defies even your own expectations or ideas. I don’t think anybody who plugs...
Not So Fast: A Last-Minute Buyer Makes An Offer For Paramount
The bid is the latest twist in a monthslong saga over control of Paramount, a once-mighty TV and film colossus. In July Skydance, the...
Barcelona Is Being Crushed By Overtourism
For anyone hoping to understand the complicated contours of overtourism in Barcelona, the Carmel Bunkers is a good place to start. - The New York...
French Actor Alain Delon, 88
Mr. Delon, who vaulted to fame with his performance as the murderous opportunist Tom Ripley in “Purple Noon” (1960), was sometimes called “the male...
The Accursed Culture Of Noise-Canceling Headphones
In the past several years, they have gone from a relatively niche productivity tool—an antidote to the distractions of the open office—to a near-universal...
Louis Menand: What Is A Book Store These Days?
Of course, selling books is as much a business as selling grill brushes. But the gross margins are small, and bookstore owners tend to...
Our Inexplicable Fascination With Hate-Watching
Why spend precious time, in an age of nearly infinite media, plopped in front of a bad show to pick it apart? It’s like...
Not Just The Seine: Cities Are Reclaiming Their Waterways For Swimming
After a century of ignoring the very arteries that allowed them to grow in the first place, cities are learning to love their rivers...
Has Technology Caused Us To Have The Same Musical Taste?
Oddly enough, we’re seeing an increasingly samey musical landscape, in which taste has become trapped in a feedback loop of the algorithm’s making. -...
Performance Art? Dying Woman Sells Off Pieces Of Her Remaining Time
Over the course of the day, about 30 people sat with Emily. Some used their three minutes for quiet reflection. Others wanted conversation, asking...
Southern California Artists Focus On Art And Science For PST
Originally called “Pacific Standard Time” and funded by the Getty, “PST Art,” on its third iteration, will explore connections between art and science. Artists...
Phil Donahue, 88
Across the years — he moved from Dayton to Chicago in 1974, and then to New York in 1985 — he interviewed presidential candidates...
Godfather Of French Contemporary Dance Retires
Jean-Paul Montanari’s career has been entwined with the explosion of contemporary dance into a major art form in France. - The New York Times
Educators Still Don’t Know How To Deal With AI And Students
Generative AI has “pretty much ruined the integrity of online classes,” which are increasingly common as schools such as ASU attempt to scale up...
People Are Speeding Up Playback Of Songs. But The Music Sounds Different From How...
Sped-up listening emerged in the early 2000s as “nightcore”. This is now commonplace on our social media apps, where the speed of podcasts, voice...
Can Music Festivals Help Revive San Francisco?
“Ninety percent of the audience is coming from outside San Francisco. And most of these people are not just coming in for the show,...
Woman Arrested For Trying To Fraudulently Sell Graceland
Federal authorities on Friday arrested and charged a Missouri woman in connection with the scheme to fraudulently auction Elvis Presley’s historic Graceland mansion. -...
AI Has Come For Translators
Unsurprisingly, the arrival of fully fledged generative AI has done nothing to improve the situation for commercial translators. But there’s no impact on literary...
Why So Much Renaissance Art Turned Up In American Museums
Rather than collecting domestic works, people of means wanted art with a richer historical past. They were seduced by the appeal of Europe’s long...
Why AI Art Looks So Much “Of A Type”
“We see a lot of fantasy-style art and stock photography, which then trickles into the models themselves,” Zivvy Epstein, a scientist at the Stanford...
The Not Insignificant Costs Of “Hosting” A Banksy
Two disgruntled landlords spoke out in 2021 when Banksy sprayed a large herring gull on to the side of a Suffolk house they let...
The Glacial Pace Of Book Publishing Is Killing It
The dilatoriness that used to be such a feature of the literary world in the days when it relied on the postal service and...
Trend: Couples Are Asking For “Bridgerton” Music For Their Weddings
Some couples ask for music straight from the show, including the Keys song, said Émme, while others look for something more bespoke; one recent...
How Technology Disrupted Our Sense Of Our Bodies
The cyber-utopians of yore were hopelessly naïve. Lockdown showed us why. More screentime means more misery. Thus any future for humanity should ideally rest...
Book On AI Mistakenly Flagged By Publisher’s Filters As AI
Ingram's filters had mistakenly identified the book as having been generated using AI—a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in. - Publishers...
