Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
YouTube Is Testing AI Hosts That Will Interrupt Music Streams
The streaming site says Labs will offer a glimpse of the AI features it's developing for YouTube Music, and it starts with AI "hosts"...
The Literary Biography Is Thriving
"As I enter my fifth decade in the genre, I’m happy to number the brilliant younger biographers whose careers I’m following in the dozens."...
Photographer Sally Mann: Behold a New Chapter In The Culture Wars
Mann, whose work is held at major art institutions around the world, is reeling after police seized four of her most celebrated — and...
NPR Sues Corporation For Public Broadcasting Over Satellite Grant
NPR had been told by CPB in early April that it would soon receive more than $30 million to cover the next three years...
Lebrecht Weighs In On Our Crisis Of Criticism
A conductor is fired only for sex, a reviewer not even for that. So when four chief critics are blown away in one afternoon,...
A Controversial Musical That Challenges Mexico’s Founding
The tensions and controversies over how Mexico, the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world today, should interpret both its Indigenous and Spanish past remain...
Financial Support For Museums Is Changing. Here’s How
In the late 20th century and into the early 2000s, museums relied on a value proposition of individual prestige: big collections, big buildings, big...
This Is Tilly. She’s An AI “Actress”. She’s Getting Work (And Representation)
“When we first launched Tilly, people were like, ‘What’s that?,’ and now we’re going to be announcing which agency is going to be representing...
Spotify’s Streaming AI Problem
The question remains: how effectively can Spotify identify artists who do not disclose their use of AI? As AI technology becomes more sophisticated, distinguishing...
Why Corporate Sponsorships Are Becoming Problematic For Museums
Bolstered by culture secretary Lisa Nandy’s blunt defense of business partnerships earlier this year, leaders at major institutions, including the V&A, British Museum, and the National...
A Bilingual “Romeo and Juliet” Hits London
A Welsh-English bilingual version of the tragedy, called Romeo a Juliet, is about to set off on tour, ending at Shakespeare’s Globe in London –...
Aspen Art Museum Takes A Turn To The Global
Twenty years after founding its gala, ArtCrush, in a town where an apartment can run north of $4 million, the museum is attempting a...
The Documentary Culture: The Impulse To Record Everything
Richer and deeper memories appear to enhance your individuality: a thin and shallow autobiographical narrative appears to lead to a less substantial self, whereas...
How Late Night TV Became So Political
To understand how network late-night hosts became such critics of Trump, you have to take the long view, because their increasingly political commentary preceded...
Research: AI Answers Change Depending On Culture
“Our findings suggest that the cultural tendencies embedded within AI models shape and filter the responses that AI provides. As generative AI becomes part...
Is Milan’s Art World Ready For A Breakthrough?
“We are now the gateway to the European Union,” local art advisor Mattia Pozzoni told me over spritzes at local culinary institution Sant Ambroeus....
After 26 Years, Lisa Philips To Retire As Director Of The New Museum
On Thursday, she announced plans to depart the New Museum in April, after the institution opens its 62,000-square-foot expansion that cost $82 million and...
E-Book Contracts To Libraries Are Expensive. Is This A Way To Fix The Problem?
The goal is to drive down demand for short-term e-book contracts and force publishers to offer e-books to libraries on better terms. - Harvard...
What Does It Mean To Put Your Community At The Heart Of Arts Institution...
New Art Exchange is one of just two cultural institutions in Britain – the other being Birmingham Museums Trust – that have put randomly...
New Test Of AI Ability Shows AI Beats Humans In A Variety Of Tasks
For GPT-5-high, a souped-up version of GPT-5 with extra computational power, the company says the AI model was ranked as better than or on...
Poll: More Americans Prefer To See New Movies By Streaming Than In Theatres
About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past...
How To Test Whether An Argument Is Valid
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion...
What Propelled The Rise Of Civilization? War
Ultrasociality was the secret of survival in this perpetual arms race, making it the ultimate military technology — or war the ultimate social technology....
The Movie Hospital — Where Damaged Movies Go To Be Reborn
Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in...
Making The Case For Fra Angelico
“Fra Angelico,” which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 25, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. Bringing together more than 140 works...
