Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Toymakers Design Human Characteristics Into Their Work. And AI?
Large language models can seem to do more than what we ask them to; they exhibit something that we might call creativity if a...
London’s Wigmore Hall Announces Endowment Campaign To Eliminate Its Public Funding
The venue has an annual grant of £344,206 from Arts Council England (ACE) but John Gilhooly, Wigmore Hall’s artistic and executive director, says that...
“Mama Mia” Star Informed She’s Being Replaced By AI Voice
Musical theater star Sara Poyzer publicly shared a screenshot of an email she received from an unnamed production company which read: “Sorry for the delay—we have...
US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as...
Is It True That Quality TV Is Done For?
"There's definitely been a contraction after years of it feeling like TV was undergoing this crazy expansion." - BBC
How The Head Of Juilliard’s Dance Program Is Shaking Things Up
In 2018, she became the prestigious New York conservatory's first woman of color to head the dance program — and the youngest person to...
How Two Amsterdam Museums Managed Hyper-Demand For Blockbuster Shows
“I thought we would sell out and would probably have about half a million visitors. In the end we had 650,000, but we could...
Inside San Francisco Symphony’s Budget Issues And What They Say About Priorities
Given these “significant financial pressures,” where does the multimillion-dollar Davies renovation project stand, certain to pose challenges even if the cost of application and...
How Steppenwolf Theatre Reimagined Its Educational Mission
It seemed that the education department functioned as a sort of nonprofit running within another nonprofit, having separate conversations about programming. - American Theatre
For The Second Time Since 1987, Vinyl Records Outsold CDs Last Year
People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s 6 million more than the number of CDs...
There Are Lots Of Music Subscription Experiments Going On. How About This One?
The term “blockchain” has dropped out of the public consciousness since the calming of the NFT frenzy of the early 2020s. But the technology...
Can This Record Producer’s Book Really Turn You Into An Artist?
The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as...
AI Translators And The End Of Language Instruction
Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern...
Richard Serra, 85
Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmarks like Stonehenge. - The New...
Examining Shakespeare’s Words
To praise Shakespeare is also to praise his audience. Not just the one that filled the Globe during his lifetime, but the subsequent generations, too,...
Sundance Loses Its Leader After Only Two Years
Joana Vicente came to Sundance from the Toronto International Film Festival and arrived as COVID had pushed the festival online for 2021 and again...
How Censorship Changed Opera
How did the opera get past censorship, when it utilized the same script of Hugo’s banned play? Well, this was thanks to the genius...
The Trolls Unleashed By Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Nowadays when we speak of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, we mostly refer to its more reputable side. But similar to the proliferation of...
Large Warhol Silk Screen Painting Missing From College
The print was inspired by U.S. President Nixon’s trip to China to meet Chairman Mao Zedong, ending years of diplomatic isolation between the U.S....
The UK Arts Sector Has Been Damaged By Tory Budget Cuts. Time To Rebuild
The Tories have been weaponising the arts for their own purposes in the culture wars – an incredibly cynical and damaging thing to do,...
Germany’s Much-Vaunted Culture Has Turned Rotten
Many Berliners are growing estranged from the cultural institutions our taxes fund. Hard as it is for someone like me to admit, economic hardships...
What Australian Arts Managers Are Noticing In Their Best Workers
They "are noticing in their best workers right now is the ability to recognise where opportunities and/ or learnings can be found in otherwise...
Study: Link Between Formal Music Training And Working Memory
Study author Maria Chiara Pino and her colleagues noted that people with formal musical background i.e., individuals who had formal musical training tend to...
How War In Gaza Is Breaking Up The German Arts World
The conflict in the Middle East is showing Germany in a new light, highlighting fissures in society and the arts world that until now...
Province Of Alberta Invests $103M In Calgary Arts Commons
The province’s contribution to revamp Calgary’s live theatre and arts hub will be spread out over seven years, with the majority of funds distributed...
