Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What Does It Mean To Be An Artist In The Era Of Everyone-Has-A-Camera-At-All-Times?
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what...
End Of An Era: Gannett Newspapers Ends Relationship With AP Wire
The news ends a deep and decades-long relationship between one of the world’s largest news organizations and one of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers....
Cities Were Supposed To Be The Future. In The 21st Century They’ve Become A...
Never is it discussed that a cordoned-off, highly policed, highly regulated urban fabric of the kind that exists in every metropolitan center in the...
Justice Department Sues Apple Over Antitrust
In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their...
American Youth Symphony Shuts Down
The American Youth Symphony, which shut down on Friday, is — or rather was — one of the few large national organizations involved in the vital transition...
Reinventing The Concert Subscription
"Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay...
Our Constant Entertainment Culture Has Trapped Us In The Metaverse
Dystopias often share a common feature: Amusement, in their skewed worlds, becomes a means of captivity rather than escape. - The Atlantic
Is China’s Love Affair With The Piano Waning?
Piano lessons for children were all the rage not too many years ago, but that trend seems to have withered, while lessons in traditional...
And Now… The Scary Immersive Theatre Experience
"A scared-sounding young man told me that there was a monster in his closet. Obviously, I was supposed to tell him to open the...
Banksy Tree Mural Defaced With White Paint Days After It Appeared
Despite being surrounded by a protective metal fence, white paint was thrown onto the artwork and discovered by local residents on the morning of...
Machine Breakthrough In Reading Ancient Texts
Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 columns of ancient Greek text from within a carbonized papyrus...
Silicon Valley Disruption Comes To A Books Model
Authors Equity brings Silicon Valley–style startup disruption to the business of books. It has a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network...
The Artworld Hoax That Fooled Virginia Woolf
For most of their adult lives, the two women employed an elaborate hoax in which Hepworth’s paintings were exhibited and sold under Preece’s name....
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Leisure reading has been linked to a range of good academic and professional outcomes—as well as difficult to fully explain. But a chief factor seems to be the...
Review Of Arts Council England As Agency Under Fire
The UK scientist Mary Archer will scrutinise how Arts Council England (ACE) distributes public subsidies as part of a wide-ranging review overseen by the...
How Universal Music Group Is Lobbying On AI
UMG played an instrumental role in bringing together a coalition of 150-plus organizations both in and outside the industry last year for the Human Artistry...
What It Was Like To Be Martha Graham
Graham began her aesthetic experiments some 40 years before government arts funding was a gleam in anyone’s eye. The dancers sewed their own costumes,...
New Zealand’s Museums Are In Crisis
What the research revealed was an overworked workforce overly reliant on volunteers, snowballing costs and shrinking funding. Small museums and galleries in the provinces...
Warhol Museum Director To Step Down
Patrick Moore joined the Warhol Museum as the director of development in 2011, and assumed other leading administrative roles at the museum before being...
What LitBlogging Turned Into
In short, the literary weblog may have prepared the way for a critical writing about literature online that not just rivalled but eventually exceeded...
Report: Many Of World’s Biggest Museums Have Recovered To Pre-COVID Visitor Numbers
The number of people visiting the most-visited 100 museums fell from 230 million in 2019 to just 54m in 2020. Although the total number of...
Tim Page Remembers Byron Janis
For years, Mr. Janis was one of the best-known classical musicians in the world, playing major stages from Philadelphia to Paris. - Washington Post
Why Are An Increasing Number Of Writers Okay With Censoring Other Writers?
The spectacle of writers refusing to entertain the work of other writers in the name of freedom never fails to dispirit, though at this...
Site Clones 3000 Deepfake Pop Voices For Use In Music
The site, which has described itself as the “#1 platform for making high quality AI covers in seconds,” has become big enough to warrant...
British Museum Had Record Number Of Visitors In 2023
Figures showed the South Kensington attraction had its best-ever year, with a 22% increase in visitors to 5,688,786. The most-visited outdoor attraction was Windsor...
