Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Culture As An Act Of Resistance
As the current administration repeals the right to culture, we, everyday people, must work to keep it. Exercise it to the fullest extent. Dine...
Hundreds Of Culture Workers Sign On To Jane Fonda’s Revival Of The Committee for...
Fonda announced on October 1 that she would revive the Committee for the First Amendment, an anti-censorship group originally formed in 1947 whose members...
Cultural Boycotts Are Ripping UK Arts Organizations Apart
This fraught debate has pitted artists who are broadly in agreement against each other. “There’s so much energy being spent ripping ourselves to shreds...
Taylor Swift Sets Another All-Time Record
Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. The Life of a Showgirl was released...
To Be An Artist In Canada Is To Be Prisoner Of Subsidy
Even if an artist can afford to turn up their nose at it, the entire structure that allows them to show, see, and otherwise...
James Wood On László Krasznahorkai
For many ordinary readers, the idea of entering a fictional world constantly teetering on the edge of a revelation that is always imminent but...
At 93, Is Gerhard Richter Our Greatest Living Artist?
That much will certainly be made clear in a massive Richter retrospective opening this month at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Comprising some...
Gertrude Stein’s Language Experiments Were Considered Difficult. But Let’s Reconsider
“Devotees of her cult professed to find her restoring a pristine freshness and rhythm to language. Medical authorities compared her effusions to the rantings...
American Education Is In A Desperate State. It Is Failing Its Students
We are now seeing what the lost decade in American education has wrought. By some measures, American students have regressed to a level not...
AI Has Been Trained With What’s Online. Not All Knowledge Is Online
These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising...
Broadway Musicians Authorize Strike
The musicians' most recent contract expired August 31, 2025. Since then, the union has been trying to achieve a new contract that includes increased wages,...
Was L’Affaire Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson For The Importance Of Late Night TV?
Amid all the headlines about falling ratings, production cutbacks and monetary losses, it's easy to forget that late-night TV programs have historically occupied a...
How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music
As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces....
How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant
In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no...
Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art
An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of...
Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down
The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously...
What Happened to Kevin Costner?
The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers...
My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress
Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema....
Zadie Smith Ponders The Point Of Essay-Writing
My entire future rested on a few essays written in the school hall under a three-hour time constraint? Really? In the nineties, this was what we called...
Libraries Scramble To Replace Industry’s Biggest Book Distributor
Given the complicated nature of library wholesaling and its existing position in the market, Ingram is well positioned to pick up a sizable chunk...
Scientist Used Sensors To Discover How Pianists’ Touch Changes Timbre
A team led by Dr. Shinichi Furuya at the NeuroPiano Institute and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has provided the first scientific evidence showing...
Will AI Create A Permanent Underclass?
The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear...
Are We Having The Wrong Debates About The AI Actress?
The question isn’t whether the future will be synthetic; it already is. Our challenge now is to ensure that it is also meaningfully human....
Meet America’s New Poet Laureate
“You can’t speed-read a poem,” he explains. “You have to read it, hear the sounds, the rhythms, reread it, not be in a hurry....
Jean Nouvel’s New Museum In Paris Upends The Traditional Gallery
Nouvel’s latest movie: a new home for the Fondation Cartier, a private art foundation established in 1984 that’s dedicated to the accumulation, display and...
