Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The State Of Dance On TV and Film
Four prominent dancemakers working in film and television discuss the current state of the industry. - Dance Magazine
Man Causes $240K Of Damage To Chihuly Glass At Museum
A security guard found the man damaging colorful glass plant sculptures around 11 p.m. in an outdoor area on the museum’s grounds, according to a...
Democrats Question Disposal Of Artworks In Federal Buildings Listed For Sale
In the letter, the senators note that the GSA has posted 46 buildings that have been identified for “accelerated disposal,” a process that expedites...
The Benefits Of Audiobooks
Audiobooks offer significant benefits, primarily increasing reading accessibility, enabling multitasking during daily chores or commutes, and boosting comprehension for auditory learners. - Good E-Reader
Scholars See Serious Threat Of AI In The Humanities
In the “humanities” – most scholars see AI as a unique threat, one that extends far beyond cheating on homework and casts doubt on...
Dictionary/Encyclopedias Sue AI Companies Over Copyright
Britannica, which owns Merriam-Webster, retains the copyright to nearly 100,000 online articles, which have been scraped and used to train OpenAI’s LLMs without permission,...
How Do We Calibrate The Use Of AI In Education?
So what does “getting learning right” look like in the age of generative AI? It involves a lot of experimentation and leaning in with...
AI Is Showing Where The Gaps In Education Are
With AI, students can generate code that looks polished and sophisticated in seconds. But the ability to produce a solution has become decoupled from...
The Case Against Streaming
It is not simply that Netflix and co are killing cinema – although, yes, that is a thing that is objectively bad. It is that...
How The Land Art Movement Changed Our Perspective
The closest thing land art has to an origin story is a dusty road trip three of its early protagonists, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt...
Study: Use Of AI Leads To Greater Creativity In Humans
When people were shown AI-generated design suggestions, they spent more time on the task, produced better designs and felt more involved. It was not...
How Manhattan Is Trying To Design Itself Into Better Climate Resilience
Inspired by the vulnerabilities revealed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, ESCR features a series of protective features — walls, earthen berms and sliding doors...
Kennedy Center Board Votes To Close For Two Years
The full scope of the renovations is not entirely clear. But Mr. Trump has said that both structural and internal work was needed, noting...
How Did A Tiny Obscure Art School Get A $2M NEH Grant?
The grant was about as large as the school’s annual budget. And like many of the agency’s other recent multimillion-dollar awards, it went to a...
History Of Triumphant Arches: An Empire In Decline
Some of the most famous iterations in ancient Rome and Napoleonic France warn us of the tendency of republics to devolve into autocratic empires. -...
Think You Can Tell If That Song You Like Was Made By AI?
The Afro-soul cover highlights a growing challenge — the difficulty identifying when generative AI has been used in production — and how audiences, platforms...
The Prestige Novel Is Dead
Although the literary novel remains the touchstone for what “elite” cultural status might mean, its former midcentury monopoly on prestige, Brier claims, has been...
How Math And Literature Are Closely Related
Literature and mathematics have these strong connections because mathematics is all about structure and pattern. It's the language we use to describe those things. -...
Study: Autocomplete Changes How People Write
Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI. - Scientific American
That Wallpaper Music That Surrounds Us
Sync, it’s called. Once it was known as library music; sometimes it’s called production music. It’s not really a genre. It’s a category, defined...
How Barnes & Noble Became Popular Again
Barnes & Noble is experiencing a revival. It opened 60 new stores last year and plans to do the same this year. It is reportedly soliciting banks to...
Trump Now Wants To Replace Columns On The Front Of The White House With...
The Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those...
Richard Grenell Out At The Kennedy Center
He leaves behind an institution that is drastically changed, and in many ways diminished, from a year ago, when Mr. Trump installed himself as chairman and filled...
Eight Projects By This Year’s Pritzker Prize Winning Architect
Following the news that Smiljan Radić has won this year's delayed Pritzker Architecture Prize, we round up eight projects from the Chilean architect's experimental career. - Dezeen
Why Aren’t Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Selling?
The architect’s passion for combining design and nature meant that many of his residences were built in rural areas. Because of their pedigree, they...
