Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Study: Arts Impact On The Cincinnati Economy Is $1.6 Billion
The impacts of the arts go beyond annual operating expenses, data shows. The $751 million in capital investments since 2015 have generated an additional...
Next Up: Holographic Professors (Students Love It)
Prof Vikki Locke, the director of undergraduate studies at Loughborough business school, said students “absolutely love” the technology and have been begging for selfies...
The Academy Clearly Doesn’t Understand “Barbie”
Before the nominations, there were whispers that snobbery would derail the film’s Oscar hopes, but the results show some puzzlement on the part of...
Four Ways AI Is Changing Music
AI tools analyse vast amounts of music data to learn patterns and styles, enabling them to generate compositions in any genre. This technology is not just...
Climate Disaster Movies Make More Impact Than Journalism
The power of cinema in communicating the climate crisis is undeniable. This is becoming increasingly apparent in my own research on the history of the environmental...
Entities Cranking Out Fake Research Papers Have A New Tactic — Bribing Editors
Cash-rich paper mills have evidently adopted a new tactic: bribing editors and planting their own agents on editorial boards to ensure publication of their...
Greil Marcus On The Art Of Writing Criticism
"I realized I had a choice as a writer: make the world bigger and more interesting and live in that world, and find a...
Performer In Marina Abramovic’s Nude Performance in 2010, Sues Museum Of Modern Art
"A performance artist who participated as a nude performer in the 2010 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present” has...
Why Was The Art Gallery Of Ontario’s First Indigenous Curator Abruptly Fired In November?
News that Wanda Nanibush, the first Canadian and Indigenous art curator at the AGO, was leaving the institution shocked the Canadian art world. The...
Ethical Considerations For AI in Art
Striking a balance between leveraging AI for creative enhancement and preserving the human element in art is a critical ethical consideration related to creative...
Why Are Theatre Audiences Behaving So Badly?
Perhaps there’s a feeling that, having spent upwards of, say, 180 quid on a pair of tickets for something, they’re entitled to a five...
Australia’s Live Music Venues Being Squeezed Out By Increasing Insurance Costs
While some people’s bar-going and spending habits have shifted since the pandemic (not everyone is returning to their regular bar or pub-going routines), by...
Linguists Pick Their (Admittedly Quirky) Word Of The Year
In contrast to the prominent dictionaries that designated as their word of the year “rizz,” “hallucinate” and “authentic,” the American Dialect Society celebrates linguistic variation to...
A New Generation Of Architecture Wars
Architecture has been hit by a new sobriety. Tradition, apparently, is back. The reaction against ultramodern architecture arrived slowly at first, but accelerated with...
AI Writing May Be Aesthetically Pleasing But Incoherent. Okay With That?
The device has no way of knowing what its words refer to, as humans would, or even what it means for words to refer...
Maxine Mahon, 82, San Diego Dance Doyenne
For 50 years, Maxine Mahon was San Diego’s doyenne of dance as the founder and director of California Ballet Co., which despite its closure...
You Don’t Need To “Know” About Art. It’s Just The Way It Works
I find that the less I say about my music, the better. If I say anything, it tends to be oblique or oracular: words...
Poland’s Court Refuses Government Plan To Liquidate Public Broadcaster
The decision marks a further legal blow to the new government’s efforts to regain control of public media from the former ruling Law and...
What If We Removed The Politics From Social Media?
Most social media algorithms are programmed to optimise the spread of inflammatory content, “fuelling the maelstrom of online political debate and, despite what the...
Remembering The Outsized Impact Of Diane Ragsdale
As an activist-thinker, Diane understood the ecologies of culture. She mapped them at the intersection of aesthetics, economics, and ethics, circling versions of the...
Marketing And Hype Are Overwhelming The Creative Economy
Rather than cajole or badger, campaigns now invite consumers to join the conversation. They’ve recognized that anyone can amplify their message, whether through social...
Celebrities Are Mad About AI Deepfakes. Congress Might Make A Law (Uh-Oh)
The new bill, called the No AI FRAUD Act and introduced by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), would establish legal definitions...
Director Norman Jewison, 97
Jewison, whose career began in Canadian television and spanned more than 50 years, was, like his close friend Sidney Lumet and a select few other directors,...
Tanya Berezin, Broadway Force, 82
At the Circle Repertory Company, where she said her goal was to “confuse people,” she nurtured a new generation of writers and actors in...
Pitchfork Was Iconic. So What? The Kids Have Moved On From Reviews Of Any...
Forget the death of newspapers and magazines (that’s old news about old news), we are now in the end of the era of websites...
