Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Will A Show Of Chuck Close’s Final Work Help Restore His Place In Art?
Arne Glimcher said the controversy surrounding Close is not his concern. “There has been too much about Chuck that isn’t about the art,” he...
100 Years Later “Rhapsody In Blue” Is Still Riling Up Debate
Rhapsody in Blue opened up a wider set of debates about the relationship between “high art” and popular art, about racism and cultural differences, about...
America’s Prisons See Opera As A Security Threat
Prison authorities see a threat to security in a staggering array of literature, art and music. Connecticut has banned 334 individual books, magazines and...
The New York Times Unique Argument In Its Copyright Case Against AI Companies
It argues that as a reputable and trusted source, its articles have additional weight and reliability in training generative AI and are part of...
Comcast And Paramount Talk About Combining Peacock And Paramount+ Into A Package
Along with making access to the two platforms comparatively cheaper than buying separate subscriptions, the partnership would help Comcast and Paramount “produce significant cost...
So Who’s Winning In The Artists-Versus-AI-Companies Copyright Lawsuit?
U.S. copyright law is extremely complicated, and the technology bears features that don’t resemble anything seen in earlier technology transitions. Put them together, and...
AI And The End Of Websites
”In the future, a company’s AI agent—basically the AI version of that company—will be just as important as their website,” says Taylor. “It's going...
AI Is Letting Us Read Ancient Scrolls At Herculaneum For The First Time
The news that we could finally read these still rolled-up papyri hit me like a lightning bolt. In the past, opening the scrolls, even...
Does Perfection Have To Be The Measure Of Ballet?
Is it possible to imagine the ballet world without a primary teleology of aesthetic perfectionism and a baseline of low self-worth? Is it possible...
Why Fight Over Equality? Just Define It My Way
In a famous essay, the economist and philosopher Amartya Sen pointed out that we are all in favour of equality. We just disagree about...
The Copyright Wars (In Perspective)
Though invisible to most people, copyright, the authors point out, is the legal matrix underlying the wealth of nations today, with copyrights in design,...
Urban Planning: Street Grids Are Making a Comeback
We were the victims of an American approach to city planning that had lost its way. But the next generation of kids may not...
LACMA’s Looted Art Problem
For experts in museum ethics, LACMA’s handling of the situation — which partisans see as a proxy battle in a larger war over evolving...
Kansas Senate Cancels Public Broadcasting Funding Cut After Embarrassment
Republican senators objected to an LGBTQ documentary. - Current
A New Magazine For Art Criticism
"Our goal is to shift industry standards. Capitalism swallows its own critiques, and we really are dedicated to waiting to scale. We have ambitions...
A Rising Movement For Academic Freedom (But How To Define It?)
Over the past year, faculty groups dedicated to academic freedom have sprung up at Harvard, Yale and Columbia, where even some liberal scholars argue...
Can Humans Survive AI?
“Biological extinction, that’s not the point. The light of humanity and our understanding, our intelligence — our consciousness, if you will — can go on without meat humans.”...
How Arts Council England Coerces
"A number of programming staff at a major ACE-funded organisation recently described to me how they were investigated by its HR department after inviting...
Royal Ontario Museum To Redesign, Make First Floor Free Admission
"We call it OpenROM, a transformative project that will both literally and figuratively open the museum up even more, creating a thriving cultural and...
Like A Switch Flipped: Today’s College Students Have A Reading Comprehension Disability
Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no...
Judge Throws Out Some Artist Claims Against OpenAI
In the ruling, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín threw out claims on vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA violations, negligence, and unjust enrichment. The court did not believe...
The Allure Of The Grand Gesture
Classic grand gestures from novels and films are defined by a kind of sacrifice: hallmarks include the willingness to be rejected. - The Point
BodyTraffic Aims To Be LA’s Dance Company
For most of its existence BODYTRAFFIC has been better known and more appreciated outside of LA than in its hometown, in great part because...
A Transformative Calder Gift To The Seattle Art Museum
Last April, the Shirleys donated 48 works by Alexander Calder to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). While Calders proliferate in museums across the globe, these are...
A Transformative $60 Million Gift To San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet has received a groundbreaking gift: It announced on Thursday that it had secured a $60 million contribution from an anonymous donor,...
