Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Seattle Theatre Group Became An Entertainment Juggernaut
This year, it will present over 700 shows across its stages, from pop music to Broadway musicals and seemingly everything in between. In recent...
The Temple Of Arvo Pärt
The whole place exudes the ethos of Pärt, whose music demands love and dedication from its interpreters yet almost nothing of its listeners, offering...
How Teacher Evaluations Broke Good Education
Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point. The scores factor into academics’ pay, hiring, and chance to...
How Our Brains Distinguish Reality From Imagination
We tend to think that we perceive reality as it is, with cameralike eyes that objectively log the light that hits them. But as...
San Francisco Music Club Bans AI Poster Art
Although some devil’s advocates might say that AI use democratizes the ability to create high-quality promotional materials, Agan feels like the aesthetic just isn’t in...
National Gallery’s Decision To Expand Into 20th Century Risks Conflict With Tate
A decision to tear up an agreement between the National Gallery and Tate, which has prevented the National Gallery from collecting works created after 1900, could...
Restoration Of Ancient Babylon Is Drawing Tourists
Largely funded by the US embassy in Baghdad, the restoration of the temple and the north retaining wall are part of the Future of...
Who’s Suing AI Companies (And Who’s Making Deals)
Many more now have signed deals with the AI companies which commonly include the use of their content as reference points for user queries...
Ralph Rugoff To Leave Hayward Gallery
Rugoff is most famous internationally for his 2019 Biennale, which saw the 79 artists included—a relatively low number for the world’s biggest art festival—each...
Texas Public Radio Stations Scramble To Stay Funded And Stay Relevant
“Stations were never intended to be completely dependent on federal funding. The more existential crisis is how we continue to be relevant.” - Texas...
The Things That Follow You Around Once You First Notice Them
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a type of cognitive bias where, once you learn about something – such as...
How Juilliard Is Becoming Tuition-Free
The number of tuition-free students will continue to increase on a rolling basis across all of Juilliard. “We’re looking at a multiyear campaign, and...
AI Is Helping Decipher Ancient Unreadable Manuscripts. Here’s How
The researchers’ model allows for the generation of synthetic data to accurately model key degradation processes and overcome the scarcity of information contained in...
Artist Fights Destruction Of His Fountain In San Francisco
A lawyer representing the artist Armand Vaillancourt has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the City of San Francisco in response to the controversial plan to demolish...
Domination Play: Skydance Paramount To Bid To Buy Warner
By preparing a play for the company before Warner’s planned split, Paramount Skydance is attempting to pre-empt a potential bidding war for the studio...
Steve Schick: How Music Ought To Work On Us
While the presence of listeners seems axiomatic at every stage of music history, it has become indispensable now. Fostering dialogue, spoken or unspoken, within...
French Museums Close Because Of Labor Strikes
Art museums and cultural monuments in France, including the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Arc de Triomphe, are partially or fully closed to...
A New Festival Exploring AI In Opera
Planned for its first edition, set to run from June 4 to 7 next year, is a symposium exploring A.I. and opera-making, followed by...
Hope For Humanities Studies?
In my own classroom, I’ve encountered surprising signs of renewed life in the humanities, which suggest that a renaissance could be possible, at least...
Protests Dog Powell’s Books After Company Uses AI-Created Designs
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from this whole snafu—which alas seems likelier to be the beginning of a trend, rather than the end of one—is...
Does AI Defeat The Purpose Of a Humanities Education?
While the two of us disagree on whether there are any valid uses of AI in the research process, using AI to “improve” one’s...
Here Are The Best Architectural Installations From This Year’s Burning Man
Volunteers, artists, and designers came together to create massive works to be enjoyed alongside the music, cultural activities, and other offerings of the festival,...
Are Colleges Making A Mistake In Their Approach To AI?
Teaching students how to use AI tools in fields where they are genuinely necessary is one thing. But infusing the college experience with the...
A Year Ago The Bellevue Arts Museum Closed. Are Its Days As A Museum...
Court documents and records obtained through public records, as well as reporting and interviews, shed more light on what could be next for the...
Big Dance Grant Program Ends. Now What?
Earlier this year, the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), which administers the grant, announced that a lead funder, the Mellon Foundation, would...
