Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Are Those Immersive Van Gogh Shows Just A Money Grab?
Leading digital artists have claimed that some of the most popular commercial immersive experiences, particularly those based on the work of deceased artists, such...
This Year’s Whitney Biennial Reflects The Chaotic Precariousness Of Now
The drastic phase of the pandemic, with its restrictions, may have receded. But the landscape left in its wake is a panorama of compounding...
Flailing NPR Hires A Non-Journalist As Its Next CEO
Before joining Web Summit, she spent seven years as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, where she drove growth in global readership and impact while...
So The Oscars Say “Barbie” Is An “Adapted” Screenplay? It Doesn’t Make Sense
Moving “Barbie” from the best original screenplay category — where it was the probable winner over films like “The Holdovers” and “Past Lives” —...
First-Ever Study: What Works Dance Companies Worldwide Are Performing This Season
Among the 33 global companies studied, 23.6% of works in the 2023/2024 season are choreographed by women. - Dance Data Project
Amanda Palmer On Why Crowdfunding Works
It’s the opposite of magic: it’s a salary that I pull from a community that trusts me. - The Big Idea
Consider The Cultural Meaning Of The Hoodie
Perhaps no other garment is so charged, or so fraught, in this country as the hoodie. - The Point
The Inherent Difficulties In Writing About Office Work
Unfortunately, for those of us who write about them, white-collar workplaces are not inherently high-drama. As an employee, this is ideal. For a nonfiction...
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...
