Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Melbourne Gets A New Performing Arts Center
The venue will house a proscenium theatre with a capacity of 600, as well as a 200-seat studio theatre, two rehearsal studios and function...
Why AI Isn’t So Great At Designing Cities (Yet)
“The good modern city doesn’t exist in any dataset that will be sampled by AI. What AI will sample is Chinese cities and cities...
Institutional Critique: Jeremy Harris And The Reevaluation Of Theatre
As the initial shock of the pandemic gave way to a reëvaluation of racial and other societal arrangements, Jeremy Harris became a kind of...
His Work Was Seen By Millions, But He Was Invisible To The Artworld
He was among the most visible artists of the ’70s, with millions seeing his paintings on television each week; yet his work was excluded...
Amazon Will Limit Number Of Books Authors Can Upload To Combat AI Submissions
KDP said that, while it has not yet “seen a spike in our publishing numbers,” it is lowering the number of new titles users...
Take The Money And Run: Museum Sues Artist For Submitting Empty Frames After Being...
The museum provided about 532,000 krone (£61,500) from its reserves to recreate artworks as well as an artist’s fee of about 40,000 krone. But...
Alabama High School Band Leader Tased And Arrested When He Refused To Stop His...
The altercation happened after a Thursday football game as police were trying to clear the stadium. - AL.com
Musicians Sold Their Song Catalogs To Investment Funds For Big Money. Those Investments Haven’t...
Hipgnosis admitted that they sold these songs at 17.5% below their estimated “fair market value.” This added to the already widespread suspicion that current claims of...
Eric Deggans: Streaming Broke TV And Streaming Is Now Broken. Now An Opportunity
The future of the medium – and America – lies in widening our ideas of whose stories are important and making those stories accessible,...
Red States Are Attacking America’s Oldest Library Association
The American Library Association is facing a partisan firefight unlike anything in its almost 150-year history. - Washington Post
How I Lost My Desire To Read
I blithely assumed reading would be mine to reclaim when the right moment arrived. But when I finally looked toward my bookshelves, I found...
In These Times: Three Books Chronicle The Dance Life In New York
“Manhattan’s filled with struggling dancers/instructors running a marathon merry-go-round of rehearsals, gyms, private homes. Our Unlimited Metrocards are swiped up to twenty times a...
How Putin Eliminated Theatre In Russia
New legislation has banned the use of obscenity in literary texts, theatre and cinema. They’ve also censored blasphemy, forbidden the promotion of “non-traditional” (a euphemism...
A Major Ancient Cave Art Discovery
“Once we began the proper systematic survey, we realized we were facing a major cave art site, like the ones that can be found...
Report: Majority Of US Museum Workers Want To Quit
Two-thirds of museum workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, if not the field altogether, according to a survey out this month. The top...
No More History Musicals From Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I’ll give you a scoop: I don’t think I’m writing another history musical ever f - - - - - g again. You think...
A Call For Public Radio To Step Up Their News Operations
The paper, which has been endorsed more than 120 leaders across public media, calls for “bold investment” by local organizations to expand their newsrooms...
Hollywood Stars Working On System To Manage AI Versions Of Themselves
Metaphysic claims that this system could effectively help actors to use generative artificial intelligence algorithms to create their own face, voice and performance data over time,...
Placemaking? – Is That A Typo?
I have a confession to make: I have no idea what "placemaking" is. The more I hear the word, the less I understand it....
Sculptor Fernando Botero, 91
Botero’s paintings of Colombian governmental officials and clergy are now known the world over. He said that when he first started making them, in...
Jann Wenner Defends The Rock Generation
As befits a man who has been held up as an avatar of his generation’s achievements and failings, Wenner has left behind a complex...
For Years Saudi Arabia Waged War On Video Games. Now They Want To Be...
For years, this kingdom’s Islamic clerics waged a war on videogames, banning popular titles such as “Pokémon” for promoting blasphemy, violence and laziness. Now,...
Museum of Modern Art Raises Admission Price To $30
For nearly a dozen years, the adult ticket has been $25. But the museum has since dramatically expanded its footprint in Midtown Manhattan, adding 47,000 square...
A German Town Creating An Artwork That Won’t Be Finished
Wemding’s citizens are assembling at a rate of one six-by-four-foot block every decade. There are 116 more to add before the “Time Pyramid” will...
The Art Inspired By The Webb Telescope
“We designed the telescope to wow the scientists,” Mike Menzel agreed. Now, he said, “We’re here in an art show, watching some images that...
