Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
To What Extent Is Misinformation Changing How We Think?
Misinformation is most commonly defined as anything that is factually inaccurate, but not intended to deceive: in other words, people being wrong. However, it...
How Art Schools Are Approaching Artificial Intelligence
“It feels like the birth of photography all over again.” - Artnet
Scientists Believe Neural Networks Have Cracked Critical Essence Of Intelligence
Since the 1980s, a subset of cognitive scientists have argued that neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), aren't viable models of the mind because their architecture...
New Yorker Magazine’s Most-Popular Cartoon Ever Breaks Record For Sale Of A Cartoon
That comic, which has gone on to be the most reprinted in the magazine’s history, proves so enduringly popular that it recently sold at auction for...
Neuro-Study: Why We Communicate Less Well Over Video Conference
The research suggests online faces, with present technology, don’t engage our social neural circuits as effectively. - Neuroscience News
Why AI Doesn’t Understand Slang
Language models, in the most basic sense, represent our 26-letter alphabet in strings of numbers. Those digits might efficiently condense large amounts of information....
A Portland Oregon Theatre Lays Off Staff (Including Its Artistic Director) But Is Still...
It’s certainly arguable that the company overreached in pursuing such an extensive rebuild, rather than limping along in what was left of the old...
Expanding An Orchestra’s Mission To Community
At a time when many classical music and other traditional arts organizations are facing major challenges, a young conductor in Louisville, Kentucky, is expanding...
Biologist Turns Amateur Art Sleuth And Cracks An Art History Puzzle
“I would love it if someone published a paper about one of the three paintings confirming or refuting my findings, so we could start...
Right Wing Journalist Nominated To Lead Venice Biennale
Since coming to power last fall, Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her party the Fratelli d’Italia have been installing right-leaning candidates into leadership positions in...
Fascinating List – Here Are The Most-Banned Books In US Prisons
The list includes Amy Schumer’s memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, flagged by Florida officials for graphic sexual content and for being...
Public Radio Station Sees Huge Ratings Boost With High-Context News
“We've been in a crazy news cycle, people are coming to us for nuance and context, like they've been doing many public...
Tate Modern Reopens Its Controversial Panoramic Viewing Platform
The rooftop viewing gallery was designed to give panoramic views of the city, and it opened in 2016. It quickly became the subject of...
Is Our Definition Of Creativity Too Narrow?
You can show creativity in countless activities, from organising storage space to trimming shrubs to fixing a hole in your wall to training the...
2023 List: America’s Most Arts-Vibrant Cities
Adjusting values on a per capita basis as well as accounting for differences in costs of living enable this analysis to level the playing...
Board Of The Much-Troubled Banff Centre Is Fired
The Province of Alberta has sacked the board and appointed an administrator to oversee and assess. The institution has suffered for years with poor...
This Is What AI Thinks Is Attractive Humans
When an AI image-generation tool—like the ones made by Midjourney, Stability AI, or Adobe—is prompted to create a picture of a person, that person...
Spotify Says It Will De-Monetize Least-Popular Tracks
Presumably, Spotify will frame this as a way to combat fraud and to limit payments to ambient-noise generators, but it could also have a...
Why American Theatre Magazine Is Back In Print
"We weathered our own shutdown of sorts, pausing our print publication in May 2020. Now that we’re back on ink and paper, I have frequently...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet Gets A New Director
Elena Tupyseva was hired by the Moscow Department of Culture in 2012 for the position of CEO and artistic director of the City Theatre Ballet...
Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing
In her last years as an editor, Morrison helped lead the chorus of those calling to take up arms against conglomeration. - LitHub
Grand New Vision For Paris’ Grand Palais
Since taking on his role on September 1, Didier Fusillier has been eager to revive this “rather magnificent memory” of the Grand Palais’s history when the elegant...
Are You Really Smart? Then You’re Humble
Being intellectually humble means being open to the possibility you could be wrong about your beliefs. - The Conversation
Artists Say They’re Being Punished for Supporting Gaza Ceasefire
Hyperallergic has spoken with multiple artists, all of whom asked to remain anonymous, who said they had received threatening phone calls and emails from their...
Fanny Mendelssohn Was A Great Composer. But Women Musicians Didn’t Have Music Careers
Fanny was still allowed to compose and perform, but only in private. And yet inconveniently, she turned out to have a talent so enormous...
