Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Lorne Michaels, Cultural Phenomenon
The promise of SNL under Michaels’ leadership is simple: If you are loyal to the family, you will reap handsome rewards. Over almost 50 years, that...
Too Much: The “-Ification” Of Everything
The suffix “-ification” (also “-ization”), usually attached to words that end in “-ify,” describes change, the process of something becoming different from what it...
Blowing Up Cultural Icons – Why Is Our Pop Culture So Obsessed With This...
"It has struck me lately that the recurrent frenzy of destruction of prized objects in popular culture may tell us less about our current...
Try It Out: The National Mall Is Filled With Monuments. Now Six New Temporary...
The curators Paul Farber and Salamishah Tillet have asked six artists — three women and three men; three of them Black, one Asian, one...
Study On Creativity: A Creative Dance Between Our Brain Networks
The key finding was that, for the eminent creators, there was a higher connectivity, both within each hemisphere, the right and left, but particularly...
Closed Landmark LA Theatre Unsettles Hollywood
The ArcLight has become a Los Angeles mystery, the subject of speculation that befits a movie theater that was always more than just another...
Tod Machover On How AI Will Change Music
“I think the other time when things moved really quickly was 1984,” he says—the year when the personal computer came out. Yet he sees...
World’s Top Chess Federation Makes Peculiar Ruling About Participation Of Transgender Players
Holders of women’s titles who change their genders to male would see those titles “abolished,” the federation said, while holding out the possibility of...
Just How Well Does AI Score In Creativity Tests?
Recent findings from the University of Montana and partners indicate that artificial intelligence can rival the creative abilities of the top 1% of human participants based...
Why Streaming Subscriptions Are Getting So Expensive
After years of burning through mountains of cash to fill their catalogs with original programming, the big SVOD services are now charging their subscribers more than...
Defining How/What Creativity Is In The Brain (Kinda Hard and Maybe Not What You...
Modeling the creative process as a sequence of operations involving distinct brain networks does not correspond to a popular conception of creativity, which is...
Traditional TV Is Dying At An Accelerating Rate
Traditional TV isn’t just competing with Disney Plus and Max; it's competing with YouTube and TikTok, and other video providers that can rely on...
Unionization Of Museum Workers Spreads – Chicago Art Institue Employees Approve Contract
Under the four-year agreement, the more than five hundred workers, who in January 2022 unionized under the auspices of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal...
The Meaning Of America (As In – Why Have We Been Getting So Much...
"The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society...
Inside LA’s Lavish TikTok Content Clubhouses (Totally Fun Read)
Also known as content houses or TikTok mansions, collab houses are grotesquely lavish abodes where teens and early twentysomethings live and work together, trying...
Here’s The Longtime Curator Said To Have Stolen And Sold British Museum Treasures
Peter John Higgs is suspected to have operated for years without detection and to have spirited away uncategorised items from the museum’s collection before...
The Concert Archive Treasures Of Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium, Hidden In Plain Sight
“The challenge has been to transfer it all. I’d say we’ve preserved at least 100 performances. And we’re certainly not done. We are well...
Why A Major Hollywood Talent Agency Is Busy Signing Digital Artists
“The sheer volume of new artists, artworks, and platforms is growing. Think about the impact that YouTube had on a generation of viewers—it completely...
British Museum Fires Employee After Discovering Missing And Damaged Treasures
Items including gold, jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones were among those found to be missing, stolen or damaged. - BBC
The TikTokers Getting Millions Of Reviews For Their Movie Reviews
Maddi Koch, who is a senior at Virginia Tech and is sometimes paid by film companies to promote their work, says she makes videos...
Neuroscientists Reconstruct Pink Floyd Song From Brain Scan Of Listener
Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley reconstructed Pink Floyd’s classic rock song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” using recordings of the...
“Barbie” Brought People Back To Movie Theatres. Will They Return?
Peak, who has now seen Barbie twice, thinks she might see more movies in theaters, if studios, "could replicate something where it's more of an event for us...
How August Wilson Changed Theatre
"He was viscerally aware that the essence of dramatic art is found in the living, breathing doing of it with a collective cast of...
40-Year-Old Portland Oregon Theatre Shuts Down, Blames “National Crisis” In Theatre
Leaders of Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre announced on Tuesday they are canceling the 2023-24 season, just as the company was beginning rehearsals for one of the...
Goodbye Toxic Online Comments? OpenAI Building AI-Driven Content Moderation System
The company wrote in a blog post that GPT-4 can not only help make content moderation decisions, but aid in developing policies and swiftly iterating on...
