Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Threat Of AI Is Not To Art But To The Ability To Make...
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor. - The New York Times
As Our Culture Diet Becomes More Synthetic, The “Realness” Of Live Experience Will Be...
As the world becomes more digital, more "optimized", and more isolated, the value of embodied, shared, human experience increases, not decreases. And we’re already...
How Small Museums Are Going Viral
Small museums, looking to raise their profiles and educate the masses, are turning their paintings, sculptures and tapestries into the unlikely stars of TikTok...
Corporate America Is “Desperate To Hire Storytellers”
While the heyday of technology gurus, developer ninjas, SEO rockstars and at least one digital prophet have long since passed, calling salaried communications professionals...
Study: 87 Percent Of Musicians Are Using AI In Their Work
It found that 87% of artists have incorporated AI into at least one part of their process. AI is powering a new era of self-sufficient...
Time For The Art Market To Be “Right-Sized”
There is another way of looking at the shake-ups and shutdowns that have defined the art trade in 2025. Instead of a collapse, the...
The Re-Rise Of The Middlebrow?
Whereas the modernists and postmodernists tended to use low culture as a vast reserve of references, tropes, and stock characters to be deployed as...
The 56 Artists Chosen For The 2026 Whitney Biennial
Guerrero said the biennial—which is the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the US—will interrogate themes such as kinship and infrastructure to try and...
Get The Popcorn: The Battle To Buy Warner Bros. Is Pure Entertainment
You couldn’t avoid the irony: The drama for how traditional Hollywood will be devoured is now as entertaining as anything Hollywood could ever come...
Study: Australian Theatre Pay Lags
Drawing on data from 92 Australian performing arts organisations with annual turnovers of between $250,000 and $4 million, the survey charts the persistently lagging...
Two Generations Of Rothschilds Battle Over Their “Mini-Louvre” Art Collection
The lawsuits centre on the family’s extensive collection of furniture, priceless historic objects and paintings held at the baronial domain, the Chateau de Pregny...
AI Is Causing Havoc With Recipe Bloggers
The AI had taken elements of similar recipes from multiple creators and Frankensteined them into something barely recognizable. In one memorable case, the Google AI failed to...
North Carolina County Dissolves Library Board Over Decision On Book About A Transgender Boy
Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program at free-expression advocacy group PEN America, said Randolph County’s decision to dissolve its library board...
Virtually No Support In UK For Government’s “Opt-Out” Plan For AI And Artists
Only 3% of people backed the government’s initial preferred tech company-friendly option, which was to require artists and copyright holders to actively opt out...
Critics’ Consensus: This Year’s Best Shows On Broadway
“Liberation” was the only clear-cut consensus choice among the professional critics, as you’ll see below. - New York Theatre
Museum Tracker: This Year’s Most-Favored Artists
A narrow band of stars feature in a lot of shows, followed by a long tail of artists with much more limited visibility. Only...
The Disney/OpenAI Deal: How the Creative Landscape is Being Rewritten for Us All
Like it or not, Disney's move is a big step closer to what an AI creative world might look like.
Angelinos Are Flocking To LA Bars… To Listen To Academic Lectures
Attendees hear thought-provoking talks from experts on wide-ranging topics such as Taylor Swift’s use of storytelling in her music, how AI technology is being...
Building Boom: A New Generation Of Opera Houses
The world is now witnessing a renewed investment in large-scale cultural venues that aim to restore music’s physical and communal dimensions. These projects attempt...
How Teachers Are Trying To Get Around AI Chatbots
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence...
How The Tate Museum Lost Its Way
It’s become genuinely hard to understand what Tate’s priorities are when it chooses artists for the annual Turbine Hall commission. And the Turner prize...
The Best Visual Art Of 2025
In large and small shows under-the-radar artists surfaced and were hot. At the same time, the arrival of a new political order firing off...
Librarians Are Struggling To Keep Up With Bad AI Queries
Around 15 percent of all the reference questions received by her staff are written by generative AI, some of which include imaginary citations and...
Artists Protest San Francisco Airport Museum’s Use Of AI Art
Nettrice Gaskins’ artwork sparked a passionate discussion about AI Thursday when a video of the exhibit posted to the Bay Area subreddit drew hundreds of comments...
AI Can Now Analyze Language Better Than Humans
“It’s only a matter of time before we are able to build models that generalize better from less data in a way that is...
