Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Trump Effect On Museums
The Trump effect is being felt through executive orders and federal cuts: 34% of museums suffered the cancellation of government grants or contracts; 29%...
How TikTok Transformed Social Media
By presenting an alternative to Meta and Twitter TikTok challenged the idea, pervasive in the early 2020s, that social media’s destiny was terminal decline,...
Paramount Goes To War To Try To Buy Warner
While Paramount is hoping to find a weakness in the Netflix offer, experts say the lawsuit has a low chance of success and would...
Zoe Saldaña Becomes Highest-Earning Actor In History
The 47-year-old Oscar winner has overtaken Scarlett Johansson after the success of Avatar: Fire and Ash added more than $1.2bn to her total. Saldaña’s...
Musician Site Bandcamp Prohibits Music Created With AI
"We believe that the human connection found through music is a vital part of our society and culture, and that music is much more...
Colin Jost And Pete Davidson Bought A Staten Island Ferry, With Big Ambitions. Well…
When they looked at this 2,100-ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event space, with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and...
Broadway Racks Up Another Successful Week At the Box Office, Post Holidays
Attendance for the week ending January 11 was 272,911, down about 13% from the previous week. About 92% of all Broadway seats were filled, compared...
LA Theatres Have New Leadership. How Are They Doing?
The Los Angeles theater world underwent a historic leadership shift in 2023 when two artistic directors of color were placed at the helm of...
Report: Benefits Of AI In Schools Outweighs Risks
The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings...
Truth Social Ads For Nazi-Owned Art Spark Debate
A gallery specialising in art once owned by members of the Third Reich’s leadership, including works personally owned by Adolf Hitler, has prompted conversations...
How Do You Sustain Success As A Musician?
Unlike creators, a performer does not have the benefit of a personal product (or several) that persist over time like a symphony or novel...
What A Photograph Might Tell Us About Consciousness
When I am photographing humans, I want to hear about their lives and aspirations. I care about their aesthetic sensibilities, what they are wearing,...
Smithsonian Replaces Trump Portrait, Removes Impeachment Text
It now contrasts with portraits of other former presidents, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, which all hang alongside...
The AI Abundance Problem
“This isn’t A.I.’s problem. This is our political system’s problem. If you get a massive increase in productivity, how does that wealth get shared...
Word Puzzle: English As A Made-Up Language
The truth is—and this may come as a surprise to some of you—the English language does not exist. English is an entirely borrowed language....
Why Are Some Of Britain’s Best Actors Appearing In This Tiny Theatre?
“I want it to be a theatre where theatre people can come and see a show and that generates a kind of warmth,” he...
Writing About Your Family In Your Novel? See You In Court!
In contemporary European literature, a book these days is often the beginning of a familial feud. With thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of family strife...
News Publishers Are Seeing AI-Summaries Replace Traffic From Search. Response? Make News More Like...
Search traffic to news sites has already plunged by a third in a single year globally, with the rise of AI overviews and chatbots,...
Pressure Mounts On San Francisco Ballet To Pull Out Of Kennedy Center Performance
Supporters argue that performing at the center now risks aligning the Ballet with an institution they say has been politicized under Trump’s leadership. -...
We’re Increasingly Interacting With Non-Humans. This Is Changing Our Human Interactions
We ask for help from artificial customer service representatives. Some of us accept friend requests from bots and are, thereafter, influenced by the content...
Trump Withdrew The US From 66 International Institutions. This Is Damaging To Culture
“Disengagement” from institutions that uphold freedom of expression and artistic freedom “weakens the global protective frameworks on which artists and cultural workers depend.” -...
AI Could Mean The Death Of Canadian Culture
If Canada wants its cultural policy to survive the age of slop, it will have to insist that what claims to be human—and Canadian—be...
Students Are Arriving In College Unable To Read. Colleges Are Struggling To Adapt Their...
As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations. It’s leaving colleges...
I’m A Musician. I created An Album Using AI To See If It Worked
We have gone from clapping to drumming, and from using drum machines in recording studios to generating “new” sounds with AI. Yet now that...
The 3000 Imagineers That Make Disney Ideas Real
The theme parks and cruise ships Vaughn’s team designs cost billions of dollars, dwarfing the budgets of movies that cost several hundred million dollars at most....
