Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Trump Fires Entire Presidio Board
A year after threatening to "dramatically" downsize the operations of San Francisco's Presidio, President Donald Trump has terminated the park's board of trustees. - San...
Finnish Violinist Says He Won’t Perform In The US Due To The Political Situation
’I would like to, with utmost sensitivity and respect, suggest to the administrations of the major American orchestras to consider using your voices... I’m quite...
EU Tells Venice Biennale To Justify Russia’s Inclusion Or Lose Funding
The letter, invoking the charge that the Biennale had violated EU sanctions against Russia, asks the exhibition to “respond to these allegations” and “inform...
How AI Will Kill Content Platforms
Not only will AI agents compete away the revenue streams of the giant digital platforms, but they will also render irrelevant the data on...
Paramount Responds To Industry Protests To Its Warner Deal
“This transaction uniquely brings together complementary strengths to create a company that can greenlight more projects, back bold ideas, support talent across multiple stages...
When You Take Up A Musical Instrument Late In Life
If this attempt to reclaim the instrument of my youth had been a mistake, I wasn’t alone in making it. Asking around, I became...
A Professor Gets Besotted With His Chatbot
An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away...
Why Has Culture Gone Flat?
Capitalism—and then late capitalism, and then late, late capitalism—has been identified as the culprit for culture’s flattening for at least a century. David Marx...
Is The Internet’s Most Complete Archiver On Its Death Bed?
According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the...
Dean, Westminster College of Media & Performing Arts
Rider University seeks a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as the Inaugural Dean of the Westminster College of Media & Performing Arts.
1000 Hollywood Heavyweights Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Deal
The letter warns that merging two of Hollywood’s major studios will result in “fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher...
Someone Will Win This Picasso For €100
A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going...
Asha Bhosle, 92, The Voice Of Bollywood
Bhosle, who recorded more than 12,000 songs, became her country’s pre-eminent exponent of playback singing – recording tracks that were then lip-synced on film...
New Focus On Dancer Wellness At School Of American Ballet
The Artistic Health and Wellness Student Center, which opened in September, is a $4.7 million expansion of the school, the training ground for New...
US Colleges Face An Enrollment Death Spiral
According to a recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, about 60 are closing on average each year; that number could double in any...
Why Greece’s Crackdown On Art Crime Might Not Amount To Much
It is highly unlikely that the Greek police will proactively search for fakes and forgeries. The expertise to identify fraud is held in the...
The Culture Of Comics Is Transforming
Our current age of comics is one in which comics can be consumed through global digital platforms like Marvel Unlimited, Webtoons, Shonen Jump and so on, all without...
All In? (Or Not): The Existential Bet On AI
Artificial intelligence will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all. It is the most important invention in human history or a scam....
Do-Gooders And The Pointlessness Of Jobs
The few jobs today that are tangibly useful—say, social workers and science teachers—pay far less than the mass of uninspiring administrative and middle-management roles...
Language And The Battle For Democracy
If ‘language is one of the keys to individual autonomy’, the central challenge in a linguistic landscape being flattened and standardized by AI is...
Hilde Limondjian, Longtime Met Museum Music Curator, 89
Hilde Limondjian, who spent more than four decades bringing music to the auditorium — and the galleries — of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Obama Library Announces Artist Commissions For The Presidential Library
The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud, Martin Puryear, Lorna...
If They Aren’t Reading, Why Are We Making Fun Of Them?
Literary ridicule used to sting politicians into shame. Now they don't read books, don't care about cultural criticism, and certainly don't lose sleep over...
Can Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre Rise Again Under New Leadership?
Under their new leadership, Victory Gardens has hosted a writers’ workshop, a showcase of new works in collaboration with New Musical Chicago, and a...
LA Museums Polish Up for Their Olympic Moment
The Getty and Page Museum are getting Olympic-ready makeovers, because nothing says 'world-class cultural destination' like frantically renovating before the global spotlight hits. Strategic...
