Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
German Artist Sentenced To Jail In Absentia In Moscow For Art Mocking Putin In...
A German artist who created carnival displays mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin was sentenced in absentia on Thursday to 8 1/2 years in prison by a...
What Age-Verification Laws Are Really About: Centralized Control And Censorship
The letter characterizes this tech, also known as “age assurance,” as a tactic for the “centralization of power.” The letter notes, “Those deciding which...
What’s This? Optimism In LA’s Classical Music Scene?
Arts philanthropy is essential but elusive. Even so, there is a curious — and hopefully not delusional — optimism in classical music, L.A. style....
Documents: Ticketmaster Raised Fees After All-In Pricing Was Forced On It
The Federal Trade Commission last May began requiring Ticketmaster to disclose concert ticket fees upfront – a practice known as all-in pricing. But documents obtained by...
A Crisis In Writing? Let’s Consider It Historically
For the first 40,000 years of its existence, it was simply an abstract symbolic system to process complex data; only in the last 3,000...
China Orders Audit Of All Its Museums After Nanjing Scandal
China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had...
Australian Lawmakers Are Trying To Understand What The Arts Need
Last week, the Federal Government’s recently established Parliamentary Inquiry into Arts and Cultural Philanthropy held its first significant hearing. - ArtsHub
What The People Running Dance Companies Earn
Among the Largest 50 companies, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, artistic directors earned an average of $240,741. This represents an increase compared to FY2023, during which...
Who Should Design New York City’s Next Wave Of Iconic Buildings?
New York is missing out on the ideas of designers who could find surprising paths through an obstacle course of conventions, whose experience with...
Temporary Artistic Program Assistant
The APA will work closely with the Artistic team to support scheduling, program infrastructure, and smooth processes. View the job description and apply at milwaukeerep.com/about/work-us/jobs/
Study: UK Teachers Report Decline In Student Cognitive Skills Because Of AI
Two-thirds said they had observed the decline among children who they also said no longer felt the need to spell because of voice-to-text technology....
Why You Should Break Up With Your Kindle
The Kindle ecosystem is perhaps the apotheosis of this shift. One Guardian reporter found Amazon had recorded every title, highlight and page turn on...
Trump’s Plans For His Presidential “Library” Pretty Much Says It All
It’s hard to imagine a more finely tuned machine than the Trump Presidential Library, a glass-walled Miami tower whose video renderings were released by...
NYT Fires Freelancer For Using AI In Review. But What Really Is The Issue...
As a literary critic and scholar, I believe the deeper question isn’t whether or not critics should do more to hide their use of...
Major Years-Long Renovation Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Complete
Despite several previous conservation campaigns, a carefully executed programme of works targeting its roofing, glazing systems, and masonry envelope was necessary. - Dezeen
Why Bach’s Music Is Indestructable
Bach never knew the modern piano or its flattened-out tuning, so any pianist who plays the Well-Tempered Clavier on a Steinway is making a...
Tennessee Library Director Fired Over Refusal To Move Gender-Themed Books
She was fired for her refusal to remove more than 100 books that discuss gender identity or contain violence from the children’s shelves. -...
University Of Syracuse Cuts Almost 100 Programs
In all, 93 of the 460 academic programs at the school will be closed or paused, meaning that no new students will be able to enroll...
Hollywood’s Difficulty In Grappling With What AI Will Do To It
AI isn’t just another flash-in-the-pan techno-bauble, like VR headsets, the “metaverse,” or NFTs. It’s actually revolutionary. The insistence betrays the measure of anxiety one might expect...
Why Being A Writer Is No Longer A Profession
Today, by some estimates, the average freelance journalist is paid around $0.25 to $0.50 per word, and at the highest-paying glossies, rates have hovered...
Compelling Video Games About Managing Stores???
Retro Rewind is the latest in a category called “store simulators”—games that basically create bottled versions of hourly-wage drudgery. Set in the ’90s, the game...
Ben Affleck’s Company (Which Netflix Just Bought) Says It Can Save “Millions” In Production...
The reductions made possible by InterPositive‘s technology would be “substantial” on below-the-line production, “conservatively” reaching at least 10% to 20%, the application said. - Deadline
Trump And The Golden Idol In His Proposed “Library”
There is one recent development upon which we really should all agree — erecting a gold statue of President Trump in the middle of...
You Can’t Sell Famous Stolen Art. So Why Steal It?
The items stolen are clearly valuable. But, as an expert in the governance of criminal markets, I can tell you acquiring the goods is only the...
How The Publishing World Works Systemically
Yes, literature is structured by institutions that serve their own self-interest, but that self-interest requires a lot of other people to give them their labor at...
