Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Risks And Creative Rewards Of Loneliness
The lonely are at substantially elevated risk for heart disease, stroke, obesity, addiction, and dementia; being lonely increases your overall risk of premature death...
The College Essays ChatGPT Wrote For Me To Submit To The Ivies
"I used several free tools to generate short essays for some Ivy League applications. The A.I. chatbots’ answers have been edited for brevity and...
Seattle Arts Organizations Face Diminished Demand
According to the survey, overall ticket sales are still well below pre-pandemic levels: down 23% across various art forms and venues. People also tend...
The New Doom Counter-Culture
Where psychedelic experience was at the heart of the old counter culture, Bayesian reasoning seems to be at the heart of this counter culture....
How Alexei Ratmansky Became One Of The Most In-Demand Choreographers
Because he makes ballets so quickly and in little bits, only at the very end of the process does it all come together. Sometimes...
In A City Of Monuments, How To Decolonize The Landscape
How will cities grapple with the more difficult question of what to do with fraught landmarks that are more immovable than those statues—museums, train...
AI Readers Of Audio Books Are Here. There Are Some Issues…
If the listener is wholly unaware that the narrator is digital, this raises some of the many ethical questions (such as that of consent)...
Battling AI’s Fight Over Whether Painting Is A Raphael
Both studies used state-of-the art AI technology. Months after one study proclaimed that the so-called de Brécy Tondo, currently on display at Bradford council’s Cartwright Hall...
Will AI Unlock Human Creativity For Millions?
"I think we’re at a moment with the development of AI where we have ways to provide support, encouragement, affirmation, coaching and advice. We’ve...
We’re Listening To More Sad Music. Why?
We have an odd situation. The slow tune is no longer dreamy music for couples, but sad, lonely music for the isolated and depressed....
Survey: Half Of Professional UK Musicians Earn Less Than £14,000
The census finds that despite high levels of education and training among professional musicians – 70% have a degree or higher, and 50% have...
Is The South Dakota Symphony The Future Of Classical Music?
South Dakota’s may plausibly be considered the most genuinely innovative, most inspirationally forward-looking professional orchestra in the United States. It is also the happiest...
Caught Between Two Worlds: Writers, Actors Strikes Looking For A Model That Fits The...
"That structure was created at the last big strike in 1960. The business has no resemblance to that anymore. When you cut down the...
Politics Intruding – More And More, Art Is Running Afoul Of Politics
The cycle of outcry, removal and reflection seems to be repeating itself more frequently. Proponents of artistic freedom say the current political climate has...
Disney, Charter Sign Deal And ESPN Returns To Cable
The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even...
AI Art Piece Wins Big Competition. Problem – It Can’t Be Copyrighted
The artwork was created using Midjourney, a platform that features in our pick of the best AI art generators. The judges apparently didn't realise that...
Curators Test To See If AI Can Curate And Organize A Show. Here’s What...
“We naïvely thought it would be as easy as plugging in a couple prompts,” Price recalled, explaining why curators at the North Carolina university...
The Sad Real Reason Apple Bought Tiny BIS, The Classical Label
Apple Music is now eight years old, but there’s no indication that the business is profitable. They need strategies to reduce costs, and substituting cheap...
Russia Is Destroying Ukrainian Heritage Sites. How Can It Still Be In Unesco?
Russia, a Unesco member, has a delegation in Riyadh because it is on the World Heritage Committee. This is a travesty. For its deliberate...
Naomi/Naomi: The People Who’ve Gone Off The Deep End
These are the people who over roughly the last five years have gone off the deep end, as it were. “Almost everyone I talk to...
Fonts: An Art You Probably Haven’t Given Much Thought To
Every font you see — on your computer screen, a street sign, a T-shirt, or your car’s dashboard — has been crafted by a...
Persuadable: The Art Of Making Your Case
“There’s a huge difference between hearing and listening. You have to understand the person you’re negotiating with without judgment, whatever your personal values might...
‘N Sync: Dance And The Communication Between Bodies
In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show how the strength of synchronisation in a network depends on the structure...
The Mastermind Teacher Behind Finnish Conductors
Think of major Finnish conductors working around the world today — there are a disproportionate number of them — and chances are they studied...
Norwegian Man Out For A Walk Finds Ancient Trove Of Gold
The cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings. The jewels, which...
