Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Are Secret Talks To Return Parthenon Marbles Making Progress?
Even as those disclosures have flowered into optimism that real progress will soon be made, both sides have made it clear that no deal...
Why No One Will Win In The HarperCollins Strike
Some smaller independent publishers—mostly outside of New York City—are concerned that the public nature of the strike, with wage demands made public, is raising...
AI Can Help Preserve Dying Languages. But What’s The Cost?
StoryWeaver can bring more languages into conversation with one another—but the tech is still new, and it depends on data that only speakers of...
After 32 Years, Cabrillo Festival Director To Step Down
The festival’s powerful streak of commissioning new music — a roster of more than 50 pieces both large and small since 2006 — is...
Saving Indigenous Languages In Montana
The job is not easy. Depending on how you count, there are about a dozen Indigenous languages in our state, and every one of...
MTT And Barenboim: Twilight Of The Old Guard
The recent struggles and remarkable late-career concerts of these two men will always mark for me the passing from the scene of their generation...
Sweden Proposes To Do Away With Permits To Dance
The proposal made Thursday means that venues no longer would need a license to organize dances. Instead, as a general rule, they would only...
Study: Scientific Breakthroughs Are Slowing Down. Why?
The new finding of Mr. Park and his colleagues suggests that investments in science are caught in a spiral of diminishing returns and that...
I’m An Author. My Book Is Being Published At HarperCollins. I’m Deeply Conflicted
I’ve loved my publishing experience with HarperCollins. Everyone I’ve worked with has been a smart adviser and a fierce advocate for a slightly weird...
Movie Theatres Are Forever Changed
This year's box office will tell us how much theaters must go big -- and, paradoxically, shrink down -- to make it through to...
Do We All Live In A Computer Simulation?
In recent years the idea that our universe, including ourselves and all of our innermost thoughts, is a computer simulation, running on a thinking...
Prose Style And What’s Good: Stripped And Spare Or Ornate?
Every great national prose, in just about any tongue, reaches its high meridian only by way of a prolonged and constant negotiation of just...
Glenn Lowry: Cultural Institutions On The New Cultural/Political Landscape
“We now know that our world as we thought we understood it is far more fragile... wars that seemed inconceivable now happened, we’ve...
Instagram’s Secret Sauce Is Algorithmic Curation. Can It Beat A Human Curator?
Since November 2022, organizers have uploaded images from the Met’s collection of public domain works to the @thealgorithmicpedestal account on Instagram. Whichever posts the platform’s algorithm...
The Defacing Of A World Heritage Site – Graffiti, Crime, Fear…
The anti-government protests that exploded in late 2019 hit the city hard. Shops were looted, windows smashed and walls were covered in graffiti. Some of the...
The Long Odessey Of Making “Tar”
“Tár” not only got made and released—a fact that seemed to confound its writer-director—but has inspired vigorous discussion, whether about its insights into sexual abuse and...
The Complicated Path Of Criticism
By the first decades of the twentieth century, national organizations had established standards for the credentialling of lawyers, doctors, and nurses. The professionalization of...
Artists Sue AI Art Generator Companies
The artists taking action—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz—"seek to end this blatant and enormous infringement of their rights before their professions are eliminated by a...
The War On AI Art Is Dumb
We are used to hearing such petulant ressentiment, especially in connection with the 20th-century avant-garde in the figurative arts: “I could have entered a...
Scientist Sues US Copyright Office To Grant Copyright To His AI-Generated Art
Stephen Thaler’s motion argues that the work in question “satisfies the requirements set forth in the Copyright Act”—that because Thaler “invested and owns the...
What Made Jeff Beck A Great Guitarist
He was a guitarist’s guitarist who seemed to be the humble protagonist at the centre of a plethora of seminal moments in pop history....
UK Vinyl Record Presser To Double Production To Meet Demand
Press On Vinyl opened in Middlesbrough in early-2022 with the aim of producing 50,000 records a month. - BBC
Banff Centre Appoints New President
The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity announced that Chris Lorway would be appointed to the role of President and CEO of Banff Centre....
Gina Lollobrigida, 95
“In the immediate period after the war and throughout the 1950s there was one face that represented Italian beauty in the eyes of the...
Hilary And Bill Write Novels. But How Much Of Them?
Using a technique called “stylometry”, it can be established that James Patterson probably wrote most of The President is Missing. Stylometry uses computers to...
