Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Hollywood’s Canadian Production Was Up 27 Percent In 2022
The number of foreign, mostly Hollywood, feature films that shot in Canada jumped from 141 in 2021 to 171 pictures last year, with total...
NYC’s Natural History Museum Adds A Wing For The Natural World
A mega-attraction devoted to the natural world may seem an odd fit for Manhattan, one of the most human-manipulated landscapes on earth. But in...
Washington Post Launches A TV Channel
On May 6, Washington Post Television will go live with continuous coverage of King Charles III’s coronation. - Washington Post
The Ancient Buildings Built To Withstand Earhquakes
The buildings stand free of any mortar or metal, which makes them more capable of shifting and flexing along with torques in the ground....
Will Viewers Even Notice The Writers Are On Strike?
The dramatically changed landscape that inspired the walkout — an industry that’s focus-shifted to streaming content — is also going to make it tougher...
The Essential Role Of Memory In Creativity
Over the past decade, our understanding of memory’s role in creativity has only grown. Researchers have linked false memories and forgetting to creative performance. And earlier this year,...
Art Of Tomorrow: The World’s Problems And The Role Of Art
What about the central question of whether the arts could be a way to confront some of the world’s many challenges? - The New...
Zaha Hadid Architects Say They Are Developing “Most” Of Their Projects With AI
Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI text-to-image generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to come up with design ideas for projects, studio principal Patrik Schumacher has revealed. - Dezeen
The Meaning That’s Lost As Handwriting Fades
"I have never subscribed to the strained idea that the characteristics of one’s handwriting provides a subtle indicator of one’s personality... but I do think there...
Opera About Drone Warfare Clarified After Online Criticism
Anger erupted online, with critics accusing Washington National Opera of serving as a mouthpiece for the defense industry. A think tank that advocates military...
Survey: Audience Shifting To Podcasts From YouTube And Streaming Music
Half of those surveyed said they were spending less time with YouTube in order to spend more time with podcasts. That is twice as...
Post-COVID: New Realities For The Performing Arts
“There is a massive shift there in terms of interests, what millennials consider relevant and find exciting. It will impact more than just what...
The Sheeran Copyright Case: A Threat To All Music
To complete the metaphor, the lawsuit and its implications are the musical version of saying to a painter: You’ll have to pay to use...
Art World Discussion: What’s The Role Of Art In These Uncertain Times?
As artists and the public at large become ever more engaged in tackling world problems, and social media pushes everything to new levels of...
Why TV Writers Are Unhappy
Studios are cutting writing budgets to the bone by hiring fewer people for shorter time periods, often without paying for lower-level writers to be...
This Year’s Tony Nominations: Boldness And Backsliding
The spirit of boldness that marked Broadway’s reopening in the wake of a once-in-a-century pandemic and widespread societal reckonings on equity, diversity and inclusion...
Three Years After His Death, Philosopher Roger Scruton Is More Influential Than Ever
Conferences on Scruton’s work are springing up like mushrooms across the continent. Budapest boasts a chain of Scruton cafes that hold regular discussions of his...
Book Banning: Et Tu, Canada?
A push that began last summer to remove a few children's sexual education books from the southern Manitoba library system has since bubbled up into...
Regina Symphony Ponders Its Place Post-COVID As Audiences Are Slow To Rebound
"But in many places, the idea of the regularity and the consistency of attendance and participation in orchestral activities has been broken." - CBC
La Scala To The World: Let The Streaming Begin
The platform is part of a wider effort to modernize La Scala’s infrastructure, including an extensive educational outreach program using the technology and plans...
Grantmaking In The Arts Must Change
Artists know best what they need to advance their art and to thrive — hire artists as grantmakers and advisors. Support organizations that are...
The Case For Being Able To See Inside AI Algorithms
If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work. For example, in health care, you need to...
Watch As A Chatbot Learns To Write Like Shakespeare
To show you what this process looks like, we trained six tiny language models starting from scratch. We’ve picked one trained on the complete...
The Doll Family That Mysteriously Took Up Residence In A Mailbox
“Some people initially thought that I had planted the dolls myself, but that is definitely not the case. All I did was provide a...
Culture Wars Come To The High School Musical
“You see politicians and officials enacting rules and laws which are incredibly onerous and designed to enforce a very narrow view of what students...
