Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Disney AI Can Now “De-Age” Actors
FRAN uses this information to come up with a prediction about which areas of a real person’s face would age and how and then...
How Books Became An Enduring Holiday Gift
“When you change from giving gifts to serfs or beggars to your kids and your spouse, you can’t just give them the stuff you...
The Artist Who Turned Limitations Into Assets
Miguel Tomasín's distinctive artistic vision comes from his family, fellow musicians and friends said, from having been born with Down syndrome. His story shows...
Oxford English Dictionary’s Word Of The Year is What???
“Goblin mode” — a slang term referring to “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way...
The Rise Of Celebrity Broadway Producers
The presence of famous folks in the credits for Broadway productions isn’t exactly new, but it does seem to be proliferating. - The Stage
How Cover Songs Work On The Brain
The cover plays an important role in our contemporary understanding of music, so it is worth thinking about what exactly a cover is. - Psyche
It’s Getting Much Harder To Define What A City Is
The question of where to draw the line between what is and what is not a city—not to mention where one ends and another...
Canada’s National Broadcaster Rebrands
It’s a CBC mandate to find creators they haven’t spoken with before and to encourage those stories to be told through a variety of...
This Year Was A Huge Breakthrough For Artificial Intelligence
This year, we’ve seen a flurry of AI products that seem to do precisely what the Oxford researchers considered nearly impossible: mimic creativity. Language-learning...
Are Our Brains Quantum Computers?
Even though we have a good understanding of where consciousness originates — essentially via neurons sending signals to each other — scientists still aren't...
Have America’s Cities Entered A “Doom Loop”?
Scholars are increasingly voicing concern that the shift to working from home, spurred by the Covid pandemic, will bring the three-decade renaissance of major...
New “Democracy’s Library” Aims To Bring Research To The Masses
Democratic governments, at all levels, spend billions of dollars publishing reports, manuals, books, videos so that all can read and learn. That is the...
The Unstoppable Tania Leon
León says she never planned to become a composer, much less one who earned a Pulitzer Prize. - NPR
Woman Artist Finally Gets Old Master Cred
After her death in 1689 in Brussels, Michaelina Wautier largely became a footnote in art history, occasionally drawing a mention here or there. Much...
It’s Worth Reviving The Fading Art Of Writing Longhand
I’m old enough to remember writing by hand when it was the only choice. Then I fell to the seductions of these newfangled things...
Italian Government Fights Over Museum Policy: Free Museums?
During the election campaign Giorgia Meloni, defined culture as a “cardinal strategic point”, noting that the country’s arts industry generates roughly €85bn annually. The...
Time To Reconsider David Mamet?
Since Mamet’s 2008 essay in The Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” he has been subject to a towering wave of enmity from the...
Twenty-Five Years Ago The YBA’s Took The Art World By Storm. Here’s Where They...
The YBAs are now all middle-aged. Hirst is 57, Emin 59, the Chapmans 56 and 60 respectively, and the years have been kind to...
Is The BBC “Dumbing Down” To Appeal To Lower Income Viewers?
The broadcaster also said it would try to attract viewers from lower socio-economic groups by making sports documentaries and crime shows, after criticism from Ofcom that...
Internet Culture Now Is Mainstream Culture
Boundaries between “traditional” culture and online culture have been breaking down. Television audiences have shrunk. Newspaper circulations are in terminal decline. Meanwhile, people have been...
Democrats New House Leader Has Been Congressional Champion Of Music
Hakeem Jeffries co-sponsored the Music Modernization Act, the most important copyright law passed in decades, as well as the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act...
Phillips Collection Gets A New Director
He replaces Dorothy Kosinski, who led the Phillips since 2008, increased endowment from $18 million to $100 million, expanded art holdings from 2,000 to...
Why Is Theatre Dealing With (Or Not) Climate Change The Way It Is?
“Perhaps the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis,” observed Bayo Akomolafe. Producers can’t decide how climate change should be...
Why Is TikTok Obsessed With “Alvin And The Chipmunks” Music
The whole music culture, it seems, is now under the sway of a chipmunk aesthetic. This, to my way of thinking, is even more foreboding...
When Did Being “Clever” Become A Bad Thing?
Is there really something wrong with being clever? Even if it can get on our nerves sometimes, its associations remain overwhelmingly positive: Cleverness is...
