Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Getty Revives Collaborative Southern-California-Defining Pacific Standard Time Project
PST, as it is known, began in 2011 with the theme of Southern California art history and was reprised in 2017 to focus on Latino and Latin...
European Movie Box Office Was Up 70 Percent In 2022
Gross box office receipts across the European Union and the U.K. were up 70 percent in 2022 to $5.5 billion (€5.07 billion), with an...
Nashville Is A Creative City. It Needs Investment
Today, as costs of living soar and working-class artists still wrestle with the remnants of the pandemic, the creative culture that has been our...
Why AI Will Never Compete With Human Creativity
Quality in art is an emergent property: it arises in the doing, in a dialogic dance between the artist and the work. As the...
Science Journals Are Being Overwhelmed By Fake Papers
Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying...
Shazam App Now Works With Classical Music, Identifying What You’re Listening To
Users can press the Shazam button to identify a classical music song or search for music. Then, tapping the menu icon on the track...
Commencement Speaker Cancels Amid Investigation At Cleveland Institute Of Music
Anne Midgette, the former longtime classical music critic at the Washington Post, declined an honorary doctorate from the higher education institution and withdrew as keynote...
Disney Surprise: Disney+ Loses 4 Million Subscribers
The flagship Disney+ service also lost 4 million paid subscribers during the quarter—its biggest drop ever and a shock to analysts who expected the...
“Cinderella” Dies: For The First Time In 43 Years, Andrew Lloyd Webber Doesn’t Have...
"Cinderella" was greeted on Broadway by hostile reviews, garnered zero Tony nominations and struggled at the box office. Last week it played to houses that...
Spotify Removes Tens Of Thousands Of Songs Created By AI
Spotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of...
The Prescient Artist: Nam June Paik
Paik once said, “It’s an artist’s job to think about the future.” This compelling film underscores why Paik should be considered the progenitor of...
Paramount Network Cuts 25 Percent Of Workforce
To be sure, Paramount is hardly alone in its bloodletting. Warner Bros. Discovery, for instance, completed a series of layoffs as well as a...
Reality Is Shifting. We Need To Rethink Authenticity
With text, image, audio, and video all becoming easier for anyone to produce through new generative AI tools, I believe people are going to...
How Dance Is Adjusting To New Post-COVID Norms
During the past three years, we’ve caught glimpses of healthier ways to conduct business, produce more inclusive events and better support artists. Right now...
Of Course Ed Sheeran Won His Case. But AI Is A Whole New Ballgame...
For as long as there has been music, there has been the practice of “contrafact,” the use of another song’s chord progression to create...
Breaking Boundaries: Tyshawn Sorey
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, Sorey is a musical universalist who has little use for categories and labels. He feels they are reductive and irrelevant...
Physical Books Have Reached That Awkward Stage
Kindle is to literature what Instagram or TikTok are to visual images, or Spotify to music. They have their uses, but it would be absurd for the British Library,...
When You Have All Of Classical Music In Your Ear: Too Easy, Too Good?
"I am not resistant to progress, not a Luddite, not an anti-vaxxer. But putting the whole of classical music onto a device that fits...
What An AI-Created Novel Looks Like
Quite quickly, I figured out that if you want an AI to imitate Raymond Chandler, the last thing you should do is ask it...
PS1 Names New Director
Connie Butler, currently chief curator at the Hammer, is to assume her new position at the museum in Long Island City, Queens, on Sept....
Why The Writers’ Strike Is The “Netflix Strike”
In the industry, some are dubbing this year’s labor action “the Netflix strike. Netflix in a lot of ways has upended the business model,...
Archaeologists Discover What They’re Calling An Ancient “Arabian Stonehenge” In Oman
The trilith was discovered at the Zufar site and dates back 2,000 years. Triliths are made up of three flat standing stones 50 to...
My Color Isn’t Your Color: How We Perceive It
For a long time, people believed that colours were objective, physical properties of objects or of the light that bounced off them. But this...
How To Label A Deepfake? Technology Is Working On That
As creators work to develop more detailed frameworks for deepfake and AI disclosure, disciplines and modes like accessibility theory, interactive storytelling, TikTok, footnoting practices,...
Silk Road Project Gets A New Executive Director
One of the major projects Ben Hartley will take on as executive director is the first national tour of “American Railroad." The multimodal project...
