Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Richard Longo On Being An American Artist
He became so ubiquitous that, as he put it in Interview magazine last year, “I was one of the artists that was blamed for the...
AI In Education: We’re Skeptical
Every time we layer another technology on, it gets harder and harder for the student to understand what they are responsible for and what...
When Baryshnikov Found Balanchine
But perhaps the most important thing these two artists had in common was the fact that they each left the Soviet Union in search...
Boston Public Library To Enhance Access To Its Archives Using AI
Currently, members of the public who want to access these documents must show up in person. The project will enhance the metadata of each...
Why Are So Many New York Galleries Closing?
“It’s a mystery how things can be this difficult for an industry that works on such large margins—up to 50 percent for most galleries,...
Can’t Get Enough? Portland OR Plans Two Large Venues For Broadway Musicals
The evolving plan to build two Portland-owned performing arts centers capable of staging touring Broadway shows has cleared two early hurdles. - Oregon Arts...
Arts Patron Christophe de Menil, 92
For two decades, Ms. de Menil was a costume designer for the avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson, who died on July 31. An art collector herself,...
Wikipedia Loses Challenge To New Online Age Verification Law
Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its...
The Bubble Art Taking The Edinburgh Fringe By Storm
Performers are delighting crowds with bubble blowing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, using a mixture of dish soap, water and lube — and occasional...
Data: Canada’s Arts Industry Economy Has Surpassed Pre-Pandemic Levels
Today’s analysis indicates that the performing arts have surpassed pre-pandemic levels of revenues and impact on GDP (i.e., the levels in 2019), neither of...
Los Angeles As A Literary Genre
Writers in Los Angeles? To the East Coast, such a notion was ridiculous. And yet, I was to discover, there was a freedom in...
Portland Maine Passes Moratorium On Proposed New Live Nation Venue After Musician Protests
Dozens of local musicians and venue operators said the city should take more time to evaluate whether it should bring Live Nation, which is...
Will AI Take Away Your Creative Job? We Don’t Think So
"We believe creative professionals can harness new technologies while still upholding their foundational creative and ethical principles." - The Conversation
Is Art Nouveau Ready For A Comeback In The Age Of AI?
More than a century on, as artificial intelligence offers a fresh tech challenge to humanity, a timely spot of revisionism appears to be taking...
Since Assisted Death Has Been Legal In Canada, More And More Canadians Are Choosing...
MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for...
Why Did The Whitney Suddenly Cancel Its Independent Study Program?
As democratic values in the United States erode at an accelerated pace, acts of silencing and erasure at artistic and academic institutions — think...
Wikipedia’s Huge AI Slop Problem
With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and...
UK’s New Online Age-Verification Law Is Causing Massive Censorship
While the law and others like it claim to be narrowly focused on pornographic content and material that promotes suicide, self-harm, eating disorders or...
What Happens When Ventriloquists Gather
Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky. Side by side by side, we stood near the entrance of the Vent...
Report: Trump’s Kennedy Center Boss Is Largely AWOL From The Job
Ric Grenell, a former Trump ambassador to Germany and longtime Republican attack dog, is “only occasionally at the Kennedy Center,” a source told CBS News....
Anthropic Argues In Its Copyright Appeal Case That Settlement Would Put It Out Of...
As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class...
If Cinema Is Dying, There’s Still Plenty To Say
Its infirmity has a number of culprits: superhero box office dominance, short-form videos eroding attention spans, streaming services hollowing out theatrical exhibition. - The Walrus
Public Media’s Slow Motion Crisis
For dozens of stations that depend heavily on federal dollars, a slow-motion crisis is now unfolding; many are already downsizing and cutting programming, and...
How Hollywood Is Pivoting To Conservative Audiences
The red-state audience that Hollywood is chasing isn’t a monolith, and there’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly...
The Individualist Trap: Hard To Believe In The Future
If you have a world in which everyone is encouraged to be a total individualist, they tend to get trapped in that mindset. It’s...
