Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Many Are Looking To Cash In On Making NFTs Of Traditional Art
Museums, collectors, artist estates and others are "exploring NFTs of traditional art to build support, protect and conserve work, and bring in a new...
We’ve Made Idols Of Tech Innovators. We Were Wrong
Our nation once idolized astronauts and civil-rights leaders who inspired hope and empathy. Now it worships tech innovators who generate billions and move financial...
The New Arts Censorship
‘Art is about allowing people not to have limits on their imaginations. So if audiences are starting to look for something political in the...
That Old Chestnut: The Meaning Of Life
Analytic philosophers avoided the subject of meaning in life till relatively recently. The standard explanation is that they associated it with the meaning of life question...
OpenAI Releases Universal Translator That Translates Any Language To English
With the proper setup, Whisper could easily be used to transcribe interviews, podcasts, and potentially translate podcasts produced in non-English languages to English on...
First Look Inside Paul Allen’s Billion-Dollar Art Collection
While the sale was announced in August, now, for the first time, the auction house has begun to divulge what those treasures are. - The New...
Disney Heiress’ New Documentary Exposes Deplorable Theme Park Working Conditions
One out of every 10 full-time workers was homeless at some point in the previous two years, and two-thirds didn’t have enough money to...
The Scandalous Origins Of The Family Theme Park
London's Pleasure Gardens transformed the concept of leisure. Offering an environment in which societal norms could be cast aside, if only for a few...
Trying To Understand Cravings
If excessively strong cravings were simply the result of drugs corrupting the reward systems in the brain, they should be produced across individuals who...
The Price Of Child Stardom (And What It Says About Us)
It shouldn’t shock us that many of them had uncomfortable and even traumatic experiences. Memoirs by Sarah Polley and Jennette McCurd force us to confront why we...
New Official Space Force Song Is… Really… (Well, Take A Listen And Decide)
After the Space Force released the song and a “behind the music” video on Tuesday, some public reactions were scathing. - The New York...
Is Broadway Really Changing?
The number of people of color who were in this past season was just staggering to me. But that’s not the question. The question...
Books As Weapons
Books carry knowledge, and knowledge is power, which makes books a threat to authorities – governments and self-appointed leaders alike – who want to...
How London’s Southbank Is Trying To Change The Classical Music Experience
The changes he goes on to detail might seem like small tweaks to a potential concert-goer but are a bigger deal in a juggernaut...
What Your Texting Etiquette Says About You
It’s ironic. Texting was meant to make communication easier, but it can be much harder to discern someone’s tone over text, especially with inflections...
How Social Media Has Rewired Our Interactions
Wading through digital sewage is the upfront cost of using these sites. Less obviously, we pay with our attention and creativity, freely providing the...
Picture Giant Getty Images Bans AI-Generated Images
"There are real concerns with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and unaddressed rights issues with respect to the imagery, the...
AI-Created Art Is Already Changing Art
“It's really easy to look at something from far away and say it's scary. When people actually use it, the attitudes are very different....
Jean-Luc Godard’s Singular Place In The Movies
Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the...
Why Do Some Art Heists Capture Our Imagination?
Art either captivates the public or it doesn’t, and the same, it would seem, is true of art heists. Some enthrall us with their...
Reinventing Long Wharf Theatre: Brave New World?
The theatre’s leadership insists that they’re not setting out to create a new theatre from scratch, but rather to build on Long Wharf’s legacy....
The Future Of American Regional Theatre: Out Of Buildings?
Earlier this year, we came to a decision that was years in the making: to leave our current home of 57 years and venture...
AI Can Impersonate Voices And The Deepfakes Are Hard To Spot
Deepfakes have brought with them a new level of uncertainty around digital media. To detect deepfakes, many researchers have turned to analyzing visual artifacts –...
Why Business As Usual May Kill Your Non-Profit
Did it become “comfortable” when leaders believed that the path of least resistance in business settings — kowtow to those to whom you report...
After 33 Years, Carl St. Clair To Step Down From Pacific Symphony
St.Clair, who turned 70 in June, requested that the symphony’s board begin plans for succession that assured continuity of leadership. - Voice of Orange...
