Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
World’s Longest Book (21,000 Pages) Is For Sale (But You Can’t Read It)
Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural...
Surprise! Brad Pitt Is A Terrific Visual Artist
Pinch me – I must be dreaming. Brad Pitt is an extremely impressive artist. I certainly didn’t expect to be saying that when I got up...
The Hollywood Sign Is Being Repaired (You Can Watch Online)
Freshening up the 45ft-tall letters will require about 250 gallons of paints and primer, and anyone who wants to watch the paint dry can...
Dying? Bay Area Artists Reject Idea Their Gallery Scene Is Ailing
“I’ve been here almost 32 years. Literally, the story never changes. We have an incredibly rich and vibrant arts scene here, and I...
AI Image Generators Have Already Changed The Visual Art World
Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis....
Study: YouTube’s “Dislike” Button Doesn’t Stop Unwanted Recommendations
Pressing Don’t Recommend Channel would stop only 43 percent of unwanted video recommendations while the Dislike button stopped only 12 percent of recommendations users...
Magic And Illusion Are Doorways To Neuroscience
Arts of illusion are often taken for granted, explained away as a series of clever tricks, but in the sharp and magical transition from...
The World’s Largest Collection Of Totem Poles
The totem poles in Ketchikan represent the ancestral traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. The Ketchikan Museum’s collection at the Totem Heritage...
The Long Lonely Road To Proving A Lucien Freud Is Real
Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity...
What Does Innovation In Music Really Mean?
These groups may indeed be performing the most innovative composers. But what is also emerging is a much more heightened gravitational pull of music...
This Year’s Van Cliburn Competition Got Monster-Size YouTube Views
Using Yunchan’s Rach 3 video for comparison, these numbers put the Van Cliburn competition viewership well above some of the biggest television show premieres in history....
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Evolution
PNB is a vastly different company now than it was in 1972: More than 50% of its dancers self-identify as people of color (up...
Walter Lippman’s 100-Year-Old Book “Public Opinion” Contained Warnings For Today
Our current debates about disinformation and the pernicious effects of social media could be rather more productive if the participants would bother to read...
Study: How To Change Minds And Opinions
The groups with blowhards were less neurally aligned than were those with mediators, the study found. Perhaps more surprising, the mediators drove consensus not...
How Politics Is Driving Book Bans In America
“This is a concerted, organized, well-resourced push at censorship,” said Suzanne Nossel, the chief executive of PEN America. The effort, she said, “is ideologically...
What Would Art Critic Hilton Kramer Have Thought About Today’s Culture?
His take on contemporary culture made him seem antique. “We are still living in the aftermath,” he wrote in 1982, “of the insidious assault...
Reason To Close: Broadway’s “Phantom” Has Been Losing $1 Million/Month
The show has earned $1.30 billion during its impressive Broadway run, according to the Broadway League, and has played an astonishing 13,733 performances with over 19...
Think Your Image Has Been Stolen By AI? Now There’s A Website To Tell...
Any matches in the results mean that the image could have potentially been used to train AI image generators and might still be used...
New AI-Generated Images Flood Stock Photo Websites
The development means there is increased competition for photographers on what were traditionally called photography stock websites, but might be now better described as...
Meet The Toronto Symphony’s New CEO
“I do not look like what the CEO of orchestra is supposed to look like. Whenever people are a bit surprised, it just underscores...
The Ancient Seneca’s Prescription For Navigating Tumult
You want to be happy and well, but your messy circumstances bite and gnaw at you relentlessly, distracting you from the habits of thought...
The Numbers Are In: Seattle Audiences Aren’t Returning To Performances In Great Numbers
Across the board, attendance has not surpassed three-quarters of pre-pandemic levels in the past six months. Between February and July 2022, visitor numbers remained...
Saudi Arabia Is Bulldozing The Ancient City Of Jeddah
Fly into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second and most charming city, and vast empty patches scar the landscape. Most of its southern districts and much...
Good Luck With That: Poland Asks Russia To Return Looted WWII Art
Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings now in a leading Moscow museum that were looted during World War II by the...
Legendary Public Radio Producer Jim Russell, Creator Of “Marketplace,” 76
Russell told Business Media News he envisioned it as a business news show that would appeal to a mass audience, not just executives and investors. The...
