Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Do We Calibrate The Use Of AI In Education?
So what does “getting learning right” look like in the age of generative AI? It involves a lot of experimentation and leaning in with...
AI Is Showing Where The Gaps In Education Are
With AI, students can generate code that looks polished and sophisticated in seconds. But the ability to produce a solution has become decoupled from...
The Case Against Streaming
It is not simply that Netflix and co are killing cinema – although, yes, that is a thing that is objectively bad. It is that...
How The Land Art Movement Changed Our Perspective
The closest thing land art has to an origin story is a dusty road trip three of its early protagonists, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt...
Study: Use Of AI Leads To Greater Creativity In Humans
When people were shown AI-generated design suggestions, they spent more time on the task, produced better designs and felt more involved. It was not...
How Manhattan Is Trying To Design Itself Into Better Climate Resilience
Inspired by the vulnerabilities revealed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, ESCR features a series of protective features — walls, earthen berms and sliding doors...
The Heifetz International Music Institute seeks Executive Director.
The next Executive Director will advance the organization’s mission, safeguard its financial and operational strength, and foster an environment in which artistic excellence thrives.
The Florida Orchestra seeks Vice President of Development.
The next Vice President of Development will play a central role in advancing the financial strength and long-term sustainability of The Florida Orchestra.
Director of Philanthropy – Ballet Arizona working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Celebrating its 40th year & launching a new artistic vision under Artistic Director Daniela Cardim, Ballet Arizona is poised for ambitious growth. The organization seeks
Kennedy Center Board Votes To Close For Two Years
The full scope of the renovations is not entirely clear. But Mr. Trump has said that both structural and internal work was needed, noting...
How Did A Tiny Obscure Art School Get A $2M NEH Grant?
The grant was about as large as the school’s annual budget. And like many of the agency’s other recent multimillion-dollar awards, it went to a...
History Of Triumphant Arches: An Empire In Decline
Some of the most famous iterations in ancient Rome and Napoleonic France warn us of the tendency of republics to devolve into autocratic empires. -...
Think You Can Tell If That Song You Like Was Made By AI?
The Afro-soul cover highlights a growing challenge — the difficulty identifying when generative AI has been used in production — and how audiences, platforms...
The Prestige Novel Is Dead
Although the literary novel remains the touchstone for what “elite” cultural status might mean, its former midcentury monopoly on prestige, Brier claims, has been...
How Math And Literature Are Closely Related
Literature and mathematics have these strong connections because mathematics is all about structure and pattern. It's the language we use to describe those things. -...
Study: Autocomplete Changes How People Write
Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI. - Scientific American
That Wallpaper Music That Surrounds Us
Sync, it’s called. Once it was known as library music; sometimes it’s called production music. It’s not really a genre. It’s a category, defined...
How Barnes & Noble Became Popular Again
Barnes & Noble is experiencing a revival. It opened 60 new stores last year and plans to do the same this year. It is reportedly soliciting banks to...
Trump Now Wants To Replace Columns On The Front Of The White House With...
The Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those...
AJ Chronicles: The Biggest Fights about Culture
These weekly essays are meant to connect stories from the week to larger trends and ideas across the arts world. This week we collected 118 stories. Here's what I learned:
Richard Grenell Out At The Kennedy Center
He leaves behind an institution that is drastically changed, and in many ways diminished, from a year ago, when Mr. Trump installed himself as chairman and filled...
Eight Projects By This Year’s Pritzker Prize Winning Architect
Following the news that Smiljan Radić has won this year's delayed Pritzker Architecture Prize, we round up eight projects from the Chilean architect's experimental career. - Dezeen
Why Aren’t Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Selling?
The architect’s passion for combining design and nature meant that many of his residences were built in rural areas. Because of their pedigree, they...
Classical Music Magazine Is Shutting Down
The magazine was sold to Mark Allen by Rhinegold Publishing in December 2018, together with other titles such as Music Teacher, Choir & Organ...
Those Who Resist Super-Popular Culture
I’ve come to call it “hype aversion”: an avoidance of the pop-culture products that seemingly everyone insists I would like. It’s not that I’m...
