Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Israeli Organization Threatens Suit Against Canadian Museum for Human Rights Exhibit
A prominent Israeli legal organization is threatening legal action against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba,...
Always On: Pretty Much Everything We Do Now Is Being Recorded
The next time you conduct a delicate bit of office diplomacy or share a romantic or financial secret with a friend over drinks, a...
Boston’s Investment In The Arts Is Deflating
The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture more than doubled its operating budget and staff, and the city earmarked $26.2 million from the American...
Can Any Real Reform Come Out Of The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Case?
With Ticketmaster signaling its intent to contest the outcome aggressively and drag out the litigation, any meaningful accountability may arrive only in the distant...
Democrats Slam Live Nation/Ticketmaster “Sweetheart Deal”
Many of the lawmakers advocated on Monday for a Ticketmaster breakup. Raskin, for example, stated that Live Nation’s monopoly is so strong that artists...
Saint Louis Art Museum Chief Exhibitions and Collections Officer
Saint Louis Art Museum seeks Chief Exhibitions and Collections Officer. Salary range is between $210,000 and $240,000. Please visit the link for full job description.
The Americanization Of Tourism
We’re selling vibes, textures. A sunset on the hills in Chianti, riding a bike on an island in Sicily. Imagine us discussing it in...
Pompidou And Hong Kong’s M+ Strike A Five-Year Deal To Exchange Art
The major exhibition featuring collections from both institutions will be staged first in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, after its five-year renovation, around 2029...
Cannes Wrestles With AI
The 79th Cannes may go down as the time the world’s grandest film festival for the first time wrestled with the onset of AI...
Is Your Name Emily? Free Drinks For You!
Showcase Cinemas has just announced that if anyone called Emily buys a ticket to see the film Finding Emily this weekend, they will receive a...
Judge Delays Approval Of Anthropic Authors Settlement
Calling out lawyers for requesting more than $320 million in legal fees when each author only expects a $3,000 payout, some objectors asked the...
NPR Newsroom Reorganizes, Offers Buyouts
NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher says the network has to fill a gap of $8 million in its $300-million annual budget because of...
The Slop Before The AI Slop
In 1962, a programmer at Librascope, a California-based defense contractor, announced that “a computer can be programmed to write meaningful and relevant sentences in...
Will Paint For Food?
“If my art isn’t in your budget right now, I’ll accept the following as payment…” the viral posts on Instagram and TikTok read. The...
UK Music Venues Have Started Giving Their Touring Musicians Places To Stay
A growing number of UK music venues are attempting a simple but potentially transformative fix: giving bands somewhere to sleep. - The Guardian
Why Celebrities Are Trademarking Themselves
So why are celebrities suddenly registering trademarks in a bid to protect their identity? The answer, unsurprisingly, lies with generative artificial intelligence (AI). -...
Peter Gelb No Longer Considering Retiring From The Met
“I should leave when I cannot do the job properly or when the board doesn’t want me to be here. I’m a workaholic, I’ve...
How AI Has Taken Over College Education
During the exam, students were pulling out phones and taking photographs of the test to submit to LLMs before copying down machine-written responses into...
France’s Top TV Production House Says It Will Blacklist Artists Who Protest Billionaire
The head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, has said the group will no longer work with hundreds of cinema figures who signed a...
How AI Has Taken Over My College Education At Stanford
Stanford has always been a haven for aspiring techies, but recent events have taken the school into uncharted territory. A.I. is everything. We talk...
How Do We Get Big Tech Interested In The Arts?
So what can motivate tech barons to give money to opera? How do we convince them that, with their help, they can be a...
The Artists Using San Francisco As A Canvas For Laser Shows
The San Francisco sky was lit Friday night with dozens of colored lasers beaming from the Transamerica Pyramid toward Coit Tower and One Sansome...
Humanities Make A Comeback As AI Gobbles Up Tech Jobs
As it turns out, tech jobs may be drying up after years of students rushing to computer science. Who needs to code? AI does...
And Now… The World’s First AI Museum
The “living museum” will present a continuously evolving immersive, audiovisual experience based on millions of images, sounds and scents from nature. As an indication...
The Gamification Of Homework
Prodigy is among a bevy of gamified tools that have gained a foothold in classrooms across the country by promising to make learning fun....
