Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Belgium’s Gorgeous New Calatrava Train Station
Conceptualised by Calatrava as a "monumental bridge", its volume traverses a series of 350-metre-long platforms and bus stops that extend outwards from the gallery's underside. -...
Wexner Center Director Resigns, Effective Immediately
Gaëtane Verna inherited a Wexner facing financial turmoil worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic. The center’s fiscal health and workplace culture appeared to deteriorate further...
This San Francisco Museum Decided To Be Nomadic
The museum will henceforth be presenting exhibitions in new spaces each cycle. The intent behind this is both to pair artistic projects with architecturally...
Why We’re Having Difficulty Understanding AI
Cognitivism, which has permeated society—as evidenced by the omnipresence of the terms “cognitive” and “cognition”—has perpetuated a traditional view of thought and intelligence as...
A Prominent Arts College Offers An AI Major. There’s Pushback
According to SCAD, the Applied AI program will prepare students for professions including AI product developer, AI design strategist, AI story engineer, autonomous agent...
Lebrecht: Two Nominations For 21st Century Great Composer Status
In an increasingly authoritarian age, we are suspicious of new leaders; when posterity squints back at us it will have to fumble in the...
Museum Employees Are Unhappy. Is It Getting Better?
Fifty-four percent of museum employees have considered quitting their jobs in the last five years, and more than one-quarter of full-time workers earn salaries...
What We’re Losing In A Post-Literate Culture
By now we’ve moved beyond a post-literature culture into what some are calling a post-literate age, taking us back several thousand years to communication...
A Dramatic Decline In Thinking?
If we consider literacy not as the ability to parse simple sentences but as the capacity to comprehend and enjoy complex texts, and ultimately...
New JFK Terminal Will Be Full Of A-List Art
The swish new $9.5 billion terminal currently in the works at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Port Authority of New York...
Chicago’s Grant Park Music CEO Is Stepping Down After Transforming The Festival
Paul Winberg is credited with tripling the festival’s annual contributions, bolstering its administrative infrastructure and overseeing a key change in artistic leadership last year....
What Does The Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Rebrand Signal?
The change may seem cosmetic, but as a marketing scholar at Temple University whose research focuses on branding and digital marketing strategy, I know that in...
Complexity: How Do You Measure AI?
AI measurement is a new field, and everything is still under contention—not just how we test but what we should be testing for. - The...
How We Know What We Know: What Is Common Knowledge?
Common knowledge — awareness of mutual understanding — can explain the emergence of social-media shaming mobs, academic cancel culture and revolutions that seem to erupt...
1000 Artifacts Stolen From Oakland Museum In Early Morning Heist
Stolen items include Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks. - Los Angeles Times
LACMA Employees Unionize
Employees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Wednesday that they are forming a union, LACMA United, representing more than 300 workers...
Our Post-Reading Generation
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft...
Listening To Music On Headphones Has Disrupted Our Culture
The power of music has long been its ability to soundtrack a generation—to evoke emotion, as well as summon a specific time and place. Headphone...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images
Their whole lives, they had heard people talk about picturing, and imagining, and counting sheep, and visualizing beaches, and seeing in the mind’s eye,...
Art In The Time Of AI: Just What Does “Owning” Art Mean?
Archetypes belong to everyone: that’s why art galleries and libraries and arts councils receive public funding; that’s why Top 40 radio plays a Friday-morning...
Cult Film Case Study: Rocky Horror Picture Show
A cult film is born through ritualistic traditions of audience attendance that must occur in a public, social screening setting like a movie theatre....
TS Eliot And The Impression Of Having Read Everything
Eliot was not only a prolific, but also a powerful prose writer. Impressively, he emerges even in the earliest of this work as if...
Judge Rules Authors’ Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Can Proceed
In issuing his ruling, Judge Stein compared George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones to summaries of the book created by ChatGPT. The judge wrote that a...
What Hollywood Gets Consistently Wrong When It Depicts Broadway Genius
Artistry is what the ’40s biopics get most wrong. Not just the facts, though the depictions of composition, collaboration and show-making are boldly inaccurate....
A Piece Of Broadway History Disappears: The Cast Change Inserts In Programs
“I think the understudies, the swings, the standbys and the alternates do so much work, with so little recognition, so much of the time...
