Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Claim: Elimination Of Government Funding To Rural Public Broadcasting Will Push Stations Left
Instead of toppling our radio towers, the funding cut is just likely to make them lean further left. Was that the White House’s and...
Anthropic Settles Class Action Copyright Suit Brought By Authors
Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI...
AI Music Generator Suno Lays Out Its Defense
"No Suno output contains anything like a ‘sample’ from a recording in the training set, so no Suno output can infringe the rights in...
Giles Havergal, 87, Longtime Artistic Director Of Glasgow Citizens Theatre
Havergal, with his co-directors, the designer Philip Prowse and the playwright and translator Robert David MacDonald, ran the beautiful jewel of a Victorian theatre on...
YouTube’s Sneaky AI Processing
“They’re training us, the audience, to get used to the AI look and eventually view it as normal.” - The Atlantic
Rethinking The US Art Market
In the space of just a few weeks, four prominent U.S. galleries announced they would cease operations in their current forms. - Artsy
Egypt Changes The Visitor Experience Around The Pyramids
In April, the government announced the pilot launch of the pyramids area development project, leading to changes at the world’s most famous archaeological site. -...
The Secret To Teaching Students To Read?
After a few Fridays, I noticed that one of the most inveterate nonreaders was not only listening, but also looking at his book, even...
How CPB Budget Cut Has Impacted Rural Public Broadcasting
Several station managers across Alaska said they worried their station would end up with nothing more than an antenna to rebroadcast content created in...
Why Is The University Of Chicago Taking A Step Back From Humanities?
The move to scale back humanities doctoral programs is either a prudent acknowledgment of the cratered job market for tenure-track professorships... or it is a cynical...
Social Media Pulls Out Of Mississippi Over Age Verification Law
The company says that compliance with Mississippi’s law—which would require identifying and tracking all users under 18, in addition to asking every user for...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Addresses Leaks
Particularly problematic are the flat roofs and terraces that make Fallingwater so indelible — and provide the perfect place for water to pool. - Washington...
Is Edinburgh Fringe Being Compromised By Rising Costs
Fringe has long since eclipsed the original festival it was founded alongside. It typically sells upwards of 2.5 million tickets a year. But 80 years on,...
How To Talk (And Creatively Solve Problems) With A Chatbot
ChatGPT, as ever, was upbeat, inexhaustible, and, crucially, unfazed by failure. It made suggestions. It asked its own questions. Some avenues were promising; others...
Why Pittsburgh’s Three Largest Theatres Need To Merge
If the merger proceeds and is successful, it could become a national model for regional theater companies in other cities and states around the...
In Defense Of Peter Gelb
Mr. Gelb undermined his focus on new works with a comically misguided guest essay for The New York Times that managed to antagonize every remaining...
Broadway Theatres Oppose Proposed Casino For Times Square
Owners of 24 Broadway Theaters are taking their opposition to a new Times Square casino right to theaters goers by stuffing a pamphlet into copies of...
Can We Please Reframe What An AI World Will Mean To Us?
Rather than asking AI to hurl itself over the abyss while hoping for the best, we should instead use AI’s extraordinary and improving capabilities...
How AI Is Coming To Own Culture
Algorithmic culture taps into the casual randomness with which we apportion our care; it takes advantage of the fact that what we bump into...
NEA Cancels Creative Writing Fellowships
On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying...
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Over the years, “critically acclaimed” came to function as a euphemism for music that was semipopular, or maybe just unpopular. - The New Yorker
Behind What Looks Like AI Creativity
For years, researchers have wondered: If the models are just reassembling, then how does novelty come into the picture? It’s like reassembling your shredded...
Harvard Makes Budget Cuts In Humanities Programs
Harvard’s Arts and Humanities division instructed department heads to collectively reduce their budgets for non-personnel spending by roughly $1.95 million as divisions across the...
UCLA Gears Up To Battle Justice Department
Leaders have made it clear that a $1-billion payout is a no-go. Another red line for several UC officials is the federal request that...
Artistic Director – Dallas Theater Center working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Dallas Theater Center (DTC) encourages qualified candidates to apply for the Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Position.
