Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Aspen Art Museum Takes A Turn To The Global
Twenty years after founding its gala, ArtCrush, in a town where an apartment can run north of $4 million, the museum is attempting a...
The Documentary Culture: The Impulse To Record Everything
Richer and deeper memories appear to enhance your individuality: a thin and shallow autobiographical narrative appears to lead to a less substantial self, whereas...
How Late Night TV Became So Political
To understand how network late-night hosts became such critics of Trump, you have to take the long view, because their increasingly political commentary preceded...
Research: AI Answers Change Depending On Culture
“Our findings suggest that the cultural tendencies embedded within AI models shape and filter the responses that AI provides. As generative AI becomes part...
Is Milan’s Art World Ready For A Breakthrough?
“We are now the gateway to the European Union,” local art advisor Mattia Pozzoni told me over spritzes at local culinary institution Sant Ambroeus....
After 26 Years, Lisa Philips To Retire As Director Of The New Museum
On Thursday, she announced plans to depart the New Museum in April, after the institution opens its 62,000-square-foot expansion that cost $82 million and...
E-Book Contracts To Libraries Are Expensive. Is This A Way To Fix The Problem?
The goal is to drive down demand for short-term e-book contracts and force publishers to offer e-books to libraries on better terms. - Harvard...
What Does It Mean To Put Your Community At The Heart Of Arts Institution...
New Art Exchange is one of just two cultural institutions in Britain – the other being Birmingham Museums Trust – that have put randomly...
New Test Of AI Ability Shows AI Beats Humans In A Variety Of Tasks
For GPT-5-high, a souped-up version of GPT-5 with extra computational power, the company says the AI model was ranked as better than or on...
Poll: More Americans Prefer To See New Movies By Streaming Than In Theatres
About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past...
How To Test Whether An Argument Is Valid
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion...
What Propelled The Rise Of Civilization? War
Ultrasociality was the secret of survival in this perpetual arms race, making it the ultimate military technology — or war the ultimate social technology....
The Movie Hospital — Where Damaged Movies Go To Be Reborn
Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in...
Making The Case For Fra Angelico
“Fra Angelico,” which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 25, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. Bringing together more than 140 works...
Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Decline
"Although cities develop new activities and abandon old ones, they do so in a way that keeps their coherence constant. This suggests that such...
Harvard Has Been Quietly Dismantling DEI Programs
Over the last several months, Harvard has made significant changes to identity-focused programming — eliminating or rebranding entire programs abruptly and with minimal, if...
How Architects Are Using AI To Transform The Creative Process
“Instead of having to go build a prototype physically or a model room, you can take people on this journey and then make the...
On America’s 250th Birthday: Where’s The Pittsburgh Symphony’s American Music?
Of the symphony’s 20 classical subscription concerts, only two of them feature American works in those all-important, major-work slots. Both of those concerts will...
UK Music Venues Are Dying. Might A BYOB Business Model Save Them?
“Some clubs are charging £5 for a ticket, you get to the bar and it’s £12 for a double,” meaning cash-strapped students will stay...
A Crisis In Australia’s Arts Sector. Is There A Way To Revitalize The Arts?
Left as it is, the nation’s not-for-profit performing arts sector will not survive. The whole system is teetering on the edge of artistic and...
This Year’s Booker Prize Finalists
The shortlist includes Indian-born author Kiran Desai, 19 years after she won the prize, as well as past nominees Andrew Miller and David Szalay....
What AI Has Provoked: An Existential Crisis At Universities
If the university exists only to warehouse knowledge and to transmit tradition, then it is doomed. But the university’s inability to claim a near...
Controversies About AI Writing Put Our Language Conventions To Test
Humans do not think or speak in sentences; we think and speak in thoughts, which interrupt and introduce and complicate one another in a...
Comedians Are Square In The Authoritarian Sights
It’s easy to roll your eyes at late-night comedians getting applause for mocking the president. Many people, myself included, found some of those jokes...
What Happens When You Spend Three Hours Staring At A Painting
This exercise in what she calls immersive attention has remained a core element of Jennifer Roberts’s art history teaching for more than a decade, despite the...
