Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Medieval Monks Spread Culture And Learning
The importance of monasteries for the emergence of the Renaissance can hardly be overstated. Their number increased many times over from the sixth to...
What, Exactly, Defines Real Creativity?
What is the difference between great and mediocre art? Why do some songs, poems, and paintings move us profoundly, while others—even if they impress...
Use Of AI In Movies, TV, Becoming Widespread
Even amid widespread vocal pushback against generative artificial intelligence, industry leaders say its use in film and TV is slowly becoming mainstream. More filmmakers...
Our Notions Of Copyright May Be Standing In The Way Of Creativity
Who, exactly, owns the outputs of a generative model? The user who crafted the prompt? The developer who built the model? The artists whose...
How Our Reading Is Changing
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of...
How AI Can Refocus History
Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of large-language models with a combination of fascination and horror,...
Report: More Than Half Of Americans Now Get Their News From Social Media
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps...
In May, Streaming Viewership Beat Broadcast And Cable Viewership For The First Time Ever
Streaming accounted for 44.8% of viewership via TV screens during the month, the report said, while broadcast (20.1%) and cable (24.1%) together represented 44.2%...
The Cultural Implications Of The UK National Gallery Rehang
A rehang tends to elicit strong reactions from anyone with a stake in the collection – and in the case of a public gallery,...
How The Fake Research Publishing Game Works
The paper mills have various techniques to take advantage of desperate or lazy researchers and to trick publishers: some operate as a marketplace in...
Defining The Art Of Genius
Generally, we want geniuses to be good with their minds rather than with their hands, but we can make an exception for a surgeon...
Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum Opening Is Delayed Due To “Regional Developments”
“In light of the current regional developments, it has been decided to postpone the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum,” the GEM explained...
Opera Montreal Picks A New General Director
The company announced that the Board of Directors chose Jen-Pierre Primiani, who currently serves as Chief Philanthropy Officer, for the position and will begin...
Rural Public Media Stations Will Close Or Be Greatly Reduced As Federal Support Goes...
“That would mean an almost immediate disappearance of almost half our operating budget,” David Gordon, executive director of KEET in Eureka, California, said of...
The Urge To Isolationism Isn’t New
This exaltation of self-sufficiency and the downgrading of the value of trading links amounts to a profound break from the orthodoxy of globalisation –...
Figuring Out The “Ulysses” Phenomenon
The fate of Ellmann and his Joyce biography highlights the disorienting transformation of literature as a field of study. The canons dismantled during the...
Data: Why We Still Need Women’s Writing Prizes
Our analysis of the dataset shows how there is still a ways to go before women’s writing is valued — awarded, remunerated and read...
Nearly Half Of Sarasota Ballet Dancers Quit, Claiming Toxic Work Environment
Nearly half the company’s dancers — including its top two female principals — are leaving after a season marked by strained relationships with leadership,...
Fulbright Board Resigns Over Interference In Awards
Awards were overridden in subject areas spanning architecture, biology, engineering, agriculture, animal sciences, medical sciences, music and history, it says, accusing the administration of...
New Immersive Museum To Open In NYC
“It’s not just a genre,” he told me over email. “It’s a form expression for a younger generation of artists, which is both natural...
Study: Music Listeners In Cities Have Wider Tastes But Share Less
The researchers calculated each individual's "listening radius"—roughly how far they roamed across genres and artists. They found that people living in larger urban areas...
Music Is Now UC Berkeley’s Fastest-Growing Major
The increase in music majors may be related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It turns out people turned to music in their time at home, and...
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Ad Industry Faces An AI Reckoning
“The advertising world might be at their funeral without even realizing it,” said Geoffrey Colon, an entrepreneur who spent two decades at creative agencies...
National Portrait Museum Director That Trump Fired Decides To Leave Anyway
“This was not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. From the very beginning, my guiding principle has been to...
The Gentileschi That Survived The Beirut Explosion
Having passed only between three private collections over four centuries, the “Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece” exhibition marks the first time the painting...
