Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Marina Abramović, Wellness Guru?
Want to learn to live like her? The Marina Abramović Institute offers €2,450 (~$2,600) five-day Cleaning the House workshops in various locations—Brazil, Thailand—taught by...
Let’s Take A Critical Read Of That AI-Written Story Sam Altman Was So Impressed...
Altman wrote that the model “got the vibe of metafiction so right.” But that’s like saying that Trump Tower gets the vibe of Versailles...
Why We’re Drawn To Apocalyptic Stories Right Now
Dystopian dramas are clearly in vogue right now, but films and TV dramas have often reflected the fears and anxieties of their times. - The...
Visitors: Isn’t The Smithsonian Already Telling The Story Of America?
“There’s no way this is anti-American if it’s showing everything we’ve been through and what our nation is founded on. How is it divisive...
Architect David Childs, 83
David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1...
GenX Creatives Have Been Screwed
If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a...
DEI Policies May Have Been Flawed. But The Backlash Is Alarming
Today, DEI programs are being shuttered across North America. Despite my own and others’ cynicism about how DEI is employed, this is an alarming...
Vancouver Art Gallery Parts Ways With Its CEO
He was at the helm as the gallery prepared to relocate to a new building downtown and then scrapped that plan last year after the project’s...
Renzo Piano Recalls Building The Museum That Scandalized Paris
As far as possible, the original building will be conserved as it was before. To do otherwise might be considered cultural sacrilege – after...
YouTube Stars Make Their Pitch To Advertisers: We’re The New Appointment TV
"These creators are like the networks of today delivering the hit TV shows of today. This is really about one-to-one communication, where creators can...
How The National Antiquities Act Has Saved Natural Wonders
They cover more than a quarter of the nation and large parts of the West. Some are crisscrossed by hiking trails and used by hunters and...
The Problematic Notion Of Recovered Memories
This case launched a huge debate between memory researchers like me who argue there is no credible scientific evidence that repressed memories exist and practicing clinicians who claim that...
Two Big Seattle Theatres Join Forces
This pairing is the latest in a series of major deals between local arts and cultural organizations, including the merger of ACT Contemporary Theatre and...
Drawing Bought For $12 Might Be Renoir
There was a faint signature, the frame was high quality and the type of paper used was also a clue that it might potentially...
Social Media Overwhelmed Us. We Got Concerned Far Too Late
Call me a Luddite, but I do not think it wise to wait until these kindly bots are in place before deciding how effective...
Movie Theatres Are Still Struggling To Recover Business
North America has 5,691 fewer screens compared with pre-COVID times, according to research by media consultancy Omdia. Box office grosses haven’t rebounded either. Ticket...
Sebastian Smee: Colorado Trump Portrait Is Bad Art, But Distorted?
Distorted? He’s a bit jowly, perhaps, but I — “even I?” — think it’s a decent resemblance. Still, I agree with the president that...
Trump Demands Congress Defund Public Radio And Television
“Republicans, don’t miss this opportunity to rid our Country of this giant SCAM, both being arms of the Radical Left Democrat Party,” he wrote...
Are We Headed For A New “Dark Ages”?
If Russia, China, and the United States all sport various shades of totalitarianism, and Europe fractures over it, the world may very well enter...
Viral Trend: AI Image Update Floods Internet With Studio Ghibli-ized Images
On social media, users have shared multiple examples of Ghibli-style images produced by OpenAI’s new image generator. - Variety
Court Rules That Music Created By AI Can’t Be Copyrighted. But This Doesn’t Settle...
“Based on the fundamental principles of copyright, the current state of fast-evolving technology, and the information received… the Copyright Office concludes that existing legal...
Last Week’s AI Image Leap Reignites Copyright Fears
OpenAI’s and Google’s latest tools make it easier than ever to re-create the styles of copyrighted works — simply by typing a text prompt....
Music Publishers Lose AI Ruling In Court
A federal court in California denied an injunction sought by music publishers in their copyright case against Anthropic on Tuesday. The injunction would’ve barred the AI...
Technology Has Shaped Human Knowledge For Centuries
From clay tablets to electronic tablets, technology has played an influential role in shaping human knowledge. Today we stand on the brink of the next...
Justin Davidson: Recreating The Frick Museum
"I worried that all the tinkering would leave the grande dame of mansion museums like a movie star whose cosmetic procedures had gone awry:...
