Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Two Years After The British Museum Thefts Were Revealed, Big Questions About The Curator...
What might have motivated a respected professional to allegedly take such high risks for such low rewards? Why is the police investigation taking so...
GAO Agency Finds That Trump Administration Withholding Of Library And Museum Funding Breaks Law
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a decision on Monday finding that the Trump administration‘s withholding of funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), appropriated by Congress,...
The Loneliness Epidemic And Its Link To Technology
Studies link loneliness and social isolation to increased mortality, dementia and stroke. Among adults, loneliness is linked to chronic diseases such as heart disease and obesity, and it...
Seventeen Years Later, Spain’s Publishing Industry Works Itself Back To 2008 Level
Spain was especially hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, with a housing market collapse, credit growth in real estate, a fast-shrinking GDP, unemployment...
The Festival That Puts a Scientist In Every Pub
The Roving Scientist Bar thus became a flagship program of the Beaker Street Festival, this year returning to Hope & Anchor, Australia’s oldest continuously...
Colorado Museums Brace For Program Cancellations
Institutions across Colorado were awarded about $4.3 million in IMLS grants, most of which require matching funds from the museum or library, for the...
Neuroscientist: Music Involves Every Cognitive Ability We Have
“The interesting thing about music is that it touches memory, perception, motor skills, emotions, and reading. It touches everything." - El Pais
AI Is Rewiring The Internet And… Of Course There Are Downsides
A growing body of research correlates persistent use of AI with a drop in critical thinking; humans become reliant on AI and unwilling, perhaps unable, to verify its work....
Posting The Receipts: Writers Are Documenting Themselves Writing On TikTok To Prove They’re Not...
Prolific authors are not only calling out people who use AI to write, they’re also posting livestreams and time-lapses of their writing processes to...
Inside Pensacola, America’s Book-Banning Capital
Many Pensacola parents were appalled by this surge of censorship; some wondered if it was unconstitutional. By early 2024, a U.S. district court judge...
Is Art Basel Losing Its Mojo?
Art Basel’s flagship event in Switzerland now faces formidable challenges. The 289 gallerists from 42 countries participating in this year’s edition of the fair,...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Its Recently-Hired Executive Director
Before leading the festival, Gabriella Calicchio had more than 25 years of experience in the arts, including as managing director of Minneapolis’ nonprofit Children’s...
Fish Out Of Water: A Working Class Writer At The Iowa Writers’ Workshop
"Before their arrival, my classmates had been editorial assistants and reporters and interns for major publications. I had been working nights as a package...
Why Culture Desperately Needs Better Digital Infrastructure
When AI systems learn about Canadian culture, history, and events, they should be learning from trusted, structured, Canadian sources - not filtered scraps from...
How Detroit Reinvented Through The Arts
Fuelled by an enterprising spirit born from recent adversity, many have found new ways to inject life into their communities and cultural arenas. In...
So Why Does Everyone Seem To Be Identifying With Imposter Syndrome?
The phrase “impostor syndrome” often elicits a fierce sense of identification, especially from millennial and Gen X women. When I put out a call...
Netflix To Start Streaming Broadcast Channels
If it proves successful, Netflix and TF1’s partnership could unlock the door for more linear channels to air on streaming services, including in other...
What AI Art Looks Like When It Hasn’t Trained On Artists’ Work
Depending on your perspective, Broad’s art is either a pioneering display of pure artificial creativity, a look into the very soul of AI, or...
AI Bots Are Scouring Our Museum and Library Collections. Is Our Culture Being Stolen?
"For example, one respondent’s online collection included a semi-private archive that normally received a handful of visitors per day. That archive was discovered by...
How California Became The Home Of Innovation For Music Technology
San Francisco ‘60s utopian counterculture, psychedelic drugs, defying authority, breaking rules, and a general sense of severing from the past for a brighter future...
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...
