Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why 1984’s “Terminator” Movie Still Resonates Today
The film’s legacy in pop culture is enduring. Cameron’s dark vision of the future created a cultural shock that continues to resonate to this...
How The Nobel Literature Prize Keeps Getting It Right
The fact that the Academy has alighted on a deserving, interesting winner of the prize continues to be strange and miraculous, even if the...
When All Of Paris Is A Festival
The multidisciplinary festival, which goes until late December and features 84 events spread over 60 venues, throughout Paris and its environs. Encompassing theater, dance,...
True Cost Of Video Game Piracy: About 20 Percent Of Revenues
While the true effect of piracy on sales revenue is likely somewhere between those two extremes, piracy's precise financial impact on a game has...
Historic Bay Area Record Store Faced With Paying Millions To Stay In Business
Chris Strachwitz — who purchased the building in 1976 with money earned from the publishing royalties on Country Joe & the Fish’s “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die” — died in...
Wikipedia Declares War On Pink Slime AI
The group is clear that they don't wish to ban responsible AI use outright, but instead seek to eradicate instances of badly-sourced, hallucination-filled, or otherwise unhelpful AI content...
Nobel Literature Win Demonstrates Importance Of Small Presses
South Korean writer Han Kang's win as the 2024 Nobel Literature laureate is a triumph not only for Korean literature but also a reminder...
Of The Three Kinds Of Luck, This Is Most Consequential
Perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's highlights:
Monet Pastel Stolen By Nazis Returned To Family Generations Later "Adalbert Parlagi and his son Franz kept meticulous ownership...
How The Tampa Museum Prepared For A Hurricane
“Our facility has been designed to withstand a direct hit from a category three on the second floor, we just completed a 25,000 square-foot renovation,...
The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked, Taken Down
An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the...
Who Invented The Marvel Multiverse? Look Back To Balzac
I believe the first person to master the fictional multiverse was the 19th-century French novelist, Honoré de Balzac, in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine (The...
Cleanup On Aisle 3! DVD-Rental Company Goes Bankrupt, Strands Its Retail Boxes Across America
Redbox’s parent filed for bankruptcy in the summer, saying it lacked the cash to buy the rights to many new releases, and the kiosk...
Monet Pastel Stolen By Nazis Returned To Family Generations Later
Adalbert Parlagi and his son Franz kept meticulous ownership and search records. After Franz’s death in 2012, Françoise Parlagi stumbled upon her father’s cache...
Manhattan’s Trinity Church Bells Host Musicians In Ringing Contest
Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity Church tower and strike eight bells in a complex,...
New Toronto Opera Festival
Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival is Toronto’s first-ever festival to combine opera and musical theatre in a celebration of Canadian creators and performers. - Ludwig...
Pittsburgh Ballet Advertises On Streaming Services And Sees Returns
Beginning last season the ballet company also began advertising its more family-friendly shows on big-name streaming services like Hulu and Disney+ and even in...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's highlights:
Remembering Lewis Lapham, My First Boss: "It’s a strange thing to have a walk-on role in the fifth act...
A Provocative Art Premise Challenges Convention
While the court’s decision to uphold MONA’s right to maintain a women-only space is significant, it’s Kaechele’s performative celebration outside the courthouse that deserves...
A New Jazz Club Model In Pricey Seattle?
In pricey, increasingly corporate Seattle, the Fellowship venue represents a conspicuously unlucrative exercise. Its modest 48-seat layout and limited wine and beer bar give...
Canadian Prairies Try A “Got Milk?” Style Campaign To Promote Arts
The creatives from Winnipeg’s Show and Tell Agency are relatively safe, especially compared with Michael Bay’s bonkers original “Got Milk?” commercial. But there’s a...
Why Do Some Arts Organizations Do Better Than Others?
"When it comes to finding and delighting audiences, I have found the Trend Busters fall into two participation philosophies: a Go Broad approach and...
Close Examination Of AI Art Reveals Human Side
Close reading even such an unserious set of prompts and images offers clues about the scaffolding behind these operations, as well as broader insights...
Soprano Storms Onstage To Demand End To Colleague’s Encore
The celebrated soprano Angela Gheorghiu, who was singing the title role in a performance on Sunday, stormed onstage and demanded that he stop, according to local...
Is It Important To Distill One’s Philosophy To A “Saying”?
When I think of sayings, I think first of the early Greek philosophers—the so-called pre-Socratics—whose ideas, if they wrote them down at all, survive...
