Existential crises have a way of forcing clarity. Whether the arts and the larger creative world are in crisis I leave for you to decide. But with weekly news of financial and organizational meltdowns, political pressures and an almost primordial angst about threats of AI, some things may be becoming clearer about what matters and/or what works.
AJ Chronicles: This Week in the Great Culture Shift
This week, ArtsJournal looked at thousands of stories and collected 118 stories across culture. This is one person’s attempt to make sense of them.
Old Laws, New Ghosts: Why Artists are losing the Battle for AI
The fear and concern are real. The issues are real. But we’re trying to conjure up rules for 21st Century technologies with a 20th-Century vocabulary that’s ill-equipped for the job.
An AI “Digital Twin” for the Performing Arts
In the evolving world of AI, marketing is moving from getting messages out to engaging in dialog with the consumer. Messages get lost in the Sea of Messages. Persuasion asks what you’re interested in first and engages you in opportunities.
The Great Renegotiation: Five Ideas about where Culture is going in 2026
If 2025 is the year that 20th Century culture models stopped working, 2026 is the year we turn to building something new.
Five Year-end Observations about Arts and Culture in 2025
We posted more than 6,000 stories across all forms of culture in 2025. When you pull back and look at them in aggregate, the individual crises—the closures in San Francisco, the lawsuits in D.C., the endless op-eds about the “death of cinema”—stop looking like isolated incidents. They resolve into a structural shift.
AI that turns Museums into Conversations: The Digital Twin
Museums still operate as if interpretation is a one-way stream, produced by experts and consumed by the public. Instead, imagine an exhibition that doesn’t just speak, but listens and responds.
The Disney/OpenAI Deal: How the Creative Landscape is being Rewritten for Us All
Like it or not, Disney’s move is a big step closer to what an AI creative world might look like.
The AI that has Colonized our Creativity
Everyone’s talking about AI, and you’re being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?
Not Really a Manifesto, I guess, but Perhaps a Framework for Thinking about AI and Art…
Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what’s at stake.
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