Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good Morning: We're at the stranded assets part of the cable television business. Comcast has decided to spin off its cable networks (though not...
How A Refugee From The Kennedy Center Built A Center For Dance In Southern...
Judy Morr "decided to do something nobody else was doing in Southern California, which was to bring major international dance companies to Orange County....
Musical America Names Its Artists Of The Year
Barbara Hannigan heads the list. - Musical America
Study: Many Readers Prefer Chatbot Shakespeare To The Real Thing
A.I. chatbots can imitate famous poets like William Shakespeare well enough to fool many human readers, according to a new paper published Thursday in...
Nigeria Builds A Museum For The 21st Century
The Museum of West African Art (Mowaa), a constellation of buildings and outdoor performance spaces spread out across a 6-hectare (15-acre) campus, will hold...
Swedish Company Uses AI To “Post-Edit” And Create Translations Of Books
Nuanxed's approach, known as post-editing (PE), combines the use of AI translation tools with human editing and proofing. According to cofounder and CEO Robert...
Luigi Nono @100: A Legacy Of Deep Listening
Nono saw the potential to communicate with contemporary audiences, neither bound by nor rejecting the past, building solidarity against any resurgence of the fascism...
The Johnny Carson Phenomenon
In our fragmented media landscape, it can be difficult to grasp just how large Carson loomed over the culture. At the center of late-night...
Louisiana Almost Killed Its Movie Tax Credit
Last week, the state House of Representatives voted to terminate the incentive effective June 30, 2025, as part of a sweeping tax reform package....
How Thirty Years Of The UK National Lottery Has Changed Culture
“Without the profound impact of National Lottery funding for the arts, heritage, charity and tourism sectors, introduced by the Conservative government in 1994, survival...
Today’s AJ Highlights
This Composer Created An Entire Week-Long Piece Specifically For People’s Living Rooms “Drawing from a bank of over 7,000 ‘musical shapes, textures and gestures,’...
London’s Royal Opera Explores What It Means To Have A Voice (And Lose It)
“When you lose your voice, it takes away more than just your ability to communicate. You also lose part of your identity, personality and...
Yo-Yo Ma And Kathryn Stott: A 40-Year Musical Partnership Comes To An End
Friends before they started playing together, Ma and Stott met in 1978 in rather unusual circumstances. - The New York Times
African Musicians Sound Off About Using AI In Music
"My problem with AI is the ownership. Once you have taken some music from Ghana or Nigeria, who owns that music? How would you...
How Technology Has Reshaped The Ways We Talk To One Another
The kinds of speech that strike us as authentic, satisfying, and desirable change with time, and depend on our position in the world and...
Let’s Get Real: What AI Does Is Not Speaking Language
To invoke language when talking about LLMs is to misunderstand the nature of language and miss its fundamentally lived and embodied character. LLMs may...
Bay Area Museums Are Struggling To Survive
More than half a dozen nonprofit arts and cultural institutions reviewed by the Chronicle have experienced significant revenue decreases, most say attendance remains below...
The Prado Museum Casts Itself In The Role Of Literary Muse
Since last year, the Prado has been bringing novelists to live in an apartment overlooking the museum. They stay for periods ranging from three...
How Do Humans Understand Direction? With Language, Of Course
The configuration and language of the four directions is common to many—though not all—cultures. - LitHub
Russian Ballet Dancer Critical Of Putin Falls From 5th Floor To His Death
Multiple Vladimir Putin adversaries have died after falling from windows. The term “Sudden Russian Death Syndrome” was born after many notable Russian figureheads who...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Black Artists And Performers Claim Egypt For Africa At The Met“By staging performances within the Met’s hallowed halls, these artists challenge traditional narratives of...
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How Might We Communicate With Aliens? Understanding AI Might Help
Unlike bones, we can’t dig up ancient languages to study how they developed over time. While we may be unable to study the true...
News Service AP Will Cut Eight Percent On Its Staff In Restructuring
The bulk of the changes will come in the U.S., where we remain committed to our 50-state footprint but must evolve to align with...
Study: People Can’t Tell The Difference Between Human And AI Writing
Ten poets, from the medieval Geoffrey Chaucer to modern writer Dorothea Lasky, were successfully impersonated by AI chatbots, with most of the 696 participants slightly...