Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Exploring The Biology Of Radical Self-Delusion
We all suffer from delusions, and we all, like Oedipus, use tricks of self-deception to keep ourselves from acknowledging truths about our lives. Yet...
Manhattan DA Returns $8.3 Million Of Looted Antiquities To Turkey
The objects in question were linked to several ongoing investigations, among them, a trafficking network that systemically looted the ancient city of Bubon in...
The Imperative For Museums To Evolve Into Something New
For museums questioning how to make a sustained and long-term impact, the key factor is access. How do we define the public we’re aiming...
Broadway’s Signature Theatre Names A New Artistic Director
At Ars Nova, Emily Shooltz fostered the work of dozens of early-career playwrights the organization commissioned and developed for production, and over 100 others...
UK Arts Organizations Are Rejecting Corporate Funding. A Risky Strategy?
Could these increasingly messy call-outs and protests, personal attacks on social media and public decouplings result in an already woefully underfunded arts sector destroying...
San Francisco Symphony Facing Its Biggest Crisis Ever
The symphony believes one way to attract audiences is to showcase what few cities have, a one-of-a-kind performing arts scene, which also includes the...
Ace Auctioneer: 14 Factors That Make Art Valuable
"IÂ have put together a list of 14 criteria that convey financial value to a work of art. While the first point is emotional, all...
Universal Music: Betting The Future On A Superfans Strategy
Streaming equalizes the monetization across all fans, despite the fact that superfans listen to music a few hours every day, and yet casual fans...
Universal Music Chief: Streaming Will Power Music Business For Years To Come
“Fact number one”, according to Grainge, is that “streaming has resulted in a quantum leap forward in music access and monetization and streaming will continue to...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: How do you measure value? Self-worth? Thea Lim wrestles with the tensions between internal value for an artist and external valuation, now...
The Booking System For Comedy Clubs Is Broken
In comparison to the theater, live comedy has recovered from the pandemic in great commercial shape. But with success comes the danger of insularity,...
The Digital Age And The Collapse Of Self-Worth
What we hardly talk about is how we’ve reorganized not just industrial activity but any activity to be capturable by computer, a radical expansion of what...
California’s New Laws Regulating Use Of AI Now In Force
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a handful of artificial intelligence-related bills that would give actors more protection over their digital likenesses and fight...
Hollywood’s Film And TV Business Is In Sharp Decline. What To Do?
Despite differences over solutions, there is a consensus on the problem: California is simply not competitive with many other states and countries that offer...
Delphine von Schauroth Was A Celebrated Child Prodigy In The Early 19th Century. Why Did...
The German virtuoso pianist and composer was hailed as a musical genius by critics for her powerful and inventive performances and her original and...
The Fights Over How To Teach Reading…
Improving literacy is urgent, but the “crisis” framing can encourage quick fixes over substantive change—and promote top-down solutions that exclude the perspectives of professionals...
Are Translators Merely Mimics?
Throughout my career as a translator, I’ve been told that my job is to “capture the spirit” of the foreign text. But I have...
Why Do Some People Choke Under Pressure?
The researchers found that, in jackpot scenarios, the activity of neurons associated with motor preparation decreased. Motor preparation is the brain’s way of making...
Is Life Simply A Product Of Algorithms?
Today, it can be digitally simulated, biologically synthesised or made from entirely different materials to those that allowed our evolutionary ancestors to flourish. These...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: More and more of the world's iconic experiences have been overrun by crowds. In Barcelona there have been anti-tourist demonstrations. Venice has...
What If Fact-Checking Just Makes People Dig In More To Their Misbeliefs?
In 2010, a political-science paper came out that made people worry. It suggested fact-checks might actually make people dig in their heels. What if...
The First-Ever Imax Ballet Features Paris Ballet
This is the first-ever Filmed for Imax ballet, and will be released exclusively in Imax locations globally on November 8. - Deadline
San Francisco Ballet Chooses A New Director
Branislav Henselmann, 49, most recently worked as the deputy general manager of arts, culture and community for the city of Vancouver, where he worked...
Culture Of De-Culturation: Is Our Culture Dying?
Olivier Roy believes that a range of abstract and apparently unstoppable forces—globalization, neoliberalism, postmodernism, individualism, secularism, the Internet, and so on—are undermining culture by...
Hollywood Animation Workers Say Their Jobs Are Under Threat
AI poses an obvious threat to both animators and writers who tell Deadline they are already suffering from a lack of jobs due to...
