Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Does More Education Fend Off Cognitive Decline? Study Says No
Although education is linked to better cognitive skills and health, it does not appear to alter the brain’s physical structure in the long run....
Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Music Director Suddenly Quits After Only Four Months
According to a press release, Sergey Bogza has resigned due to “personal, health and family reasons.” - WKBN
Azerbaijan “Repurposes” Copyright To Suppress Public Artwork
By making claim of copyright on images of public art it doesn't like, the country "disappears" images from the public record. - Hyperallergic
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Chief To Step Down
John Limbacher’s time as president, which began in 2016, has been marked by balanced budgets, even through the pandemic, which walloped performing arts organizations across...
Study: Listeners’ Recall Of Earworm Songs Are Extraordinarily Accurate, Down To The Pitch
Of the usable recordings, 44.7% matched the original song’s pitch exactly. Expanding the margin slightly, nearly 69% of recordings were within one semitone of...
Neuroscience Unlocks How Our Brains React To Movie Scenes
Using machine learning on data from the Human Connectome Project, the research mapped areas that respond to diverse audio-visual stimuli. The findings could inform...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Here are this weekend's highlights:
How The Pandemic Has Reshaped Cultural PhilanthropyThe pandemic spurred a shift in arts funding, with donors increasingly focused...
This Week’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: An eventful week. 'Nuff said. Here are this week's AJ highlights:
Cal Shakes Veterans Mourn, And Remember Former artists of the California Shakespeare...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Since the early days of the internet, people have been trying to figure out how our screen lives compare to our real-life...
Popular Glastonbury Tries A New Scheme For Online Ticket Sales After An Increasingly Chaotic...
This year they will now visit a holding page before the start of the ticket sale, “at least a few minutes before the sale...
Sotheby’s Sells AI-Created Artwork For $1M
On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the humanoid robot artist Ai-Da sold for $1,084,800 during the auction house’s Digital...
Shepard Fairey On How Art Can Connect Us To Our Better Selves
Art is capable of connecting with the best part of who we are as humans and stimulating the part of us that recognizes the...
Howard Sherman: Struggling With How To Appreciate Opera
The blurring of lines that brought me to the opera voluntarily, willingly and with the same anticipation I bring to theatre suggests there may...
China’s Movie Box Office Is Collapsing
A prolonged fallow period extending through the summer has left the Beijing film industry wringing its hands, wondering whether a lasting shift in the...
A Time Of Reckoning For Media In A New Trump Era?
There are blaring red warnings signs for traditional media everywhere you look. Ratings for the broadcast and cable news channels saw steep declines in ratings from...
New Science Is Revising Stories Of The People Of Ancient Pompeii
Scientists analyzed ancient DNA extracted from skeletal remains and pieced together fragments of five people’s identities, rewriting the romantic stories of who they were...
The US Archivist Is Accused Of Whitewashing American History
U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought...
Has Our Technology Collapsed Our Ability To Experience Awe?
Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: The ticketing industry is rife with scams, fake tickets, outrageous fees and frustrating service. Customers get lured to websites that aren't official...
Well-Known UK TV Actor Comes Up With Scheme To Save Small Theatre
Funds would be raised by selling tickets to the performances of the winning entries, with the theatre’s president Suranne Jones giving an on-stage critique...
The Need To Be Right (It’s Seductive)
The background condition of this discussion is our current state of permacrisis: the collision of multiple critical problems whose conjunction renders effective response to...
How Quincy Jones Became The Ultimate Artistic Collaborator
Even when letting a singer loose, he knew that rhythm would always end up having its say. - The New Yorker
When Johnny Carson Animated American Late Night
His easygoing exterior belied a deft improvisatory mind that could take the temperature of the room, the guest, and the viewer all at once,...
Why Is “American Gothic” Such An Enduring Image?
The painting’s essential elements—man, woman, pitchfork—have been referenced, reimagined, and parodied in everything from a 1942 photograph by Gordon Parks to a 2012 episode...
Warhol Prints Damaged In Amateurish Attempted Heist
The gallery’s owner Mark Peet Visser has described the heist as “amateurish,” noting that explosives used to gain entry were “so violent that my...