Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Sotheby’s Sells Its Longtime Manhattan Headquarters
The move marks the latest step in a real estate overhaul that includes its 2023 acquisition of the Breuer Building, the Whitney Museum’s former home on Madison...
Major UK Galleries Report Precipitous Drop In Sales
Both galleries reported a nearly 90% decline in pre-tax profits, coinciding with a rumored multiyear art market downturn marked by a global decline in public...
Europe’s Great Rare Books Theft Spree
The Warsaw book heist was not an isolated incident but one of the final stops on an unprecedented grand tour of bibliophilic crime, which...
America’s Largest Supplier Of Books To Libraries To Shut Down
Baker & Taylor let go about 520 employees yesterday and plans to wind down the business by January. Employees who were laid off had...
As We’re On The Verge Of AI, It’s Useful To Reconsider The Luddites
“Ultimately they said: ‘We only want to prevent the implementation of technology as it is harmful, as it is injurious to the working man.’...
The Jimmy Kimmel Affair Exposed Growing Rift Between Networks And Affiliates
As affiliates, they’re not happy. And as they lobby the FCC to abolish the cap on how many stations one company can own (currently...
Longtime ARTnews Owner Milton Esterow, 97
Esterow purchased ARTnews in 1972 from Newsweek, which at the time was a division of the Washington Post Company, and owned it until 2014, when ARTnews was sold in...
Australian Arts Industry Hampered By Rise In Touring Costs
‘We have no shortage of invitations to show our work overseas, but our level of secure, ongoing funding is not enough to underpin these...
How Does Our Brain Perceive The World?
Most of the time, our intuition tells us that what we are seeing (or hearing or feeling) is an accurate representation of what is...
AI Creations On Screen Is Not “Acting”!
The contrast could not be clearer. On one side is Day-Lewis, embodying a role that carries the weight of decades of human experience and...
Alex Ross: The NY Phil’s And Met Opera’s Seasons Of Politics
Two things struck me about the launch of the Philharmonic season. First, the orchestra is embracing pluralism and diversity in the face of a...
How The US Government Shutdown Is Affecting Museums
Smithsonian–run institutions remain open using funds from previous years through October 11. Should the shutdown last beyond that date, the Smithsonian will also close....
What The LA Fires Taught The Art World
While the scope and scale of the art losses are still being determined, claims may take years to resolve. - ARTnews
How Taylor Swift’s Marketing Machine Guarantees Success
At time of writing, over 24 different versions of the CD and vinyl have been released. These include different colour vinyls, different cover images,...
Francis Fukuyama: Why Populism Has Been On The Rise
After pondering these questions for nearly a decade, I have come to conclude that technology broadly and the internet in particular stand out as...
Universities Respond To Trump Proposal Of A “Compact”
“This action targets funding for things like cancer research, Pell Grants for students from low-income backgrounds, and criteria for hiring faculty. This displays a...
AI Seems To Be Homogenizing Our Thinking
Of course, a writer can in theory always refuse an A.I.-generated suggestion. But the tools seem to exert a hypnotic effect, causing the constant...
How The Museum of Moden Art Store Became A Big Brand On Its Own
The MoMA Store has become a brand in and of itself to the point where there are shoppers who know the acronym and logo...
How “Tilly” Is Dividing Hollywood
There have, of course, been AI actors before. Carrie Fisher was famously resurrected for The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. James Cameron used background “actors” to...
The Biographer: Data Mining? Or Something Else?
“How can you write in a way that shows somebody working day after day on a piece of work?” asks Richard Holmes, with the...
Maureen Dowd: In The Forest Of The Uncanny Valley
Human connections have been eroding for some time. We’re all dwelling in Uncanny Valley now, staring into our personal screens, not sure what’s real...
Theatre As Narrative? Why?
“I have a real problem with the idea that theater is meant to achieve narrative fluidity, as if it could somehow resolve the world’s...
AI Is Getting Very Good At Creating Fake Crowds. Why That’s A Problem
This observation could potentially have serious consequences in a society where images of big, engaged crowds at public events like rock concerts, protests and...
Hollywood Actors Are Furious About AI-“Actor” Tilly
“They are going to use our work, use all this information, to perfect every possible inflection and expression. And they are just going to...
Report: For The First Time, More Americans Get Their News From Social Media Than...
“The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both...
