Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Is The Art World Focusing On Photography Just As AI Images Are Becoming...
Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography. It is part of a broader...
Is Cultural Tourism Growing Up?
While in the past, we may have been cynical that cultural tourism was just a watered-down ‘sell-y’ option parcelled up by cruises or tour...
Study: How Arts Agencies Helped Local Arts Communities Through The Pandemic
External and Internal advocacy work solidified support for the sector and gave funding agencies “seats at the table” within local government funding deliberations that...
The Case Against The Idea That Computers Will Ever Be Able To Think
It is one thing to appreciate the ways we make and remake ourselves through the cultural transformation of our worlds via tool use and...
Warsaw’s New Museum Of Modern Art Tries To Transcend Poland’s Communist Legacy
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric...
Critic Gary Indiana, 74
Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and...
Grandparents Organizing To Fight Book Bans
“I want to make sure my grandchildren grow up in a world where they can read and form opinions based on knowledge, not on...
Stepping Inside A Painting (And Into History)
The Night Revels blasts through that flimsy structure of history to show us a work of detailed authentication that is nearly 1200 years old. This...
Is This The Reason Some Of The Books We Buy Now Are Of Terrible...
Many consumers likely don’t know the difference between a print-on-demand book and a traditionally produced paperback, at least not at first. But once you...
How America’s Poet Laureate Collaborated With NASA On Its Mission To Jupiter
It isn’t the first poem to slip the surly bonds of Earth and it won’t be the last. But its origin story is a reminder of...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: We are a culture of storytellers. It's how we build culture, make sense of, and share it. Playwright James Graham believes we...
How Comic Sans Became The Most-Hated Font
Quibble with its gaucheness all you want, but a huge number of people have formed an opinion about Comic Sans, in the same way someone might...
Tim Burton: Going On The Internet Makes Me Depressed
"If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed," the 66-year-old said. "It scared me because I started to go...
UCLA Study: Going To Movies Is Adolescents’ Favorite Pastime
A survey of 1,500 young people across the U.S. aged 10 to 24 — identified going to see a film on opening weekend as adolescents’...
Are We In A Crisis Of Storytelling?
“A country is only the stories it tells itself about itself.” It’s James Graham's contention that, since the 2008 financial crisis, the West has...
How DIY Has Transformed The Music Industry
One of the most significant shifts has been the rise of DIY artists. These independent musicians take on roles traditionally held by record labels...
The Art Of Travel Writing
Travel writing, historically, has followed suit in expressing everything from performative adoration and exoticization to sheer racism and erasure. But at its best it can...
When The Ukraine War Broke Out, International Artists Abandoned Working In Russia. Now One...
As the war nears its third year, a cohort of Italian curators, artists, and art historians, including Luca Tomìo and Alessandro Romanini, have bucked...
How To Get Hooked On Opera
Operas deal with all of life’s big issues, from unrequited love to the death of a loved one. They address social issues too: political...
How Cheerleading Took Over Girls’ Sports
It is a huge part of the country’s arts scene, quietly flourishing and influencing new generations of dancers and choreographers. - The New York...
A Simple Old Computer Program And Its Invitation To Be Creative
Art made on Paint is often amateurish, but amateurish in a way that celebrates human flaw. Struggling to make something out of nothing —...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Festivals were the star events of the 2010s. The secret sauce for the most successful of them was in delivering unique experiences...
The Power Of Nobel Laureate Han Kang
This is the power of Han Kang: With little more than paper and ink, she acts as a conduit for the memories of generations...
The African Diaspora And Reclaiming Narratives
The central task of writers of the colonial or the Black experience is to claim back their humanity. This profound urge runs through the...
Illinois Town Becomes Home To America’s Fiberglass Giant Statues
“It’s just like any small town. So now, even though he is a 19-foot-tall statue of a guy holding a hot dog, he’s our...