Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Price Of Child Stardom (And What It Says About Us)
It shouldn’t shock us that many of them had uncomfortable and even traumatic experiences. Memoirs by Sarah Polley and Jennette McCurd force us to confront why we...
New Official Space Force Song Is… Really… (Well, Take A Listen And Decide)
After the Space Force released the song and a “behind the music” video on Tuesday, some public reactions were scathing. - The New York...
Is Broadway Really Changing?
The number of people of color who were in this past season was just staggering to me. But that’s not the question. The question...
Books As Weapons
Books carry knowledge, and knowledge is power, which makes books a threat to authorities – governments and self-appointed leaders alike – who want to...
How London’s Southbank Is Trying To Change The Classical Music Experience
The changes he goes on to detail might seem like small tweaks to a potential concert-goer but are a bigger deal in a juggernaut...
What Your Texting Etiquette Says About You
It’s ironic. Texting was meant to make communication easier, but it can be much harder to discern someone’s tone over text, especially with inflections...
How Social Media Has Rewired Our Interactions
Wading through digital sewage is the upfront cost of using these sites. Less obviously, we pay with our attention and creativity, freely providing the...
Picture Giant Getty Images Bans AI-Generated Images
"There are real concerns with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and unaddressed rights issues with respect to the imagery, the...
AI-Created Art Is Already Changing Art
“It's really easy to look at something from far away and say it's scary. When people actually use it, the attitudes are very different....
Jean-Luc Godard’s Singular Place In The Movies
Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the...
Why Do Some Art Heists Capture Our Imagination?
Art either captivates the public or it doesn’t, and the same, it would seem, is true of art heists. Some enthrall us with their...
Reinventing Long Wharf Theatre: Brave New World?
The theatre’s leadership insists that they’re not setting out to create a new theatre from scratch, but rather to build on Long Wharf’s legacy....
The Future Of American Regional Theatre: Out Of Buildings?
Earlier this year, we came to a decision that was years in the making: to leave our current home of 57 years and venture...
AI Can Impersonate Voices And The Deepfakes Are Hard To Spot
Deepfakes have brought with them a new level of uncertainty around digital media. To detect deepfakes, many researchers have turned to analyzing visual artifacts –...
Why Business As Usual May Kill Your Non-Profit
Did it become “comfortable” when leaders believed that the path of least resistance in business settings — kowtow to those to whom you report...
After 33 Years, Carl St. Clair To Step Down From Pacific Symphony
St.Clair, who turned 70 in June, requested that the symphony’s board begin plans for succession that assured continuity of leadership. - Voice of Orange...
World’s Longest Book (21,000 Pages) Is For Sale (But You Can’t Read It)
Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural...
Surprise! Brad Pitt Is A Terrific Visual Artist
Pinch me – I must be dreaming. Brad Pitt is an extremely impressive artist. I certainly didn’t expect to be saying that when I got up...
The Hollywood Sign Is Being Repaired (You Can Watch Online)
Freshening up the 45ft-tall letters will require about 250 gallons of paints and primer, and anyone who wants to watch the paint dry can...
Dying? Bay Area Artists Reject Idea Their Gallery Scene Is Ailing
“I’ve been here almost 32 years. Literally, the story never changes. We have an incredibly rich and vibrant arts scene here, and I...
AI Image Generators Have Already Changed The Visual Art World
Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis....
Study: YouTube’s “Dislike” Button Doesn’t Stop Unwanted Recommendations
Pressing Don’t Recommend Channel would stop only 43 percent of unwanted video recommendations while the Dislike button stopped only 12 percent of recommendations users...
Magic And Illusion Are Doorways To Neuroscience
Arts of illusion are often taken for granted, explained away as a series of clever tricks, but in the sharp and magical transition from...
The World’s Largest Collection Of Totem Poles
The totem poles in Ketchikan represent the ancestral traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. The Ketchikan Museum’s collection at the Totem Heritage...
The Long Lonely Road To Proving A Lucien Freud Is Real
Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity...