Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
AI-Generated Images Flood Online Art Sites Provoking Fierce Debate
The arrival of widely available image synthesis models such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion has provoked an intense online battle between artists who view AI-assisted artwork...
New AI Image Tools Disrupt Notions Of Ownership, Authorship
These new AI capabilities confront the world with a mountain of questions over the rights to the images the programs learned from, the likelihood...
How The Pandemic Has Warped Seattle Arts’ Return To Work
“All the houses are trying to open up at the same time, and they all need the same people,” Terry Podgorski said, noting that...
The Future of Video Editing?
Runway's "Text to Video" demonstration reel shows a text input box that allows editing commands such as "import city street" or "make it look...
Meet Wikipedia’s “Deaditors” Who Updated Queen Elizabeth’s Entry
While some on the internet were glued to Twitter or the BBC, checking for news or watching the planes en route to Balmoral Castle,...
150 Years Of Technological Progress That Changed The World
It really looks that we had as much technological change and progress between 1870 and today as we had between 6000 BC and 1870 AD....
What The Arts Learned About Digital Engagement
Digital events can reduce geographic inequalities, and lessen the costs associated with attending a festival. Digital delivery of a festival also provides something of...
Amazon Settles With Writers Guild Over Residual Payments
“Like Netflix, Amazon had been systematically undervaluing imputed license fees on theatrical films where it was both the producer and the distributor,” wrote WGA...
That Time Duke Ellington Made A Record With A Single Copy Just For Elizabeth...
We created a unique album solely for the pleasure of giving it to Queen Elizabeth. With the help of Billy Strayhorn, he composed The Queen’s...
A First: University Offers Degree In Chess
Webster University in St. Louis is renowned for attracting top-notch chess talent to its school, and now its School of Education is offering a...
How Book Battles Roiled A Texas Town And Put Librarians On The Front Lines
Strategies on how to lodge complaints against books are traded on Facebook and shared among branch chapters of parental rights groups. One of the...
Putin Stifles Artists As War Goes Badly
The number of banned theater directors, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians had been growing by the day. “I look around and I cannot find anything...
San Francisco Opera At 100
From modest beginnings in 1922, the company has grown and blossomed to become one of the preeminent organizations in American opera. - San Francisco...
The Internet Should Be Public Space. It’s Not. Time To De-Privatize?
There’s a lot of discussion today, including in Congress, about why parts of the web are so toxic and what to do about it—better content...
The Tangled Strings Around Freedom Of Speech
Free speech requires a robust exchange of views without the coercion of threats and violence, and self-censorship in response to social pressure is a...
Why We Need To Think About Science Literacy In A Different Way
Several lines of contemporary scholarship emphasize what might be gained by moving from a focus on science education to a focus on reciprocal power-sharing,...
Messy City, Clean City: The Tension That Makes London London
This distinction between the messy and the neat, the organic and the planned, helps us understand why London so often dislikes modern buildings. Modern...
Reconsidering Gauguin (In Fiction)
Daisy Lafarge’s debut novel, Paul, takes a unique approach to an ongoing question: How, in the age of the #MeToo movement, should we interact with...
A Life Well-Lived: Remembering Lars Vogt
Vogt brought people together in many places and on many levels: at his Spannungen festival in Heimbach, Germany, which became a musical home for...
How Today’s Billionaires Distort And Impede Things We Care About
The great fortunes of today's robber-barons have a vast, distorting influence on our society, bending our most urgent projects away from evidence-based policy and...
Inside Riccardo Muti’s Relationship With The Chicago Symphony
“You are the last orchestra and the most important orchestra where I have been music director. Your memory will accompany me in my heart...
This Summer’s Movie Box Office: Disappointing. Cause: Not Enough Movies
It was the lowest haul since 2001, when summer movies earned $3.34 billion at domestic theaters. The summer season typically accounts for about 40%...
Authors, Publishers Urge New UK Government To Reform Policies On Libraries, EBooks
With the cost-of-living crisis taking hold, the publishing industry hopes Truss and her government will bring in a range of measures to ensure people...
How COVID Changed The Gallery Opening Reception
“If we do three smaller events around an opening, it’s just that much better for the artist and for my team to be able...
The Minefield Of Staging Shakespeare Today
"It is a feeling of being in a minefield where some things are permitted and some not, but you don’t know which, or that...