Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Data: Are Art Historians Now More Employable Than Computer Scientists?
According to data released this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recent art history graduates nationwide were more employed than computer science...
Portland Art Museum Chief Tapped To Run Dallas Museum Of Art
Brian Ferriso came to Portland in 2006 after a series of art museum leadership roles in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Milwaukee and Chicago. During his tenure,...
Why MAGA Is Mad At The Smithsonian
“We’ve got to get patriotism back in the Smithsonian,” conservative Texas Congressman Sam Johnson said, on being appointed to the museum’s Board of Regents...
Trump Is Policing The Smithsonian. How Might He Threaten Other Museums?
The White House started an audit of the Smithsonian earlier this month. But what about other institutions? It is unclear what legal and financial pressures his...
Tough Time For Theatre At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
“The audience appetite for theatre just isn’t here this year,” said one producer, who has been bringing work for a number of years, adding...
Should The Rocky Statue Stay At The Philadelphia Art Museum?
I’m not arguing for the original statue to go anywhere, but do we need Stallone’s exact replica of it a few hundred feet away...
Film Schools Are All In On AI
While Hollywood writers and directors wage public battles over AI's threat to human creativity -- with more than 400 industry figures recently petitioning the White House...
We Talk About Community All The Time. What Does It Mean?
It’s important to recognise from the outset the uncontroversial point that, like dolphins or chimpanzees, human beings are by nature social animals. The claim...
Choreography’s Secret Weapon: Hands
The hand not only guides the eye but is the body’s finishing touch. When the hands are unintentional and artificial, they become soulless, dragging...
Trump Widens His Attack On Museums
"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE," he wrote. The post emphasized his ongoing...
A Festival Of AI Films Leaves Me Cold
As something of a generative-AI skeptic, watching the program raised all kinds of questions. - Wired
Oh No: People Are Starting To Talk Like ChatGPT
The unnerving thing is that now, with hundreds of millions of people regularly engaging with chatbots, English-speaking humans are starting to talk like the inhuman communicator...
How AI Is Already Transforming Hollywood
Almost every person I spoke with for this story said that AI is already a core part of the “previz” process, where scenes are...
When Museums Are Made To Be Ideological: Remember Germany
Museums were repurposed to emphasize heroic and nationalist themes. Military museums glorified past victories while erasing defeats. Archives were cleansed of inconvenient truths: Jewish...
What If We’re Chasing Happiness The Wrong Way?
What if we only think of happiness as a goal because we have lost sight of other alternatives? What if the heart of the...
Speculation About AI Is Consuming Us
This is the AI era in a nutshell. Squint one way, and you can portray it as the saving grace of the world economy....
Airport Free Libraries Are Finding Fans
There are book carts organized by United Airlines in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Virginia and more; Little Free Libraries in Seattle and Providence, Rhode Island, and “Flybrary” shelves in Punta...
How AI Changes The Whole Notion Of Creating Music
The ability to create lyrics in five seconds, and you can keep refining these things. Oh, I don't like the second version. Can you...
The End Of Handwriting?
US public schools still require that kids be taught handwriting, so it’s not yet a lost art, but there is some evidence that digital...
Judge Strikes Parts Of Florida’s Book Ban Law
The lawsuit was brought by some of the nation's largest book publishers and some of the authors whose books had been removed from central...
Opera Australia Board Chair Out After Criticism From Ex-CEO
Rod Sims has departed as chair of Opera Australia after three years, a decision both he and the company said was voluntary despite an...
What AP Canceling Book Reviews Means For Books Culture
The standard 800-word, single-title review has long been an anemic, disparaged creature surviving off scraps along the edges of the features pages. - Washington...
MSNBC Announces Its Rebrand (Gee, Rebranding Is Hard)
Outside the network, the rebrand became a subject of bemusement and mockery. - The New York Times
Philanthropies Step In To Help Rescue Public Broadcasters
Now, some of those philanthropists are banding together in hopes of staving off that worst-case scenario by providing an emergency $26.5 million cash injection...
The Future Could Be Dazzling. More Likely It’ll Be Mundane
Major changes of all kinds are undoubtedly coming in our future, but they won’t arrive with a firework display or a Hans Zimmer score....
