Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Not Just Top Gun: US Military Has Had Editorial Control Over Thousands Of Movies
The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have exercised direct editorial control over more than 2,500 films and television shows. These discoveries raise questions...
First Look: Pix Of Bradley Cooper As Leonard Bernstein
“I (told Spielberg), ‘I always felt like I could play a conductor, but may I research the material and see if I can write...
Artists Boycott Marquee British Art Show
The British Art Show is being staged at four venues across the city. But 26 artists have pulled out in protest after accusations of...
Artist Pays For Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Painting. Now The Painting Is Worth $272,000
The sandwich, priced at $1.95, was made with fresh bread from a local Italian bakery, aged cheddar cheese and a substantial smear of butter...
Orchestra League Launches New Commissioning Program
The initiative announced on Thursday will build on those efforts, pairing each of the six composers with five ensembles. The program, which will cost...
Stiff Sentence For Artworld Fraudster Rattles Art World
In other words, the sentence was meant to scare off or inhibit potential fraudsters with the threat of substantial incarceration time. With it, Judge...
Meet Pitchbot – Media Criticism Through Parody
With his account, NYT Pitchbot imagines the Times formula for stories as a kind of wheezing algorithm, a bot churning out contrarian headlines and half-baked hot...
Imagination Is Critical For Learning. So Why Don’t We Teach It?
Studying the imagination is the most exciting and accurate way to heal the terminal divide between the sciences and the humanities. But, more importantly,...
The Latest AI Superpower? Describe An Image And The Computer Will Create It
In each case, the text at the bottom of the image was the prompt fed into the program, and the picture above, the output....
How Pacific Northwest Ballet Is Progressing With Diversity
“The company is more racially diverse today than it was in 2020, when about 30% of the company was BIPOC. Racial identity should only...
Canada Tries To Make A Case For Internet Regulation Because Of… The Arts?
The emphasis: that material cultural and live performance follow the virtual. It’s an odd hierarchy to be asserting to an arts gathering emerging from...
Today’s Students — The Problem With “Excellent Sheep”
Excellent sheephood is inherently competitive. Its purpose is to vault you into the ranks of society’s winners, to make sure that you end up...
Denmark Imposes Tax On Streamers To Support Local Programming
Lawmakers in Denmark have agreed global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and Disney, must pay a levy of 6% of their revenue...
Meet Glimmerglass’s New Director
Robert Ainsley succeeds Francesca Zambello, who led Glimmerglass, a summer festival of opera and theater, for more than a decade. In an interview, Ainsley...
New Technology Makes Lost Cities Of The Amazon Visible From The Air
Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient...
Do The Words We Use Really Change The Way We Think?
John McWhorter: For example, the pathway from “crippled” to “handicapped” to “disabled” to “differently abled.” New words ultimately don’t leave freighted ideas behind; they...
Of Funding, Arts, And Innovation
Pre-COVID, Boston’s arts organizations had a pragmatic approach—they prioritized ticket sales over experimentation. As a result, Boston’s arts sector produces fewer new works than...
Melding Indigenous Music With Avant Garde Experimenting
The record is an unusual proposition: A rare fusion of pow wow—an Indigenous culture of music and dance—and experimental electronic production. Holding it all...
Casualty Of War: Russian Artists, Scientists, Creatives, Are Leaving
How low has Putin driven Russian culture? Here are two indications. Thousands of scientists and other intellectuals along with hundreds of ballet dancers and other...
Brilliant Scientific Breakthroughs Are The Product Of Their Context And Culture
The scientific revolutions of the last four centuries took place not just at the same time as political and religious conflict, invasion and enslavement,...
Basquiat Was A Subversive Artist. Now He’s Just A Brand
Sanitized and caricatured by corporate marketing schemes, Basquiat’s work has been defanged. Today, Basquiat the artist has become Basquiat the brand. - Jacobin
What Guston’s Cartoon Klan Tells Us
Guston didn’t know what to say about the Klan or about racial violence, except that he knew to fear it as a Jew, and...
The Conflicts Of Ego It Takes To Be A Writer
The act of writing poses a predicament for anyone who recognizes the temptations of pride and self-aggrandizement. We simultaneously desire to attract recognition and...
LA MoCA Imports New Chief Curator From Tate Modern
An L.A. native, Clara Kim has been senior curator of international art at Tate Modern since 2016, where she organized an acclaimed survey of...
Edmonton Symphony Music Director Departs For Germany
What everyone agrees on is that this very talented and still very young conductor will have the kind of opportunities in Germany that simply...
