Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Are DeepFakes So Morally Unsettling?
Deepfakes, for better or worse, are here to stay: apps that make use of this technology are widely available, and will only become more...
Learning Isn’t Enough: Why Robots Will Need Genetic Codes
“I would love to have a robot load up dishes into my dishwasher, and I’d love to have a robot clean my house,” says...
New Report: Who Leads The World’s Ballet Companies
Of 179 artistic directors of major ballet companies, 59 are women (33%), while 119 are men (66%), and 1 is gender expansive (0.6%). Similarly,...
The Power Of A Great Hollywood Actor
The effect that actors have — the source of their power and fascination — is more than just subjective. It’s interpersonal. Watching them act,...
Hollywood’s Progress In Diversity Hits A Speed Bump
“Diversity” may have become an even more popular buzzword in show business circles since the summer of 2020, but the goal of attaining full...
The First Piece Of Music Created By An AI Was In 1956
Decades before today’s artificial intelligence pop stars, Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions was Lejaren Hiller’s piece, described by the New York Times in his 1994 obituary as...
Transformative Director Of NYC’s City Center Steps Down After 18 Years
During her tenure, Arlene Shuler has transformed City Center from a mostly rental space for dance companies to a producing house that commissions and...
Research: Why Sustainable Careers In The Arts Are So Difficult
In the interviews taken as part of my research, I repeatedly found financial constraints underpin three problems causing career unsustainability in the arts. -...
Brooklyn Museum Gets A New President/COO
Trueblood, who starts early next year, previously served as chief of staff at the American Civil Liberties Union and as director of White House...
Welcome To Selfie Wrld – Unique Pix That Aren’t
Selfie Wrld is a chain with 30 franchises from Anchorage to Tampa. Because the props encourage certain poses, your selfies might be identical to...
How Translating Language Opens A Writer’s Mind
In translating, you pose yourself a question—or it is posed to you by the text; you have no satisfactory answer, though you put something...
San Jose Opera Picks A New General Director
Shawna Lucey has some 15 years of opera and theater experience, having worked at such companies as Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Gran...
Why Is A New Moscow Museum Recreating An American Soap Opera?
Every day through March 22, 2022, a team of 80 actors and technicians is carrying out the vision of the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar...
The 13-Year-Old Who’s Become Famous For His Car Pictures
The Woodinville eighth-grader has made a name for himself in the art of “forced perspective” photography, a technique that creates an optical illusion by...
Why The Music They Play While You’re On Hold Is So Infuriating
So where did hold music, the most vanilla of genres, go wrong? When experts have spent decades crafting tinkling tones to placate us, why...
The Collapse Of NeoLiberalism
The challenge for the neoliberals was—how do you design institutions that safeguard the rights of property over borders, in an era when everyone is...
Have We Forgotten The Art Of Listening?
Being able to engage in the practice of mindful, aesthetic and critical listening is as important to democracy as literacy. Yet, in comparison to...
Perplexed Publishers: Social Media Followings Don’t Translate To Book Sales
Followings can affect who gets a book deal and how big an advance that author is paid, especially when it comes to nonfiction. But...
UK Broadcasters Pledge To Go BAME-less
The catch-all description for black, Asian and minority ethnic people will be ditched in favour of the use of more specific terms to describe...
An Irish Plan To Break The Record For Most Nationalities In A Choir
At time of writing, 77 countries have registered. A total of 109 are needed to break the record. But “where better”, asks Brophy, “to...
New TV Network Seeks To Narrow Definition Of America
Americana. American traditions. Safe storytelling. It’s the coded language the network uses about its content, as much as the content itself, that reveals its underlying...
Science: Why Doing Nothing Is Essential To Creativity
The default mode network is also known as the imagination network. This is the brain’s resting-state circuitry—the regions that come online when you’re not...
Can Virtual Reality Fix Work?
It’s easy to virtually collaborate. The hard part, of course, is convincing people that, when it comes to their regular work, staring through Fresnel...
Do Anything But Be A Writer…
The aspiring writers imagine that being an author will bring them happiness, fame and fortune. Szymborska tells them to get a grip. Writing is...
Now That They’ve Done It, Should Book Fairs Be Virtual?
While fairs give you the opportunity to bring your books to the attention of editors and scouts, they are also overwhelmed with choice, so...