Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Art Market Is Plunging And Sotheby’s Is Scrambling
Sotheby’s had been riding a rollicking art market wave in recent years, bringing in at least $7 billion in sales annually and setting record-level...
A Gala Of Movies Created By AI
In some ways, the event had the trappings of a normal short film festival. There were awards and prizes, as well as appetizers, poke...
In Qatar: Library As National Cultural Museum
"In a library, you create your own narrative. The material in the Heritage Library is of such a caliber that it could be considered...
Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Power Of Words: No Wonder They Want To Ban Books
"I see politicians in Colorado, in Tennessee, in South Carolina moving against my own work, tossing books I’ve authored out of libraries, banning them...
Research: People Can Change Their Personality Over Time
People can intentionally shape the traits they need to be successful in the lives they want. That’s contrary to the popular belief that your...
San Francisco Symphony Opening Night Gala Met With Protests About Budget Cuts
Elliott Encarnacion, a Chorus member and AGMA governor, accused the Symphony of “severely mishandling their funds,” particularly regarding the handling of the strike that forced the...
London Paper Plans To Have AI Based On Legendary Critic Review Art
London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial intelligence. Two sources said AI Sewell has been assigned to review...
The Increasingly Hapless West Coast Orchestra And Its Puzzling Real Estate Dreams
The plan for a new recital hall is especially puzzling because, in addition to the building’s own Zellerbach facilities, the Civic Center area is...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: One of the biggest changes in the past 20 years in culture has been the evolution of the relationships between artists and...
Statue Of Johnny Cash Unveiled In The US Capitol
Cash, whose statue is located in the Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, is the...
Why Have Pop Music Concert Ticket Prices Spiraled Up?
Overall, the average ticket price for the top 100 tours around the world was £101 last year, up from £82 in 2022, according to...
California Passes One-Click Unsubscribe Law
Companies have been accused of signing people up for subscriptions without their consent, renewing their subscriptions without notice, and imposing a gantlet of obstacles...
Why Adult Interest In Participating In Ballet Is Soaring
Interest in adult ballet has increased by 75% over the last three to five years... And the number of adult ballet summer intensive programs...
Hollywood Is Stuck In A Nostalgia Rut
The resurrection of dead franchises and the creation of new ones based on recognizable intellectual properties all target one core emotion: nostalgia. Hollywood is...
How Fans Have Taken Control Of Beloved Franchises
The use of parody and humour to pour scorn on the series is a common practice among fans. New digital technologies like artificial intelligence...
Inside Trimpin’s Sound World
“The kind of idea in my work with music dealing with three parameters — timbre, pitch, and time,” said Trimpin. “But my interest...
How You Make Decisions: Going With Your Gut?
"My recent research findings suggest that people are often well-advised to decide intuitively, in terms of how it makes them feel. There is emerging...
Fandom Is Increasingly Becoming A Problem
Fandom has changed over the last decade to become more of a discourse, but while celebs have had to hear more and more of...
Good morning
If you've read ArtsJournal for very long, you know I have a fascination with stories that explore how creativity works. This story from the...
Longtime Houston Ballet Executive Director Steps Down
James Nelson who began his career as a dancer and went on to to serve in a succession of roles with Houston Ballet: company...
Does “The Show Must Go On” Create Unhealthy Workplaces?
Theatre workers across the sector have now described to The Stage how they feel pressure to "power through" all but the most extreme health...
Learning To Appreciate Neurodivergent Reaction To Art
"Listening to you also reminded me of my own adult son, who is autistic. When Ezra was a child, my wife and I sometimes...
Study: Why Public Media Needs More Stable Funding
The CSRL study says most local NPR stations lack the resources to systematically gather and report on local news, and in turn, spend too much of...
Critic Frederic Jameson, 90
For decades, Mr. Jameson’s voluminous work — more than 30 books and edited collections as well as reams of journal articles — has been...
Creative People Prioritize Information Differently Than Others
My work explores the ways in which creative individuals prioritise information differently to their less creative counterparts. In one of our studies, my research collaborators...