Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Self Therapy Is Killing The Memoir
In certain bodies, to write about yourself at all is already to be pathologized. But there’s a difference between creative work conferring self-knowledge on...
How The Instagram Photo Dump Is Changing Its Culture
Today’s Instagrammer no longer chooses one representative photo at a time, creating a grid of images just so; instead, users, especially those belonging to...
How Jimmy Carter Supported The Arts
Carter’s appreciation for the arts began at an early age and has expanded over time. In his autobiography, Why Not The Best?, he wrote that his...
200-Year-Old Brooklyn Museum Rebrands
Does introducing a new logo in vibrant colors across various forms of signage, digital campaigns and merchandise equate to a brand reset? Perhaps not...
Turns Out The Humanities Are Hard To Kill
The humanities, as it turns out, are pretty hard to kill—though the twentieth century made a good fist of it. Educational modernizers in England...
Noguchi Museum Fires Three Workers For Wearing Keffiyehs
On Sunday, September 8, at least 60 people including former workers and supporters protested outside the Queens institution and handed out flyers to inform...
We May Soon Recover Lost Texts Lost For Millenia. They Could Change How We...
The problem is more complex than the fact that many texts were lost to the annals of history. Most people just see the most...
Is It Time To Change How Boards Work In Arts Organizations?
When the Orchestra needed to take decisive action amid a crisis, the CEO-Board relationship broke down very quickly and led to devastating outcomes for...
Study Of Philosophy Helped Democratize 19th Century America. Now Philosophy Studies Are Dying
The circumstances for studying philosophy in a college or university setting, democratised by the post-Second World War expansion of higher education, are in the...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: One of the potential intriguing uses of AI for artists is the ability to create AI versions of themselves that can be...
Orlando Fringe Opts For Group Therapy
The new leadership structure is dubbed a "tri-directorate model" with three equal directors at the top each with distinct areas of specialization, as opposed...
Audible Will Allow Authors To AI Clone Their Voices To Read Their Audio Books
Amazon will begin inviting a small group of Audible narrators to train AI-generated voice clones of themselves this week, with the aim of speeding...
Australian Government Proposes Banning Children From Social Media
The government will soon trial age verification technology to restrict children from opening social media accounts by the end of 2024, blocking children from...
How To Create Things? New Movie On Brian Eno Takes On The Question
How should we create things? The word “should” isn’t quite right, since there’s no correct way to be creative; still, when you’re actually creating...
This Year’s National Book Award Longlist
The list includes two début young adult novels, one writer who has been previously honored by the National Book Awards—Randy Ribay, the author of...
James Earl Jones Gave Permission To Use AI To Create Performances After His Death
It’s a particularly interesting question when it comes to voice acting specifically. The full recreation of vocals may feel further along than the full...
New Arts Rights Group Aims To Battle Inequities Inside Museum Culture
“We saw museums leaning into reactionary methods: colleagues doing token hires, museums using artists as cover, and others being ousted from museum associations. There...
How Might The Art Of Dance Reshape The Business Of Dance?
What does dance bring to a conversation about creative administration? Well, to start, dance artists have an embodied understanding of dynamic systems. The human...
What’s Wrong With “Extreme Audit Culture”
Scholars around the world are concerned about the effects of an extreme audit culture in higher education, one in which researchers’ productivity is continually...
The American Right Attacks Wikipedia
While most of the planet sees Wikipedia as a generally reliable source for basic facts on everything from Ansel Adams to ZZ Top, it...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's top five stories from the past day. As usual, the rest of the stories we have collected are down...
Actor James Earl Jones, 93
The actor amassed nearly 200 screen credits during his brilliant 60-year career. - Deadline
Montreal Closed Streets To Cars. Pedestrians Came. The City Was Enlivened
As of this summer, eleven streets in total have been transformed into seasonal pedestrian-only destinations, creating almost ten kilometres of walkable car-free surfaces across...
Charles Ives Was Born 150 Years Ago. Why Are We Conflicted About His Music?
Even our orchestras and instrumentalists perform him far less than they should. If it follows that the present Ives sesquicentenary is insufficiently observed, that...
Can Language Unify Black Culture?
Everyone knows what it means to capitalize “Black.” But how does it feel? On your tongue, on the page? If we act like affect...