Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What Did The 20th Century Novel Accomplish? Anything?
The genre’s masterworks urge us to set a slower pace, savoring what each novelist puts on the table and realizing, as we push back...
Artists Ponder UK’s Proposed ‘Right to Personality’ Plan For Copyright
Decades-old copyright legislation varies by region but is generally too outdated to be reliably applied to the new challenges presented by generative A.I. This...
What Baryshnikov Has Done With His Fame
It is not absurd to imagine another world in which he might have followed that fame toward full-time Hollywood stardom, or guest appearances on...
UK Proposes Letting AI Companies Train On Copyrighted Work
Under the proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt...
That Emptiness In Which You Can’t Feel Anything
If you feel empty in this way, you might find that bad news doesn’t make you feel upset, that good news doesn’t make you...
Spain Returns Art Seized By The Old Franco Regime After The Spanish Civil War
The works of art had been gathered and stored by Spain’s former government after Franco, an army general, participated in a 1936 military coup...
The Algorithms That Have Taken Over Our Culture
Part of the fixation on cultural algorithms is a product of the insecure position in which cultural gatekeepers find themselves. - The Atlantic
Five Museum Shows That Shaped 2024’s Zeitgeist
We’ve selected a few that managed to hit a collective nerve or stir debate, sometimes perhaps revealing more about our current zeitgeist than the...
Brazilian Judge Orders Adele Song Be Pulled Worldwide Over Plagiarism Claim
Preliminary injunction, obtained on Monday by AFP, orders Sony and Universal to stop “immediately and globally, from using, reproducing, editing, distributing or commercializing the...
How Thailand Became A Refuge For Myanmar Artists
Since the 1 February 2021 coup in Myanmar created a new generation of fugitive political activists – among them artists, filmmakers, musicians and creative...
How The Digital Age Is Reimagining Visual Culture
If Pop art recognised the media image as our new ‘nature’ and Minimalism was an art of phenomenological sensibility, Electric Op proposes perception as an artifact...
The Year Of The “Creators”
These days, the favored term for an Internet powerhouse is “creator,” and in the course of this year a threshold of creatordom was passed....
Dance Critic Arlene Croce, 90
Croce was loved for her wit — but not by those she skewered. Her criticism could be wicked, even merciless. She once described the...
How Netflix Destroyed The Movie And TV Businesses
Netflix, which first emerged as a destroyer of video stores, has developed a powerful business model to conquer television, only to unleash its strange...
British Columbia, Losing Film Production, Increases Tax Subsidies
Premier David Eby said the Production Services Tax Credit — which goes to international productions — will increase from 28% to 36%. The domestic credit will...
Ross Douthat: I’m Worried About Pop Culture
I’m worried about pop culture — worried that the relationship between art and commerce isn’t working as it should, worried that even if the...
What The Ubiquitous Marketing Of “Wicked” Says About Our Culture
“Wicked” went even bigger, teaming up with over 400 brands to ensure a saturation that would be, in the words of Universal Pictures’ chief marketing officer,...
How YouTube Is Overtaking TV
YouTube’s increasing incursion into the living room highlights just how ubiquitous the platform has become. After all, it is the world’s second-biggest search engine,...
Critics Say Italy’s Government Is “Interfering” In The Arts
Since Meloni came to power more than two years ago, there has been debate in Italy over whether her government is meddling in the...
Muti Opines: Didn’t Know Who Klaus Mäkelä Is
“I have my opinions, but I will not tell you. I didn’t want to take part in the search, so I was completely out...
If Reading Helps Shape Our Brains What Happens When We Stop?
Will people's preference for video over text affect our brains or our evolution as a species? What kind of brain structure do good readers...
Why The Art World Has Been Taking Another Look At Rococo
So what is Neo-Rococo, really? It’s a contemporary movement that merges the delicate pastels, ornamental elegance, and sensuality of 18th-century Rococo with modernist abstraction...
Peter Schjeldahl’s Death Marked The End Of An Era
Schjeldahl’s death was not just the death of a person but of a whole approach to writing about art. It was an approach that...
Nicole Ritchie And Paris Hilton’s Excellent Opera?
It’s an enlightening moment, one of many it turns out, in “Paris & Nicole,” a three-episode lark about Hilton and Richie reuniting to write...
Canberra Youth Theatre Takes A Drastic Step To Survive
The decision to pause all productions in 2025 will have a significant impact on performance opportunities for young people. It also means a major...
