Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Constructing A Workable Philosophy For Coping With Hard Times
What is needed is a path forward that allows us to cope with tragedy and injustice without abandoning the value of people we care...
A Stroke Disabled Randy Travis From Singing. Now AI Is Helping Him Sing Again
AI gets so close to replicating Travis’s voice that it has, in a sense, brought him back as a full recording artist. The music...
What Role For The Arts In These Times? Perhaps Critics Are Needed Even More...
Our storytelling is necessarily derivative, since we’re responding to works of someone else’s imagination. And yet in how we frame the plays and operas...
Report: UK Careers In The Arts Are Dominated By The Upper Classes
A report from the Sutton Trust found stark overrepresentation in the arts for those from the most affluent backgrounds, which it defines as those...
How One Artist Uses AI To Collaborate
Mr. Leeman was most struck by the cheeky mischief — like the A.I.-generated snubs of the artist’s show that rotated on a wall display,...
Librarians, Increasingly Under Attack, Are Facing Burn Out
Librarians around the country are struggling to reconcile their desire to serve their communities with their need for self-preservation, especially as libraries have become...
Dance Is Increasingly Finding A Home In Museums
Though museums have long featured dance performances, today choreographers and companies are being given long-term residencies, exhibitions of their own with performance elements baked...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning.
In The Theatre, Digital Tickets And Programs Erase The Physical Record Of Attending This piece explores the impact of digital-only tickets and programs,...
In The Theatre, Digital Tickets And Programs Erase The Physical Record Of Attending
"It has become possible to spend an evening on Broadway without handling a physical document. Still, it may seem sensational to say that a...
Reconsidering Antiquities, American Museums And The Ethhics Of It All
The Museum of the Bible is but one more example of “the massive extraction and transfer of cultural heritage objects from the colonized to...
How Might You Use AI In Museums?
The private sector’s reluctance to solve issues that are of great importance to public institutions creates an opportunity to instead build sector-specific tools that...
To What Degree Are Russian Artists Complicit In What Russia Has Become?
“Many Russian writers and historians are complicit in facilitating this war. It is their words and thoughts over the past 350 years that sowed...
Remembering Judith Jamison
Jamison was Ailey’s muse, as complicated as that word is, and she was able to bring his feelings, his ideas to life because of...
The Rise Of The (Ubiquitous) Standing O
“Over the years it has become more and more pervasive to the point where, on those rare instances when a performance doesn’t get a...
Post-Election, Nancy Pelosi Talks About The Importance Of The Arts
“The arts are unifying to our country, and I think it’s going to be the salvation of our country,” she said Saturday at San...
The New Pause-Subscription Streaming Subscriber
New data from subscription analytics provider Antenna offer a deeper look at the subscription pausing habits customers are developing as services like Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ become...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: For months big AI companies have been touting how AI will change things. In the past few weeks, we're starting to see...
Rationalizing: The Art Of Procrastination (As Explained By Artists)
I have guitars in my writing room. But I don’t think of it as “procrastinating” but as, you know, “getting ready.” - LitHub
Prominent Italian Dealer Arrested For Trafficking Thousands Of Stolen Artifacts
Prosecutors say Edoardo Almagià kept a list of trafficked antiquities in his NYC apartment, hidden inside a Renaissance-era chest beneath a marble statue of...
It’s Official: AI Has Broken The Way We Will Find Things Online
Months of prophesying about generative AI have now culminated, almost all at once, in what may be the clearest glimpse yet into the internet’s...
Does More Education Fend Off Cognitive Decline? Study Says No
Although education is linked to better cognitive skills and health, it does not appear to alter the brain’s physical structure in the long run....
Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Music Director Suddenly Quits After Only Four Months
According to a press release, Sergey Bogza has resigned due to “personal, health and family reasons.” - WKBN
Azerbaijan “Repurposes” Copyright To Suppress Public Artwork
By making claim of copyright on images of public art it doesn't like, the country "disappears" images from the public record. - Hyperallergic
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Chief To Step Down
John Limbacher’s time as president, which began in 2016, has been marked by balanced budgets, even through the pandemic, which walloped performing arts organizations across...
Study: Listeners’ Recall Of Earworm Songs Are Extraordinarily Accurate, Down To The Pitch
Of the usable recordings, 44.7% matched the original song’s pitch exactly. Expanding the margin slightly, nearly 69% of recordings were within one semitone of...
