Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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...
Neuroscience Unlocks How Our Brains React To Movie Scenes
Using machine learning on data from the Human Connectome Project, the research mapped areas that respond to diverse audio-visual stimuli. The findings could inform...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Here are this weekend's highlights:
How The Pandemic Has Reshaped Cultural PhilanthropyThe pandemic spurred a shift in arts funding, with donors increasingly focused...
This Week’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: An eventful week. 'Nuff said. Here are this week's AJ highlights:
Cal Shakes Veterans Mourn, And Remember Former artists of the California Shakespeare...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Since the early days of the internet, people have been trying to figure out how our screen lives compare to our real-life...
Popular Glastonbury Tries A New Scheme For Online Ticket Sales After An Increasingly Chaotic...
This year they will now visit a holding page before the start of the ticket sale, “at least a few minutes before the sale...
Sotheby’s Sells AI-Created Artwork For $1M
On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the humanoid robot artist Ai-Da sold for $1,084,800 during the auction house’s Digital...
Shepard Fairey On How Art Can Connect Us To Our Better Selves
Art is capable of connecting with the best part of who we are as humans and stimulating the part of us that recognizes the...
Howard Sherman: Struggling With How To Appreciate Opera
The blurring of lines that brought me to the opera voluntarily, willingly and with the same anticipation I bring to theatre suggests there may...
China’s Movie Box Office Is Collapsing
A prolonged fallow period extending through the summer has left the Beijing film industry wringing its hands, wondering whether a lasting shift in the...
A Time Of Reckoning For Media In A New Trump Era?
There are blaring red warnings signs for traditional media everywhere you look. Ratings for the broadcast and cable news channels saw steep declines in ratings from...
New Science Is Revising Stories Of The People Of Ancient Pompeii
Scientists analyzed ancient DNA extracted from skeletal remains and pieced together fragments of five people’s identities, rewriting the romantic stories of who they were...
The US Archivist Is Accused Of Whitewashing American History
U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought...
Has Our Technology Collapsed Our Ability To Experience Awe?
Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many...