Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Educators Still Don’t Know How To Deal With AI And Students
Generative AI has “pretty much ruined the integrity of online classes,” which are increasingly common as schools such as ASU attempt to scale up...
People Are Speeding Up Playback Of Songs. But The Music Sounds Different From How...
Sped-up listening emerged in the early 2000s as “nightcore”. This is now commonplace on our social media apps, where the speed of podcasts, voice...
Can Music Festivals Help Revive San Francisco?
“Ninety percent of the audience is coming from outside San Francisco. And most of these people are not just coming in for the show,...
Woman Arrested For Trying To Fraudulently Sell Graceland
Federal authorities on Friday arrested and charged a Missouri woman in connection with the scheme to fraudulently auction Elvis Presley’s historic Graceland mansion. -...
AI Has Come For Translators
Unsurprisingly, the arrival of fully fledged generative AI has done nothing to improve the situation for commercial translators. But there’s no impact on literary...
Why So Much Renaissance Art Turned Up In American Museums
Rather than collecting domestic works, people of means wanted art with a richer historical past. They were seduced by the appeal of Europe’s long...
Why AI Art Looks So Much “Of A Type”
“We see a lot of fantasy-style art and stock photography, which then trickles into the models themselves,” Zivvy Epstein, a scientist at the Stanford...
The Not Insignificant Costs Of “Hosting” A Banksy
Two disgruntled landlords spoke out in 2021 when Banksy sprayed a large herring gull on to the side of a Suffolk house they let...
The Glacial Pace Of Book Publishing Is Killing It
The dilatoriness that used to be such a feature of the literary world in the days when it relied on the postal service and...
Trend: Couples Are Asking For “Bridgerton” Music For Their Weddings
Some couples ask for music straight from the show, including the Keys song, said Émme, while others look for something more bespoke; one recent...
How Technology Disrupted Our Sense Of Our Bodies
The cyber-utopians of yore were hopelessly naïve. Lockdown showed us why. More screentime means more misery. Thus any future for humanity should ideally rest...
Book On AI Mistakenly Flagged By Publisher’s Filters As AI
Ingram's filters had mistakenly identified the book as having been generated using AI—a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in. - Publishers...
The Most Intricate Map Of A Human Brain Ever Made
This cubic millimeter of tissue has allowed Harvard and Google researchers to produce the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain that the...
A Star Cellist’s Long Road Back From Long COVID
As he began preparing, his body and mind rebelled. He would start shaking as he played. “Not great for anybody,” he said, “let alone...
How Collapsing Art Sales Prices Have Brought Young Artists Down
Over the last year, as money drained from the art market, young art stars around the world experienced dramatic setbacks that submerged their careers....
A Massive Ancient Monument 500 Years Older Than The Pyramids
Located in Brú na Bóinne, a historical park north of Dublin, Ireland, Newgrange is thought to have been built around 3,200 B.C.E., making it...
Netflix Founder Plans To Turn Utah Ski Area Into Sculpture Park
“We aim to transform Powder into a multi-season destination that blends recreation, art, and meaningful connection for our entire community.” - ARTnews
Disney Tries To Get Wrongful Death Lawsuit Dismissed Because Dead Woman Agreed To Disney+...
They argued that by signing up for a free 30-day trial of Disney+ in 2019, and again when purchasing the theme park tickets in 2023 through...
Has Cinemark Found The Right Formula To Get People Back Into Movie Theatres?
The third-largest U.S. theater chain, often seen as a cautious little brother to AMC and Regal, has gained market share since lockdown and its...
Artists Claim Progress In Case Against AI Image Generators
The court will now allow artists to proceed with discovery on claims that AI image generators relying on Stable Diffusion violate both the Copyright...
Goldberger: Architecture Criticism Is In “Chaos”
The transition from print to online journalism has led to "chaos" within architecture criticism that has upsides as well as downsides, author Paul Goldberger...
How To Watch Literature Adapted To Ballet
In the transformation of literature to performance, a story ceases to be something that I can control by holding it between my hands. But...
The Band Trying To Get Its Fan To Do Something About Climate Change
"Can we actually capture that power in the concert space and make use of it to get people to do something more?" said Met,...
Malaysia’s Government Says It’s Done Building Big Skyscrapers
"There are already many skyscrapers, if the private sector wants to build them please do. But, the government does not make this a priority...
Photographer Files Copyright Suit Against Real Estate Blog
Veteran photographer Jennnifer Bouma, of Washington State, has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Zillow Gone Wild. She took the photos in 2021 and copyrighted them...