Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Its Recently-Hired Executive Director
Before leading the festival, Gabriella Calicchio had more than 25 years of experience in the arts, including as managing director of Minneapolis’ nonprofit Children’s...
Fish Out Of Water: A Working Class Writer At The Iowa Writers’ Workshop
"Before their arrival, my classmates had been editorial assistants and reporters and interns for major publications. I had been working nights as a package...
Why Culture Desperately Needs Better Digital Infrastructure
When AI systems learn about Canadian culture, history, and events, they should be learning from trusted, structured, Canadian sources - not filtered scraps from...
How Detroit Reinvented Through The Arts
Fuelled by an enterprising spirit born from recent adversity, many have found new ways to inject life into their communities and cultural arenas. In...
So Why Does Everyone Seem To Be Identifying With Imposter Syndrome?
The phrase “impostor syndrome” often elicits a fierce sense of identification, especially from millennial and Gen X women. When I put out a call...
Netflix To Start Streaming Broadcast Channels
If it proves successful, Netflix and TF1’s partnership could unlock the door for more linear channels to air on streaming services, including in other...
What AI Art Looks Like When It Hasn’t Trained On Artists’ Work
Depending on your perspective, Broad’s art is either a pioneering display of pure artificial creativity, a look into the very soul of AI, or...
AI Bots Are Scouring Our Museum and Library Collections. Is Our Culture Being Stolen?
"For example, one respondent’s online collection included a semi-private archive that normally received a handful of visitors per day. That archive was discovered by...
How California Became The Home Of Innovation For Music Technology
San Francisco ‘60s utopian counterculture, psychedelic drugs, defying authority, breaking rules, and a general sense of severing from the past for a brighter future...
How Medieval Monks Spread Culture And Learning
The importance of monasteries for the emergence of the Renaissance can hardly be overstated. Their number increased many times over from the sixth to...
What, Exactly, Defines Real Creativity?
What is the difference between great and mediocre art? Why do some songs, poems, and paintings move us profoundly, while others—even if they impress...
Use Of AI In Movies, TV, Becoming Widespread
Even amid widespread vocal pushback against generative artificial intelligence, industry leaders say its use in film and TV is slowly becoming mainstream. More filmmakers...
Our Notions Of Copyright May Be Standing In The Way Of Creativity
Who, exactly, owns the outputs of a generative model? The user who crafted the prompt? The developer who built the model? The artists whose...
How Our Reading Is Changing
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of...
How AI Can Refocus History
Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of large-language models with a combination of fascination and horror,...
Report: More Than Half Of Americans Now Get Their News From Social Media
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps...
In May, Streaming Viewership Beat Broadcast And Cable Viewership For The First Time Ever
Streaming accounted for 44.8% of viewership via TV screens during the month, the report said, while broadcast (20.1%) and cable (24.1%) together represented 44.2%...
The Cultural Implications Of The UK National Gallery Rehang
A rehang tends to elicit strong reactions from anyone with a stake in the collection – and in the case of a public gallery,...
How The Fake Research Publishing Game Works
The paper mills have various techniques to take advantage of desperate or lazy researchers and to trick publishers: some operate as a marketplace in...
Defining The Art Of Genius
Generally, we want geniuses to be good with their minds rather than with their hands, but we can make an exception for a surgeon...
Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum Opening Is Delayed Due To “Regional Developments”
“In light of the current regional developments, it has been decided to postpone the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum,” the GEM explained...
Opera Montreal Picks A New General Director
The company announced that the Board of Directors chose Jen-Pierre Primiani, who currently serves as Chief Philanthropy Officer, for the position and will begin...
Rural Public Media Stations Will Close Or Be Greatly Reduced As Federal Support Goes...
“That would mean an almost immediate disappearance of almost half our operating budget,” David Gordon, executive director of KEET in Eureka, California, said of...
The Urge To Isolationism Isn’t New
This exaltation of self-sufficiency and the downgrading of the value of trading links amounts to a profound break from the orthodoxy of globalisation –...
Figuring Out The “Ulysses” Phenomenon
The fate of Ellmann and his Joyce biography highlights the disorienting transformation of literature as a field of study. The canons dismantled during the...
