Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Replica Shop: Paris Atelier Makes Exacting Reproductions Of Some Of The World’s Most...
The atelier’s commissions have included replacing a third of Versailles’s garden statues with copies created from marble-dust resin and supplying Jeff Koons with five...
Eight Ways Artists Have Incorporated AI Into Their Work
A Ditto Music survey of over 1,200 artists found that nearly 60% use AI in their projects. Tools like AIVA generate compositions based on specific parameters, replicating...
How Hollywood’s Struggles Are Impacting LA’s Economy
When the strikes ended, workers in Hollywood hoped their schedules would finally fill up again. But for many people, things only got worse. -...
Apply Now: Canada’s National Arts Centre Mentorship Program
Play in section with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra: June 12 to July 1, 2025
Research: How Walmart Impoverishes Communities
On net, they conclude, Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all....
The Year Peter Gelb Declared War On Critics
Believing that you possess a perfect understanding of what the people want is a poor way to run an opera company—or any organization, up...
Spotify Doesn’t Care About Music As Long As It’s Content
Unlike a record label, a tech company doesn’t care whether we’re hooked on the same hit on repeat or lost in a three-hour ambient...
Berlin Cuts €130 Million From Its Arts Budget
The budget cut is a departure from Berlin’s previous plan to inject the city’s cultural spaces with new capital. In 2021, Germany approved a...
K-Pop Has Been Fueling South Korean Protests
The sight of young people moving to K-pop’s electrifying beat has become part of the drama of this protest movement. Protest organisers are blasting out K-pop...
Handel’s “Messiah’s” Rocky Start
When the librettist obtained a copy of the score, in early 1743, he didn’t like it. “His Messiah has disappointed me,” he wrote to...
How UK Theatre Got To This Point (20 Years That Defined A Crisis)
Twenty years ago marked a turning point for the arts in the UK. And not a good one. - The Stage
Florence Open’s Vasari’s 16th Century Corridor Built For Medicis
The corridor, designed by the Renaissance-era architect Giorgio Vasari, was commissioned in 1565 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, the second duke of Florence, and...
Canada Proposes Resale Royalties For Visual Artists
Monday’s fall economic statement included the proposed update to the copyright act, which will give Canadian visual artists a slice of the proceeds if...
Is San Francisco’s Arts Scene Dying or Thriving
“There’s been a lot of conversation about a false doom narrative … surrounding our city’s art scene. I counter that assertion. I want to...
How Trump Used Comedy To Win
While Jimmy Kimmel cries and Jon Stewart rants, the right wing in the U.S. has successfully depicted itself as the new home for free speech and cutting...
The Frightening Power Of AI Agents To Manipulate Us
This is a moment that philosophers have warned us about for years. Before his death, philosopher and neuroscientist Daniel Dennett wrote that we face...
Another Way To Review The Year? Twelve Objects That Caught Our Attention
I’ve set out to perform the annual ritual of assessing and unpacking the year gone by through the objects that captured our attention. Here, then, is...
Lithuania Banned “Nutcracker” In Solidarity With Ukraine. Now It’s Back…
Darius Kuolys who was the first culture minister after a 1990 declaration of independence, said it was obvious that the Kremlin often exploited culture...
Botto, The AI Artist, Has Already Made $4 Million. Now He’s Getting A Personality
Botto is a decentralized semi-autonomous artistic agent created in 2021 by the German artist Mario Klingemann; Simon Hudson, a media entrepreneur; and Ziv Epstein, a computer scientist and designer....
How Encyclopedia Britannica Evolved (And Thrives) In The Age Of AI
Britannica has figured out not only how to survive, but also how to do well financially. Jorge Cauz, its chief executive, said in an...
Lin Manuel Miranda’s Daunting Task: Reinventing “Lion King”
The songs form the basis of the highest-grossing musical in the history of Broadway. Thirty years on they remain embedded in our collective consciousness, so Lin-Manuel...
When Arlene Croce Took On Bill T. Jones (When the Critic Famously Didn’t See...
In her contentious essay, Croce, one of the finest dance critics of the 20th century, railed against what she called victim art: “By working...
Times Square Was Turned Into A Giant Immersive Experience
Suddenly, at exactly 11:57 p.m., 92 electronic billboards all around Times Square stopped pulsating with ads for Coca-Cola, Broadway plays, and fashion brands, and...
Publishing World Divided On Using AI To Make Books
Spines said it aims to help a million authors bring their stories to life—so they can focus on writing great books while A.I. handles...
Four Things Humans Still Do Better Than AI
In speaking to hundreds of experts, consumers, and skeptics of AI over the past few years, four strongholds for humans keep coming up. -...