Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Banksy Tree Mural Defaced With White Paint Days After It Appeared
Despite being surrounded by a protective metal fence, white paint was thrown onto the artwork and discovered by local residents on the morning of...
Machine Breakthrough In Reading Ancient Texts
Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 columns of ancient Greek text from within a carbonized papyrus...
Silicon Valley Disruption Comes To A Books Model
Authors Equity brings Silicon Valley–style startup disruption to the business of books. It has a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network...
The Artworld Hoax That Fooled Virginia Woolf
For most of their adult lives, the two women employed an elaborate hoax in which Hepworth’s paintings were exhibited and sold under Preece’s name....
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Leisure reading has been linked to a range of good academic and professional outcomes—as well as difficult to fully explain. But a chief factor seems to be the...
Review Of Arts Council England As Agency Under Fire
The UK scientist Mary Archer will scrutinise how Arts Council England (ACE) distributes public subsidies as part of a wide-ranging review overseen by the...
How Universal Music Group Is Lobbying On AI
UMG played an instrumental role in bringing together a coalition of 150-plus organizations both in and outside the industry last year for the Human Artistry...
What It Was Like To Be Martha Graham
Graham began her aesthetic experiments some 40 years before government arts funding was a gleam in anyone’s eye. The dancers sewed their own costumes,...
New Zealand’s Museums Are In Crisis
What the research revealed was an overworked workforce overly reliant on volunteers, snowballing costs and shrinking funding. Small museums and galleries in the provinces...
Warhol Museum Director To Step Down
Patrick Moore joined the Warhol Museum as the director of development in 2011, and assumed other leading administrative roles at the museum before being...
What LitBlogging Turned Into
In short, the literary weblog may have prepared the way for a critical writing about literature online that not just rivalled but eventually exceeded...
Report: Many Of World’s Biggest Museums Have Recovered To Pre-COVID Visitor Numbers
The number of people visiting the most-visited 100 museums fell from 230 million in 2019 to just 54m in 2020. Although the total number of...
Tim Page Remembers Byron Janis
For years, Mr. Janis was one of the best-known classical musicians in the world, playing major stages from Philadelphia to Paris. - Washington Post
Why Are An Increasing Number Of Writers Okay With Censoring Other Writers?
The spectacle of writers refusing to entertain the work of other writers in the name of freedom never fails to dispirit, though at this...
Site Clones 3000 Deepfake Pop Voices For Use In Music
The site, which has described itself as the “#1 platform for making high quality AI covers in seconds,” has become big enough to warrant...
British Museum Had Record Number Of Visitors In 2023
Figures showed the South Kensington attraction had its best-ever year, with a 22% increase in visitors to 5,688,786. The most-visited outdoor attraction was Windsor...
The 20-Year-Old Transcribing Performances Into Detailed Notation
George Collier takes snippets of videos from live performances by well-known artists like Wynton Marsalis and Celine Dion, or bedroom musicians who’ve posted clips...
A Statistical Portrait Of Artists In Canada
The 202,900 professional artists in Canada represent 1.0% of the national labour force. A finer analysis shows that 1 in every 102 Canadian workers...
EU Passes Landmark AI Legislation, And Will Regulate Use Of Copyright Material
The act places a number of legal and transparency obligations on tech companies and AI developers operating in Europe, including those working in the...
Gen-Z’s Poor Mental Health Comes From Smartphone Culture. We Should Stop It
Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental...
AI – Understanding Versus Finding Patterns
How can these powerful systems beat us in chess but falter on basic math? This paradox reflects more than just an idiosyncratic design quirk....
Will Rethinking Liberal Arts From A Conservative Tradition Make Them Better?
Classical education is premised on the idea that there is objective truth, and that the purpose of school is to set kids on a...
Remembering America’s Most Notorious Art Heist
The legacy of the heist is always apparent to museum visitors who, decades later, still confront vacant frames on the gallery walls where paintings once hung. -...
How Private Equity Companies Are Wrecking The Music Industry
Private equity — the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising the mortality rates at the nursing homes it acquires — is making money by gobbling up the...
Spotify Promoting Audiobooks Using Some Music Industry Techniques
Combined with the promo page and countdown clock, the feature allows authors to engage in fandom in a way that is more typical of...