Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Museum Sells Three Cezannes To Fund Operations
Markus Stegmann, the director of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, said that after subtracting buyer’s fees, its parent foundation will reap 42.3 million Swiss...
Brilliant Ancient Codex Detailing Aztec Culture Goes Online
After centuries of remaining largely inaccessible to the public, a rare manuscript featuring 2,500 pages of detailed illustrations and text documenting the history and culture...
Disney CEO Declares New Era For The Company
Mr Iger blamed some of Disney's woes on an emphasis on quantity over quality, as it tried to expand its offerings for the streaming...
Post-Strike Hollywood’s New Compensation Plan
Sag’s hard-won agreement includes performance-based bonuses for actors on streaming shows that become big hits. For the studios represented by the Alliance of Motion...
Yay! The Actors And Writers Strikes Are Over. So Why Is Everyone So Glum?
The mood in the entertainment capital is decidedly mixed, as celebratory feelings compete with resentment over the work stoppage and worries about the business...
Streaming Tech Broke The Hollywood Model. AI Could Obliterate It
Studios may be able to use AI to deepfake performances or write scripts, but given enough runway the tech could be used to cut...
Is There Now Enough Cultural Data To Inform Public Policy?
This article intervenes in this debate by assessing the use and value of the long tail of metadata associated with the UK’s rich cultural...
This Year’s Grammy Nominations Announced
Female acts make up seven of the eight nominees in the top three categories — with SZA leading the pack with nine overall nominations while Taylor Swift, Olivia...
Rhode Island’s Public TV, Public Radio Plan To Merge
“This was not a financial decision for either one of us. I mean we’re two both very strong organizations financially. This is purely about...
How Movie Scores Shape Intensity
These features shape audience expectations through repetition, creating unease when anticipated development fails to emerge. - The Conversation
Comedians: Want To Have A Career? You Have To Be Online
“You have to be a small business first, not just somebody asking for business,” he said. “You have to be your own PR person....
A Year After Their Funding Was Cancelled, Here’s What UK Theatres Have Done
For many, spending months trying to really understand why they have lost investment and feeling they are no closer to an answer has made...
Brooklyn Museum Workers Okay First Contract
The agreement guarantees a 23 percent wage boost over the life of the contract, raising the minimum wage and promising annual raises. The cost...
Why Do Artists Have To Pronounce On Everything?
"The growing tendency of artists to pronounce on everything from microaggressions to macropolitics shows that we need a fundamentally different understanding of the role...
Disney+ Adds Three Million Subscribers, Tops 150M
These results come after a quarter that saw an exodus of 12.5 million Disney+ Hotstar subscriptions amid a strategy shift to move away from...
How Streaming Reinvented TV (Then Broke It Again)
Eliminating the intervening week between episodes meant they could fracture their narratives. They used flashbacks, flashforwards and even flashsideways to begin episodes without totally...
HBO Max Loses 700,000 Subscribers
Despite the huge drop, streaming revenue at Max, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, were up 5 percent—with a 30 percent year-on-year jump...
Scottish Government Proposes Culture Funding Cuts
The £6.6m cut had been reversed earlier this year after a campaign by people working in the Scottish arts but it was reintroduced in...
Jamie Bernstein Talks About Bradley Cooper’s Biopic Of Her Dad
It turns out that Bradley Cooper is one of those all in, passionate, driven, focused people, not unlike Leonard Bernstein. And we didn’t know it...
How Our Brains Store And Retrieve Words
"I’m intrigued by how words are organized in our mental dictionaries. Everyone’s mental dictionary is a little bit different. And I’m even more intrigued...
The Illustrators Being Replaced By AI
“The funny thing is, in so much science fiction it was theorized that robots, A.I., all this stuff was going to take over the...
New AI Can Identify AI-Created Writing With Accuracy
Using machine learning, the detector examines 20 features of writing style, including variation in sentence lengths, and the frequency of certain words and punctuation...
Eric Booth: How Being A Teaching Artist Works
When activating people’s innate artistry, teaching artists can guide that energy toward many goals. My analysis of employment in the field finds seven major...
Rebelling Against The Traditional Book Club
Though traditional book clubs have been a fixture of American social life for decades, some bibliophiles think they have lost the plot. These bookworms...
Remembering Robert Brustein And The Power of Authority And Insight
One didn’t read Brustein to determine which Broadway shows to buy tickets to. One read Brustein to understand a play or musical in its...