Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Get The Popcorn: The Battle To Buy Warner Bros. Is Pure Entertainment
You couldn’t avoid the irony: The drama for how traditional Hollywood will be devoured is now as entertaining as anything Hollywood could ever come...
Study: Australian Theatre Pay Lags
Drawing on data from 92 Australian performing arts organisations with annual turnovers of between $250,000 and $4 million, the survey charts the persistently lagging...
Two Generations Of Rothschilds Battle Over Their “Mini-Louvre” Art Collection
The lawsuits centre on the family’s extensive collection of furniture, priceless historic objects and paintings held at the baronial domain, the Chateau de Pregny...
AI Is Causing Havoc With Recipe Bloggers
The AI had taken elements of similar recipes from multiple creators and Frankensteined them into something barely recognizable. In one memorable case, the Google AI failed to...
North Carolina County Dissolves Library Board Over Decision On Book About A Transgender Boy
Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program at free-expression advocacy group PEN America, said Randolph County’s decision to dissolve its library board...
Virtually No Support In UK For Government’s “Opt-Out” Plan For AI And Artists
Only 3% of people backed the government’s initial preferred tech company-friendly option, which was to require artists and copyright holders to actively opt out...
Critics’ Consensus: This Year’s Best Shows On Broadway
“Liberation” was the only clear-cut consensus choice among the professional critics, as you’ll see below. - New York Theatre
Museum Tracker: This Year’s Most-Favored Artists
A narrow band of stars feature in a lot of shows, followed by a long tail of artists with much more limited visibility. Only...
Angelinos Are Flocking To LA Bars… To Listen To Academic Lectures
Attendees hear thought-provoking talks from experts on wide-ranging topics such as Taylor Swift’s use of storytelling in her music, how AI technology is being...
Building Boom: A New Generation Of Opera Houses
The world is now witnessing a renewed investment in large-scale cultural venues that aim to restore music’s physical and communal dimensions. These projects attempt...
How Teachers Are Trying To Get Around AI Chatbots
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence...
How The Tate Museum Lost Its Way
It’s become genuinely hard to understand what Tate’s priorities are when it chooses artists for the annual Turbine Hall commission. And the Turner prize...
The Best Visual Art Of 2025
In large and small shows under-the-radar artists surfaced and were hot. At the same time, the arrival of a new political order firing off...
Librarians Are Struggling To Keep Up With Bad AI Queries
Around 15 percent of all the reference questions received by her staff are written by generative AI, some of which include imaginary citations and...
Artists Protest San Francisco Airport Museum’s Use Of AI Art
Nettrice Gaskins’ artwork sparked a passionate discussion about AI Thursday when a video of the exhibit posted to the Bay Area subreddit drew hundreds of comments...
AI Can Now Analyze Language Better Than Humans
“It’s only a matter of time before we are able to build models that generalize better from less data in a way that is...
We Don’t Need To Make The Humanities “Relevant”
The humanities, which value rigorous inquiry for its own sake, will always be at odds with a world that thinks this way; that’s why...
Christmas Music Has Become A License To Print Money
Spotify observes “the first big jump” in holiday-song streaming on Sept. 1, she noted. Activity ticks up again the next month; holiday playlist creation...
The Woeful State Of Arts PR. Here’s Why It Matters
On the inside of my job, lousy PR is one of the biggest signs that an institution is struggling. Outreach goes ignored, follow-up is...
What Happens To You Creatively After You’ve Won Success?
These big breaks and large prizes are remarkable things that can provide incredible opportunities, but there is so often another side to that success. -...
Fred Child To Lead Portland Classical Music Station
He is best known for his 25-year run as host of American Public Media’s national classical music program “Performance Today.” Child, who will relocate...
Jake Heggie’s New Opera: A Historic 1976 Wine Competition
His one-act opera "The Judgement of Paris" is set to make its world premiere at Festival Napa Valley at Charles Krug Winery in St....
David Ellison’s Dangerous Play For Warner Bros.
David Ellison was able to ascend to Paramount moguldom thanks in part to his closeness with Mr. Trump, and now he is trying to...
Profound Changes In Canada’s Cultural Economy
It found that Manitoba’s cultural sector produces $1,010 worth of cultural goods and services per person, one of the highest per-capita levels in Canada....
The Benefits Of Tolerant Cultures
A tolerant person is one who does not interfere with other people, even if he thinks they are wrong, but is prepared to let...
