Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Young People Won’t Read Books? That’s Just Not True!
"The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences. So when we force-feed yet another vanilla canonical...
Darren Walker Is New Director Of The National Gallery
Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of one...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Today an investigative report on how thoroughly Live Nation has come to control the Australian live music business. Fees upon fees which...
A Revisionist History Of Music File Sharing And The Music Industry Response
The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath....
“Suffs” To Close On Broadway
The show has struggled to sell enough tickets to defray its running costs, and on Friday night the producers announced that it would close...
Study: Those Who Learn A Second Language Develop More Brain Connections
Scientists found that bilingual individuals have more efficient communication between brain regions, notably between the cerebellum and left frontal cortex. - Neuroscience News
Seattle’s Book-It Theatre Rises Again
This new incarnation of Book-It will not be a producing company. They are not hiring a staff or planning a full season. You cannot...
African Museum With Priceless Prehistoric Artifacts Faces Crisis
The Nairobi National Museum, flagship of Kenya’s museum system, is in trouble, overwhelmed by a bounty of specimens and a lack of money to...
A Room Of One’s Own: Creative Space For Writers
Every writer is different. The path to telling stories about our world is hard won, and the space that’s necessary to allow us to...
Robot Conductor Makes Its Concert Debut
The artistic director of Dresden’s Sinfoniker, Markus Rindt, said the intention was “not to replace human beings” but to perform complex music that human...
I Was An Established Writer. Then I Went Back To School And Learned…
Despite all the one-click-away distractions, my peers had insightful queries, if rather too many, interrupting lectures as if pressing every hyperlink. Rarely were they...
How LiveNation Has Taken Over The Australian Music Business
A Four Corners investigation has found Live Nation has expanded its reach to every part of the Australian music industry and its practices are...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are this weekend's highlights:
Booker Shortlist Authors On The Moment Inspiration Struck "It feels incorrect, to have inspiration strike in the midst...
This Week’s Highlights
Good morning: Debates about whether art accessed in digital form replaces in-person physical experiences are largely over. There has been a resurgent interest in...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's highlights:
Why Did Gustav Klimt Use So Much Gold Leaf? "Turns out, it ran in the family. – Artnet" Read...
Back To The Future: The Atlantic Magazine Returns To Monthly Print
“The decision to restore our print publication frequency to pre-internet levels was not made lightly, but it also seemed logical, given the strength and...
Met Chief Slams New York Times Chief Music Critic
On Monday night, Met director Peter Gelb returned fire, strafing the Gray Lady — and its chief classical critic, Zachary Woolfe — and claiming there was...
Why 1984’s “Terminator” Movie Still Resonates Today
The film’s legacy in pop culture is enduring. Cameron’s dark vision of the future created a cultural shock that continues to resonate to this...
How The Nobel Literature Prize Keeps Getting It Right
The fact that the Academy has alighted on a deserving, interesting winner of the prize continues to be strange and miraculous, even if the...
When All Of Paris Is A Festival
The multidisciplinary festival, which goes until late December and features 84 events spread over 60 venues, throughout Paris and its environs. Encompassing theater, dance,...
True Cost Of Video Game Piracy: About 20 Percent Of Revenues
While the true effect of piracy on sales revenue is likely somewhere between those two extremes, piracy's precise financial impact on a game has...
Historic Bay Area Record Store Faced With Paying Millions To Stay In Business
Chris Strachwitz — who purchased the building in 1976 with money earned from the publishing royalties on Country Joe & the Fish’s “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die” — died in...
Wikipedia Declares War On Pink Slime AI
The group is clear that they don't wish to ban responsible AI use outright, but instead seek to eradicate instances of badly-sourced, hallucination-filled, or otherwise unhelpful AI content...
Nobel Literature Win Demonstrates Importance Of Small Presses
South Korean writer Han Kang's win as the 2024 Nobel Literature laureate is a triumph not only for Korean literature but also a reminder...
Of The Three Kinds Of Luck, This Is Most Consequential
Perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in...