Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Are Rappers Finding A Home With Right Wing Media And Politicians?
In discussions about money, gender identity, public health and a variety of social issues, rappers and rightwingers have a lot more in common than...
I Helped Write “Suits.” This Summer It Became A Big Netflix Hit. Here’s What...
Here, when you write for a show that becomes an unprecedented success, there is no such windfall. There is only a check for $259.71....
Why Has The Symphony Orchestra Endured In Such A Compelling Way?
The reason the symphony has maintained such heft since then is because it supposedly represents timeless values. It has a tricksy ability to tread...
Studios Are Saving Billions While The Actors, Writers Strikes Are On
Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday the strikes will contribute to a projected $3 billion reduction in film and TV production costs this year. -...
Retro As A Business – A New Newspaper On Newsprint Across America
The first issue of their 20-page, print-only broadsheet, which bills itself as “a magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper,”...
Why August Wilson Matters
Through high-profile revivals and star-studded screen adaptations, Wilson’s work lives on powerfully and prolifically. Patti Hartigan’s book reminds us what it took for the man to become a monument. -...
How To Capture The Magic Of Tanglewood: WGBH
Broadcasts from Tanglewood particularly bristle with presence — you can hear every detail of the orchestra, and sometimes even the stubborn starlings chirping in...
Disney Loses Subscribers, Reports Mixed Earnings
Disney+ reported a total of 146.1 million subscribers for the quarter, a decrease of 11.7 million from 157.8 million in the previous quarter. - The...
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Trends: This summer we're seeing the convergence of long-time declines and failures of business models supporting the arts. This has led to a crisis...
How The Freewheeling Edinburgh Fringe Deals With Cancel Culture
"When you look back at what the fringe has turned out, surely a wee bit of it somewhere can be allowed to upset. It's...
Google And Music Companies In Negotiations On What To Do With DeepFake Music
Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated by artificial intelligence as the music business tries to monetize...
American Universities Have Been On A Massive Spending Spree
The University of Kentucky upgraded its campus to the tune of $805,000 a day for more than a decade. Its freshmen, who come from one...
Could AI Become Conscious? How Would We Know?
What is or might be the evidence in favor of consciousness in a large language model, and what might be the evidence against it? ...
Consider: Taylor Swift, Dancer
As dance, the show is simple and unoriginal — yet exceptionally effective. Swift is a pop superstar who dances but is not known for...
China Has Severely Restricted Screen Time For Children. Is It Working?
Many parents, both in and outside China, have celebrated Beijing’s past parental controls as the right approach for a government to take. But will all those people be...
Brice Marden, 84
Marden’s style may have made him different from many of his colleagues with more explicitly conceptual ambitions, but he continued to find admirers because...
Hollywood’s Self-Sabotage
To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood...
Why Save The Current Form Of American Theatre? We Need A New Model
For theater, as we know it, to have any future at all, a new economic model must take its place, founded on a simple...
Your Community’s Superpower? Its Libraries
In a country where nearly every iota of our psyches and our physical spaces has been captured for the purpose of generating a profit,...
When Evidence-Based Reasoning Can Lead Us Astray
We should not assume that motivated reasoning, or all other biased thinking that involves ignoring high quality and relevant information, can only lead us...
This Artist Has 30 Million TikTok Followers. Can He Now Make It In The...
With over 30 million followers on TikTok alone, Rodriguez has developed a following that has even extended to the outside world. Considered merely by...
Seattle Museum Presents “Harry Potter” Show, But Excises All References To JK Rowling
Explaining the decision in a 1,400-word blog, the museum’s exhibitions project manager, Chris Moore, brands Rowling a ‘cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity’. - Spiked
The Books Being Turned Into Plays
“I love the way that one art form can light the flame for another. It doesn’t diminish the original … there’s a whole lot...
Could Apple Buy Disney? The Whispers Are Growing
There clearly is no buyer like Apple, which is sitting on $62 billion in cash and cash equivalents and has a $2.8 trillion market cap. And...
American Theatre’s Existential Crisis
The play’s the thing that’s now in danger. America’s love affair with the stage – embodied by Lincoln and fellow presidential theatregoers such as...
