Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why A Major Hollywood Talent Agency Is Busy Signing Digital Artists
“The sheer volume of new artists, artworks, and platforms is growing. Think about the impact that YouTube had on a generation of viewers—it completely...
British Museum Fires Employee After Discovering Missing And Damaged Treasures
Items including gold, jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones were among those found to be missing, stolen or damaged. - BBC
The TikTokers Getting Millions Of Reviews For Their Movie Reviews
Maddi Koch, who is a senior at Virginia Tech and is sometimes paid by film companies to promote their work, says she makes videos...
Neuroscientists Reconstruct Pink Floyd Song From Brain Scan Of Listener
Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley reconstructed Pink Floyd’s classic rock song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” using recordings of the...
“Barbie” Brought People Back To Movie Theatres. Will They Return?
Peak, who has now seen Barbie twice, thinks she might see more movies in theaters, if studios, "could replicate something where it's more of an event for us...
How August Wilson Changed Theatre
"He was viscerally aware that the essence of dramatic art is found in the living, breathing doing of it with a collective cast of...
40-Year-Old Portland Oregon Theatre Shuts Down, Blames “National Crisis” In Theatre
Leaders of Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre announced on Tuesday they are canceling the 2023-24 season, just as the company was beginning rehearsals for one of the...
Goodbye Toxic Online Comments? OpenAI Building AI-Driven Content Moderation System
The company wrote in a blog post that GPT-4 can not only help make content moderation decisions, but aid in developing policies and swiftly iterating on...
Justin Davidson Spends A Day On Set Of Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Movie
"I’m not sure I envy Cooper (who is directing the film and co-wrote the script) the task of getting into that storm-strafed mind or...
Study: Products Launches During A Recession Do Better
“I thought discretionary-product launches would be more likely to fail, because nonessential purchases tend to decline in tough economies. But the effects are consistent...
Edinburgh Fringe: On The Road To Terminal Decline?
"I’ve been talking with many here this summer, from producers to those who run venues to the artists themselves, and I’m struck by how...
Has The Edinburgh Fringe Regained Its Magic? Or Is It An Atrocity of Chaos?
Depending on whom you listen to, fringe 2023 is an atrocity against mental health, social justice and artists’ bank accounts. Or it is a...
Bloom Is Off The Podcasting Boom: Podcast Company Quits “Onerous” Public Radio Deal
When American Public Media and Audacy’s Cadence13 announced a three-year “strategic” partnership in the summer of 2021, it seemed like a perfect union between public and...
The Harder They Fall: New Tucker Carlson Bio Sells Only 3000 Copies
According to Publishers Weekly, Tucker by Chadwick Moore sold just 3,227 copies in its first week after publication on 1 August. - The Guardian
Big Publishers See Big Money In AI (But Little Publishers Will Be Shut Out)
Large tech companies will pick and choose what publishers they want to negotiate with and how much they’re willing to hand over. The numbers...
Amazon Says It Will Use AI To Help Review Products
The retailer says it will use the new technology to provide a short paragraph of text right on the product detail page that will...
Small Washington Town’s Library Under Siege By Book-Banners
The library director and board initially refused to move any of the books. But, more recently, the library has tried to assuage its adversaries,...
Iowa School District Used ChatGPT To Decide Which Books To Ban
Each of these texts was reviewed using AI software to determine if it contains a depiction of a sex act. Based on this review,...
TikTok Says It Will Let Users Opt Out Of Its Algorithms In The EU
TikTok’s algorithm learns from users’ interactions—how long they watch, what they like, when they share a video—to create a highly tailored and immersive experience that can...
Traditional TV Watching Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time As Streaming Dominates
In July, cable’s share fell below 30% for the first time, losing a full share point to stand at 29.6%. Broadcast usage fell 3.6%,...
How A Big Investment Bank (Morgan Stanley) Breaks Down The Art Market
As the fine-art auction market has grown more and more financialized in recent years, it has also grown more and more opaque to nearly...
Music Labels Sue Internet Archive Over Giving Access To Historic Recordings
The labels' lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive's "Great 78 Project" functions as an "illegal record store" for songs by musicians...
What’s Ailing University Music Programs: Study Of The Art Form
The progressive marginalisation of the study of music theory and analysis, relentlessly dismissed as “formalism”, deprives music departments of the one thing, other than practical work,...
Nigel Kennedy: Today’s Musicians Are “Clones”
“Every kid wants to play because of the love of music. But quite often they’ve got that beaten out of them and they’re having...
A Musician Describes Years Of Playing Through Pain
I developed tendinitis in my elbows and my knees and neither healed. The pain and muscle spasms from those injuries increased and migrated, eventually...
