Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
I’m A Librarian At Rikers Jail. Here’s What I See…
There are parts of the jail system that we no longer visit, because we don’t feel safe there. Other parts have lost library access...
Eurovision: So Deeply Uncool It’s Now Cool?
Do these fans love Eurovision because they enjoy the catharsis of the unabashed release of “bad taste”? Or because they enjoy feeling superior to...
The Enduring Power Of Multicultural Culture
Across the entire geographic and chronological recorded history of human societies, storytelling has enabled different ways of seeing and thinking to be communicated without...
Forget Bromances – Female Literary Friendships Are In
Since 2015, the year female friendship was discovered, book after book about it has been published. - Granta
Nataki Garrett On Trying To Make Change At The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“When you recognize the potential for something to shift, and you can see the path, then the question becomes, how do you implement a...
Why New York Is The Center Of The Global Art Market
New York surpassed Paris as the global centre of the art market in the years after the Second World War. Now it has been...
Ottawa’s National Gallery Struck In Ransomware Attack
“The Gallery has been focused on bringing our IT systems back online,” the email read. “The Gallery has continued to be open to the...
Cracking Down On China’s Ugliest Buildings
“Lacking regulation, the construction spurt has been like sprinting blindfolded, outstripping public consensus and leading to a breakdown in cultural thought and design.” -...
Getty Revives Collaborative Southern-California-Defining Pacific Standard Time Project
PST, as it is known, began in 2011 with the theme of Southern California art history and was reprised in 2017 to focus on Latino and Latin...
European Movie Box Office Was Up 70 Percent In 2022
Gross box office receipts across the European Union and the U.K. were up 70 percent in 2022 to $5.5 billion (€5.07 billion), with an...
Nashville Is A Creative City. It Needs Investment
Today, as costs of living soar and working-class artists still wrestle with the remnants of the pandemic, the creative culture that has been our...
Why AI Will Never Compete With Human Creativity
Quality in art is an emergent property: it arises in the doing, in a dialogic dance between the artist and the work. As the...
Science Journals Are Being Overwhelmed By Fake Papers
Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying...
Shazam App Now Works With Classical Music, Identifying What You’re Listening To
Users can press the Shazam button to identify a classical music song or search for music. Then, tapping the menu icon on the track...
Commencement Speaker Cancels Amid Investigation At Cleveland Institute Of Music
Anne Midgette, the former longtime classical music critic at the Washington Post, declined an honorary doctorate from the higher education institution and withdrew as keynote...
Disney Surprise: Disney+ Loses 4 Million Subscribers
The flagship Disney+ service also lost 4 million paid subscribers during the quarter—its biggest drop ever and a shock to analysts who expected the...
“Cinderella” Dies: For The First Time In 43 Years, Andrew Lloyd Webber Doesn’t Have...
"Cinderella" was greeted on Broadway by hostile reviews, garnered zero Tony nominations and struggled at the box office. Last week it played to houses that...
Spotify Removes Tens Of Thousands Of Songs Created By AI
Spotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of...
The Prescient Artist: Nam June Paik
Paik once said, “It’s an artist’s job to think about the future.” This compelling film underscores why Paik should be considered the progenitor of...
Paramount Network Cuts 25 Percent Of Workforce
To be sure, Paramount is hardly alone in its bloodletting. Warner Bros. Discovery, for instance, completed a series of layoffs as well as a...
Reality Is Shifting. We Need To Rethink Authenticity
With text, image, audio, and video all becoming easier for anyone to produce through new generative AI tools, I believe people are going to...
How Dance Is Adjusting To New Post-COVID Norms
During the past three years, we’ve caught glimpses of healthier ways to conduct business, produce more inclusive events and better support artists. Right now...
Of Course Ed Sheeran Won His Case. But AI Is A Whole New Ballgame...
For as long as there has been music, there has been the practice of “contrafact,” the use of another song’s chord progression to create...
Breaking Boundaries: Tyshawn Sorey
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, Sorey is a musical universalist who has little use for categories and labels. He feels they are reductive and irrelevant...
Physical Books Have Reached That Awkward Stage
Kindle is to literature what Instagram or TikTok are to visual images, or Spotify to music. They have their uses, but it would be absurd for the British Library,...
