Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Artificial Intelligence Is Being Misused… Now
While much of the current critique of AI is still framed by science fiction dystopias, the way it is being used now is increasingly...
Italy Creates Underwater Sculpture Museum To Thwart Illegal Fishing
The marble sculptures create both a physical barrier for the trawlers’ nets and a unique underwater museum, open to anyone either through arranged scuba...
What This Year’s Oscar Best Picture Nominations Say About The Movie Audience
“Dune,” the sprawling first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious adaptation of the 1965 science fiction novel, was the only nominated film that could claim to...
SFMoMA Names A New Director
Christopher Bedford, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art since 2016, has been named the new director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
The Language Police Are Threatening Education
These recent acts of illiberal language policing––coinciding with a racial reckoning on the left and a backlash against its excesses on the right––threatens to degrade...
How Streaming Platforms Are Transforming Bollywood
"The benchmark in the minds of the audience is content that they have watched from across the globe. That has pushed Indian filmmakers, writers...
Ideas Worth… Wait, What Did TED Talks Accomplish?
“We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world… may be simply to stand up and say...
Survey: How Canadian Orchestras Are Approaching Streaming
The bad news is that digital isn’t covering the costs associated with it — not yet, at any rate. The larger problem is that...
The Real Problem With Spotify (And It’s Not Rogan)
At its best, Spotify is an elegant tool—a conduit between artist and art and listener. But at its worst, it’s a bad actor in...
Brooklyn Academy Of Music Gets A New Leader
Gina Duncan, who previously served as BAM’s first vice president of film and strategic programming, has been selected as the organization’s new president, the...
Captive Audience: Why Mazdas In The Pacific Northwest Only Tune This NPR Station
It was as if the infotainment center had decided to team up with the ghost of HAL. You remember that malfunctioning, soft-spoken and ultimately...
Why Some Of Us Seek Out Painful Experiences
Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are...
Restitution Of Cultural Artifacts Is Gaining Momentum
International co-operation and resolve is growing firmer, as seen most recently in December, when Greece’s resolution, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the...
NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience
To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to...
Unesco: A Worldwide Cultural Crisis Because Of The Pandemic – 10 Million Culture Jobs...
“What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity.” - The Guardian
Why Joe Rogan Matters
He channels his audience into extended conversations with famously smart people who are willing to give them hours of attention. Through him, they feel...
Why It’s Important To Listen To Old Recordings
Today, of course, technical perfection is an overriding concern. But there are other aspects of performance practice today, some of which are wonderful but...
That Line Between Work And Play
Adults taking hobbies too seriously can be a pathetic spectacle, but it is also a staple of comedy. - 3 Quarks Daily
What Makes The Architecture Of LA’s New Stadium (and Home Of This Week’s Superbowl)...
“Thinking about the Getty Villa, the Getty , Dodger Stadium, the cliffs in Malibu or Laguna,” shaped the way the team thought about...
Why Netflix Is Going To Fail
Netflix’s proprietary approach— based on sole control of intellectual property and intense hostility to all other players—is destined for long term failure. - Ted...
Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games
QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every...
Meet The Teenagers Who Started A Bookclub To Read Banned Books
The teen members of Kutztown’s Banned Book Club, meet every two weeks to read and discuss literature that conservatives across the country are working...
Superstar Concert Ticket Prices Soar, Pricing Out Many
“Even with the inflated prices, I’m still going to go to gigs because music is what I live for. But working-class people are getting...
Tracking Broadway’s Uneven Reopening: Winners And Losers
The quick upshot: While the formerly $15 billion industry was still recovering, many shows made up much, if not all, lost momentum. But the...
Spotify’s Real Problem: Unrealistic Ambition
What’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks is that the source of Spotify’s headaches isn’t Rogan. It is Spotify’s own corporate ambition to dominate...