Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Influencer Lawsuit Asks: Can You Copyright A “Vibe?”
What might appear to be a superficial spat over sweaters and hairstyles could actually be a legal fight that gets at the heart of...
Scholarly Publishers Are Selling Papers To AI Companies
Several scholarly publishers have forged agreements with technology companies looking to use content to train the large language models (LLMs) that underlie their AI tools. A...
Transformative: New Seattle Sales Tax For The Arts Generates Tens Of Millions Of Dollars
For context, 4Culture usually sends out about $10 million to $15 million per year. With Doors Open, the agency’s 2025 grants are increasing to...
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How 20th-Century Writers Marched The Novel To Oblivion
Novelists increasingly defined their craft by opposing tradition, and so placed themselves at loggerheads with most of their possible audience. There is something essentially...
Statistical Profile: Which Artists Are Being Shown In America’s Museums
I looked at more than 200 museums, and counted which artists were on view any time during December. The resulting list includes a little...
Striking Seattle Art Museum Guards Allege Union-Busting
“A full-time job should serve the basic things you need to take care of yourself, housing, food, health, even mental health. I’ve struggled to...
UK Theatres Warn Of Cuts Because Of Cost Increases
UK Theatre joint chief executive Claire Walker warned that “unplanned increases in staffing costs” were adding to a theatre sector already at “risk”. -...
Terry Loftis Named New CEO Of New Jersey Symphony
Loftis goes to the New Jersey Symphony from his position as Chief Advancement and Revenue Officer of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), where he...
Phantom AI-Generated News Websites Are Taking Over Old Community Newspapers
The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed, or at least were who they claimed to...
Where’s The Next “New Berlin”?
Lately, “new Berlin” has become shorthand for an under-visited European city that is cheap, fun, and up-and-coming. Ever since creeping gentrification and a massive...
The Creator Economy Is Huge: 360M Creators In 20 Countries
They generate a cumulative economic impact of $368 billion, a figure comparable to the GDP of Hong Kong and more than the entire economic...
Musicians Sign Letter Opposing Attacks On Internet Archive
“We, the undersigned musicians, wholeheartedly oppose major record labels’ unjust lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive,” the Musicians for Fairness and Preservation Open Letter reads. “We don’t...
Why Are People Hating On This Year’s Pantone Color Of The Year?
Today alone, people have been coming out in droves to express their deep-seated hatred for or utter confusion about Mocha Mousse in various comments sections. USA Today even insinuated...
Here Are 2025’s Golden Globe Nominations
On the TV side, FX/Hulu’s “The Bear” continues its trophy domination with the most nominations for any series; that’s five for the restaurant-set dramedy....
Canva Changed How Ordinary People Design. Can Canva Survive AI?
Canva’s vision has always been to enable you to take your idea and turn it into a design, and reduce the friction between those...
Taylor Swift’s Finally-Completed Tour Took In An Astonishing $2 Billion
Through its 149th and final show, which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday, Swift’s tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets. That’s...
Why The Novel Matters
It does not have to be clear or obscure. In the voyage out between these binaries – between the oil spills, thistles and phantoms...
The Creative Work That’s Coming Out Of Copyright This Year
Copyright will expire on Buck Rogers, Captain Easy, Horace Horsecollar, Tintin, Hal Foster's first Tarzan comic strips and, yes, Popeye. - Creative Blog
Those Cursed “Best Of” Lists? They’re Actually Valuable
Detractors of year-end lists argue that they too frequently reward work that has already been heavily promoted and acclaimed, especially in a category like...
When Barnes & Noble Bought One Of This Country’s Most-Storied Independent Bookstores
"When Barnes & Noble took over they were saying, 'Hey, this is the Tattered Cover. The name Barnes & Noble will be nowhere in...
Why AI Is Cognitively And Creatively Exhausting
"In the early days of GenAI tools, I would share these bullet-point lists of ideas with my team, and it would be met with...
Have We Damaged Philanthropy By Trying To Optimize It?
A report this year, from nearly 200 philanthropic leaders, noted that as 20 million households dropped out of giving, from 2010 to 2016, the organizations...
How We Got To Brain Rot
Brain rot is marked by a “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material...