Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
AI In The Arts? It’s A Labor Issue
If you think a poem made like a hot dog of stolen words sounds interesting, that’s fine, but no one should lose their job...
At NYCity Ballet, Audiences Are Getting Younger
In 2023, 53% of ticket buyers were under age 50, and people in their 30s made up the largest age segment by decade. Five...
Ransomware Hackers Claim Responsibility For Christie’s Attack
A hacker group called RansomHub said it was behind the cyberattack that hit the Christie’s website just days before its marquee spring sales began, forcing the...
Inside Pacific Symphony’s Music Director Search
It’s been a golden period for top-shelf conductors seeking a new gig – and a more competitive time for orchestras looking to hire one....
Hollywood’s New Era Of Translation And Subtitles
Across many films and series about Asians and Asian Americans, language is increasingly used as a world-building tool. - The New York Times
Have We Lost The Context Of Our Arguments?
The crowd addicted to slander and the crowd addicted to censorship are displaying at high visibility the symptoms of what psychologists call disinhibition. When...
Van Gogh’s Addiction To Coffee: What He Told His Doctor
“Rey says that instead of eating enough and regularly I have been particularly sustaining myself with coffee and alcohol. I admit all that, but...
As Social Media Breaks, News Orgs Experiment With Analog Outreach
To reach affected audiences, the Tribune printed 500 flyers and 1,000 postcards in English and Spanish. Journalists knocked on doors in the neighborhoods where...
Australia’s Richest Art Prize Put On Hiatus
The prize was established in 1988, initially as a biannual event, and was then awarded every year from 2007, other than in 2020 due to Covid...
Remarkable: How AMC Movie Theatres Have Survived Despite Massive Debt
“We’re still here,” Adam Aron says of Kansas-based AMC, which operates 895 theaters globally. “When you think about what we’ve been through the past...
The Algorithmic Radicalization Of Culture SuperFans
Social platforms can have a radicalizing effect on fandoms. When we study algorithmic radicalization, we tend to do so in the context of politics,...
Study: Audiences Rate Male Dancers’ “Coalition Quality” Higher
Researchers found that groups of male dancers were perceived as having higher coalition quality compared to groups of female dancers, regardless of the synchronization...
What The LiveNation/TicketMaster Lawsuit Might Mean
Live Nation is essentially a monopoly, the government argues. Its complaint notes the concert giant directly manages more than 400 musical artists, controls around...
Fresh From Firing Storytellers At Pixar, Disney CEO Bob Iger Tells Artists To “Embrace...
“Don’t fixate on its ability to be disruptive — fixate on ability to make us better and tell better stories. Not only better...
Accessing Jaap van Zweden’s Tenure At The New York Philharmonic
The ensemble’s playing, across all instrumental choirs, sounds richer and more flexible than it did before his tenure. So what Mr. Dudamel stands to...
What, Exactly, Are Editors Supposed To Do?
That editors edit, which would seem to go without saying, turns out to be a pretty facile summary of a role whose essential ambiguities...
Let Your Phone Condense And Describe Books. What Could Go Wrong?
The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of...
Sony Chief: Company To Focus On Entertainment Rather Than Devices
Yoshida said the company is now emphasizing the creative process itself instead of prized products of the past like the Walkman portable music player...
What Accounts For The Difference In Energy From One Person To Another?
“Some people are more alive than others. Even permanently so.” I find that true to my own experience, even if it is hard to...
Entertainment Jobs Are Leaving Hollywood
Production has been slipping away from Hollywood since the 1950s, but the effects have never been more apparent than at present. - Los Angeles...
The Sad State Of Wisconsin’s Public Arts Support
"In the state of Wisconsin, we have very little public sector support for the arts. So, whereas in other cities, these gaps that exist...
BBC To Release To Previously Unheard Louis Armstrong Performances
Unheard performances by Louis Armstrong at the BBC in 1968, regarded by Armstrong aficionados as some of the jazz legend’s greatest work, are to finally be...
Calgary Philharmonic Removes Two Musicians For Their Comments
The exact comments that triggered the investigation have not been disclosed, nor has the reasoning for the musicians’ removal from the orchestra – including...
How Google’s Search AI Will Kill Web Publishers
While links to external websites do appear below the AI-generated answers, some publishers and groups such as the News Media Alliance are afraid that they will...
US To File Anti-Trust Suit Seeking To Break Up LiveNation And TicketMaster
Among the practices the department plans to challenge are exclusive ticketing contracts that Ticketmaster has with many of the venues where high-profile acts perform....