Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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....
Our Complicated Relationship With Nostalgia
Even if nostalgia is a less “dangerous emotion” today than it seems to have been to the Swiss soldiers, it well deserves to be...
How Our Phones Have Warped The Ways We See The World
Your phone mirrors the world back to you. But what you see is the world you want to see—a “frictionless,” “responsive,” “immediate,” “obedient,” “commercialized,”...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Shows Signs Of Revival
The reason for the return to larger-cast shows gets at the heart of what makes the 89-year-old company unique. OSF is one of the...
How Cliches Limit Our Thinking
Since the moment I learned about the concept of the “thought-terminating cliche” I’ve been seeing them everywhere I look. - The Guardian
Behind The ChatGPT/Scarlett Johansson Debacle
At the core of these deflections is an implication: The hypothetical superintelligence they are building is too big, too world-changing, too important for prosaic...
Boston Symphony Names New Concertmaster
Nathan Cole, 46, fills a seat that has been vacant since the 2019 retirement of Malcolm Lowe, who served as concertmaster for 35 years. -...
Tom Lehrer Is A Biting Satirist And Still Alive At 96. So Why Did...
Was it because, as a child mathematics prodigy, he wanted to fulfil his real vocation and become a great mathematician? Apparently not. He taught...
Investigation: 1000 Damien Hirst Works Weren’t Made When He Said They Were
At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal. - The Guardian
After Decades Of Being Youth-Obsessed, TV Gets Comfortable With The Old
Most people watching TV are older than those groups. Among cable channels, the median age for TNT and Bravo viewers is 56, for HGTV...
How A Denver Performing Arts Center Thrives On Free Shows And Community Trust
With more than 40 free shows this season, and only 10 that charge for tickets, Levitt has built trust and audiences through a highly...
A Short History Of Over-The-Top Art World Feuds
Here are four more beefs between art-world honchos, spanning from the ‘50s to the aughts, that are, regardless of when they took place, truly...
Opera Australia Posts A $4.9 Million Deficit
Marking the milestone of 50 years of performing at the Sydney Opera House in 2023, OA presented 30 productions: 14 operas, 13 concerts and...
Public Radio’s Foundation Is Leaking. Some Real Planning Is In Order
Just like with the plumbing in our house, public radio can’t wait any longer to take action on the leaks in its foundation. They...
Diversity Problem: Few UK Arts Workers Come From The Working Class
While 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make...
Study: Are AI Large Language Models Developing Theory Of Mind?
What defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. Large language models (LLMs)...
What Our Inner Voices Tell Us
For psychologists and other researchers, inner speech presents a puzzle – it’s a huge part of our lives, yet so difficult to study. After...
How Roulette Became New York’s Music Lab
Pursuing an aesthetic guided as much by John Coltrane as by John Cage, Roulette became a crucial laboratory for the downtown-music scene, providing artists...
How Copyright Has Killed Music (Except For Taylor Swift)
If giving people money encourages them to create, then surely giving them more money would encourage them to create more music, right? The answer...
Christie’s Auction Sale Has Good Night, Despite Cyber Attack
It was a "reassuringly solid result of $346.5m ($413.3m with fees) from its Modern evening sale—within its pre-sale estimate of $340m-$493.5m (calculated without fees)."...
A Year After Its “Year Of Culture” Honors, Leeds’ Arts Scene Is Collapsing
Last year, the city of Leeds held a year-long celebration of culture. This year, however, artists and creatives in the West Yorkshire city are being...
How Grantmakers Can Support Artists Of Color
Historical ideas of what constitutes arts and culture and the roots of racial injustice are being re-examined, and these investments mark a step in...
Broadway Is More Expensive Than Ever. But Where Are The Audiences?
It feels a bit like the Roaring '20s - appropriate since the current Broadway season also features a musical adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."...
Why We’re Still Having Difficulty Adjusting To Hybrid Work
On the one hand, a reduction in the number of work-related commutes is good for the environment. On the other, entire days spent on...