Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Odd Case Of A Celebrity Journalist Who Gets Impossible Interviews
The author was a little-known English freelance journalist. The story of how he came to land his Johnny Depp story – along with a...
Jennifer Higdon On Writing Music
"I don't judge people in any way about how much they know about music. In fact, when I'm writing, I think, "Well, let's pretend...
Amazon Stomps On National Independent Bookstore Day With Big Online Sale
Independent bookstores and users on BookTok are expressing their frustration with Amazon while encouraging readers to stay off of the online shopping site and instead make...
What Should Be The Story Of American Culture The Kennedy Center Tells?
The Kennedy Center is more than a venue, it’s a “living monument” — a place where the story of American culture plays out onstage....
Study: Music Producers Report Widespread Use Of AI In Their Work
The consensus is that AI is an extremely potent technology and already very, very good at creating content, however, you are somehow a villain...
Trump Administration Threatens Wikipedia’s Non-Profit Status
“Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders,...
Netflix CEO: Movie Theatres Are Outdated
What is the consumer trying to tell us? That they’d like to watch movies at home, thank you. The studios and the theaters are duking...
Smithsonian Is Removing Artifacts From The African American Museum
It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums. - DCNewsNow
Remembering Maio Vargas Llosa
Vargas Llosa “has replaced Gabriel García Márquez” as the South American novelist North American readers must catch up on, Updike wrote in 1986, four...
How AI Has Changed The Ways I Explore The World
I can hold a tailored conversation on any of the topics I care about with a system that has effectively achieved Ph.D.-level competence across...
Government Funding Is Not Public Media’s Most Pressing Problem
"Too many stations simply serve as passthrough distributors for national content. That model was the only way to distribute content in the 1970s. Today,...
When The Machines Think Of Things We Never Would Have
For better and for worse, science today is shaped by strongly human factors: economic value, political priorities, career prospects, cultural trends, and a range...
AI CEO: We Will Track Everything You Do
“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app...
We Used To Think Of Nostalgia As Some Sort Of Disease…
It is not only that those wistful and innocent longings we all feel when we think of home were once subject to urgent medical...
Jazz Critic Francis Davis, 78
Davis wrote for The Atlantic for more than three decades, from 1984 to 2016, and was a contributing editor for much of that time. He also...
Has Progress For Women Conductors Stalled?
When asked whether the fact that the last two Proms festivals in Britain have each featured only eight female conductors — compared with well...
How AI Is Changing The Job Of Design
Whether it’s Adobe apps or Figma, AI features are increasingly being built into creative tools that push designers into an era of editing and...
Why “Views” Are A Poor Measure Of Popularity
A “view,” in reality, is not a universal metric. It’s not really anything. It is whatever a platform wants it to be, which usually...
The Destruction Of Sudan’s Cultural Heritage
The looting of the Sudan National Museum is the most striking example of the destruction of cultural heritage. Dramatic images of the remains of...
These Are The 250 Historical Figures To Be In Trump’s “Garden Of Heroes”
The garden, which was announced during Mr. Trump’s first term, will feature life-size renderings of “250 great individuals from America’s past who have contributed...
Facebook Founder Suggests Social Media Is Over
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, admitted as much during more than ten hours of testimony, over three days last week, in the opening phase of...
Eco-System Collapse? When Major Foundations Stopped Funding The Arts…
Three of the largest arts funders in the United States—the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Ford Foundation—stopped supporting many...
Trump Cuts Funding For Museum That Tells Story Of Slavery
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS ) has terminated two grants for Black history and culture that were awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a former plantation...
Chicago History Museum Workers Form A Union. Some Workers Get Fired. Retaliation?
Chicago History Museum Workers United formed in February with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. It was the latest...
San Antonio’s Tobin Center Theatre Isn’t Just Surviving, It’s Thriving. How?
The Tobin Center has redefined what a nonprofit performing arts center can be—operating without government funding, a Broadway series, or an endowment. With a...
