Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
AI Is Forcing Architecture Firms To Rethink How They Operate
Artificial intelligence has made its way into almost every corner of professional workflows, prompting the architectural industry to rethink how it works. To adapt...
Study: Participating In The Arts Slows Biological Aging
The findings are the first to show that both participating in arts activities and attending events, such as viewing an exhibition, lead to people...
Will AI Make College Unnecessary?
The pressures on higher education seem extraordinary, even to someone like me, who is generally convinced that real change is rare, perhaps especially when...
Report: Humanities Department Chairs Are Pessimistic About The Field’s Future
Humanities chairs—anxious about increasing political interference, declining enrollments and students’ skepticism toward the value of humanities degrees—are largely pessimistic about the future of their...
Three Wildly Different Accounts On Selling Art
Three recently published books give us some perspective on the selling of art: a long-view history going back to the Middle Ages; a memoir...
My Year Of Obsessive Listening To Keith Jarrett
By mid-October, I finally had something close to a single aphorism about Jarrett, an inversion of a half-remembered Wordsworth definition of the vocation of a...
LA’s Family Businesses That Built The Film Industry Are Dying
From florists to prop rentals to catering and beyond, production services and craft businesses are the hub and spoke of L.A.’s film and TV...
Report: Museums Have Major Building Issues
Roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are dealing with deferred maintenance or major repair needs. Even more concerning, about 77 percent say...
Warner Music And Paramount Make Deal To Make Movies Of Musicians
The partnership will see the companies develop movies drawing on the lives and music of WMG‘s roster of artists and songwriters. - Music Business Worldwide
The New New Thing: Trend Simulation
You’ve fallen prey to “trend simulation”: the marketing tactic of paying people online to post opinions they don’t necessarily hold, endorsing music they don’t...
Denyce Graves’ Opera Afterlife
Graves is a perfect avatar of everything the Trump administration seeks to eradicate, a fact that gave her swan song an even more sentimental...
A24 Has A Hip Theatre, Hot New Restaurant, And A String Of Indie Hits....
Renowned as much for its taste as for its marketing acumen, the 13-year-old studio has developed a cult following not just for its films...
Hollywood Insider: It’s The Worst It’s Ever Been
If you are a lower or mid-level television writer right now, you are not failing. You are navigating a market that has structurally reduced...
Warner Music Earnings Surged To $1.7B In First Quarter
WMG saw its quarterly global company-wide revenues reach USD $1.732 billion (across recorded music, music publishing, and other activities). Total revenue was up 12.1% YoY at constant currency. -...
AJ Chronicles: The Venice Biennale Blows Up — Some Takeaways
Culture awards of all kinds have been steadily losing their currency over the past decade. So what's going on?
Claim: Figuring Out Consciousness Isn’t Difficult
Amid the current cultural backlash against progressive ideas, today’s debate on consciousness reflects our human fears of belonging to the same family as inanimate...
How Gawker Reshaped Our Media Landscape
Gawker, which shut down 10 years ago this August, was guilty of lapses in judgment — former staffers interviewed for this story admit as...
Warner Bros. Posts $2.9B Loss In First Quarter
The New York-based media company released its first-quarter earnings report Wednesday, which included a $2.9-billion loss. That amount includes $1.3 billion in restructuring expenses,...
Portland, OR Has An Arts Tax. Now It’s Time To Reform It
“Without this much needed arts tax reform, including indexing it to inflation, we risk losing the very institutions that make Portland vibrant, and we...
How Trump Took Over The NEH
A little over a year later, after the Department of Government Efficiency eliminated more than half of the NEH staff and tried to terminate 97 percent of...
How Our Machines Are Getting In The Way Of Art
From the original, nineteenth-century form popularized by Balzac, Zola, and Stendhal to the “lyrical” variant of today, the verisimilitude that realism pursues—not just lifelikeness,...
Time For Ballet To Go Big Again?
His way of turning chaos into clockwork, of shifting the act of watching ballet to an out-of-body experience, might do a number on a...
Is Substack The New Book Tour?
Some experts say Substack’s rise fits into a longer arc in publishing, one shaped by the early wave of self-publishing tools like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing...
Report: Twice As Many Books Banned This Year From Libraries And Classrooms
PEN America’s report released Thursday called “Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away by Book Bans” found that 3,743 unique titles were removed from school libraries and...
Study: Using AI Could Make You Lazy And Dumber
Some participants were given access to an AI assistant capable of solving the problem autonomously. When the AI helper was suddenly taken away, these...
