Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A New Fellowship For Rising Young Theatre Critics
Critical Insight is "a new generative arts journalism fellowship that will bring the best in the field to early-career and aspiring critics through mentorship,...
Pappano: People In The UK Are Embarrassed By Opera
“Here it’s looked on with great suspicion. That drives me nuts, I have to tell you. England is a haven for culture whether it...
San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Josh Kosman To Retire
On April 30, Kosman will flip his critic’s notebook closed for the final time, retiring from the newspaper at a crucial juncture for classical...
What It Costs To Attend Coachella (Thousands of $) And Why These Fans Say...
Many people are willing to lay out a lot of money for the experience and party in the VIP section, but it's possible to...
How Our Obsession With Self-Improvement Is Harming Us
A consequence of the cultural obsession with self-improvement is the hyperfixation on the self. From elaborate skin care regimens to the culling of “toxic” friends...
What’s Behind The Comeback Of Vinyl Records?
Where barely one million new vinyl albums were sold in the United States in 2006, that figure has grown every year since, soaring to...
Inside The Artist’s Mind
How do artists think? As I considered my flailing artistic efforts, I realized I was begging for entrance into the artist’s head. If I...
Museum Fires Employee After He Hung His Own Painting In Gallery
The museum fired a member of its technical services team after he was found to have hung one of his own paintings in a...
Why Do We Make Saints Of Dead Composers?
The saint is worshiped alongside the divine, and in many faiths, the line between the two is blurred. In the world of classical music,...
A Mexican Town Fighting Off Gentrification Of Its Culture
“We didn't notice it at the beginning because we were locked inside. And then when we came out, everything had changed radically,” says Antonio...
When Nostalgia Was Considered A Deadly Condition
Victims of nostalgia, as Hofer identified, were primarily young people and adolescents sent to alien lands, regions and cities. He was very clear about...
Art, Diplomacy, And The Propaganda Of Ideas
Is there a way for the government to support art without corrupting it? And if not, how can we ensure that art still remains...
AI And The Future Of Opera
It seems clearer that creatives using AI tools as a part of their own processes is considered more acceptable than administrators using AI to...
Klaus Mäkelä, The Chicago Symphony, And The Importance Of Lived Experience
Cultural memory—for untold centuries, a precondition for creativity and appreciation of the creative act—risks becoming a stack of flashcards processed as media clips. Will...
A Transformative Arts Project For Downtown Calgary
“Today, we don’t just reveal a stunning new design—we come together to celebrate the fact that the largest cultural infrastructure project currently underway in...
Record Labels Are Pulling Music From TikTok. Congress Might Ban The App. So Now...
TikTok began life as Musical.ly, an app to film oneself lip-syncing to songs. Interacting with pop music was a core function of TikTok. Fans...
Scientists Are Trying To Measure Our Emotional Reaction To Art
New scientific investigations into the embodied experience of viewing art point us toward more concrete answers, but also more questions. - Hyperallergic
Claim: YouTube Is The Most Consequential Technology In America
Maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also the most popular way to hear music and one of the country’s largest cable TV providers....
AI Companies Are Running Out Of Data
Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans of information to learn from. That demand is straining the available...
Meta Considered Buying Simon & Schuster To Train Its AI
According to the recordings, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of generative AI, told executives that the company had used almost every book, poem and...
Motion Picture Association Ramps Up Anti-Piracy Plan
If the MPA’s plan sounds familiar, it’s because it has tried this before. It helped hatch the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012, which...
UMG’s Fight With TikTok Is Hurting Musicians
“TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok...
Spotify Has Demonetized Music Tracks With Fewer Than 1000 Plays
In an attempt to tackle fraudulent activity on the platform, the digital music service now also requires a minimum number of unique listeners for...
Fraud Fail: Musicians Are Seeing Their Music Being Taken Down From Streaming Services
Although distributors and streaming services frequently use language that places the blame on the artist for fraudulent activity detected on their accounts, it has become...
Apps That Summarize Books Are A Multi-Threat Danger To Publishing
Since these digital services first promised to boil down a title, usually a nonfiction work, a decade ago, the marketplace has become crowded. So...