Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
For The Second Time Since 1987, Vinyl Records Outsold CDs Last Year
People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s 6 million more than the number of CDs...
There Are Lots Of Music Subscription Experiments Going On. How About This One?
The term “blockchain” has dropped out of the public consciousness since the calming of the NFT frenzy of the early 2020s. But the technology...
Can This Record Producer’s Book Really Turn You Into An Artist?
The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as...
AI Translators And The End Of Language Instruction
Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern...
Richard Serra, 85
Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmarks like Stonehenge. - The New...
Examining Shakespeare’s Words
To praise Shakespeare is also to praise his audience. Not just the one that filled the Globe during his lifetime, but the subsequent generations, too,...
Sundance Loses Its Leader After Only Two Years
Joana Vicente came to Sundance from the Toronto International Film Festival and arrived as COVID had pushed the festival online for 2021 and again...
How Censorship Changed Opera
How did the opera get past censorship, when it utilized the same script of Hugo’s banned play? Well, this was thanks to the genius...
The Trolls Unleashed By Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Nowadays when we speak of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, we mostly refer to its more reputable side. But similar to the proliferation of...
Large Warhol Silk Screen Painting Missing From College
The print was inspired by U.S. President Nixon’s trip to China to meet Chairman Mao Zedong, ending years of diplomatic isolation between the U.S....
The UK Arts Sector Has Been Damaged By Tory Budget Cuts. Time To Rebuild
The Tories have been weaponising the arts for their own purposes in the culture wars – an incredibly cynical and damaging thing to do,...
Germany’s Much-Vaunted Culture Has Turned Rotten
Many Berliners are growing estranged from the cultural institutions our taxes fund. Hard as it is for someone like me to admit, economic hardships...
What Australian Arts Managers Are Noticing In Their Best Workers
They "are noticing in their best workers right now is the ability to recognise where opportunities and/ or learnings can be found in otherwise...
Study: Link Between Formal Music Training And Working Memory
Study author Maria Chiara Pino and her colleagues noted that people with formal musical background i.e., individuals who had formal musical training tend to...
How War In Gaza Is Breaking Up The German Arts World
The conflict in the Middle East is showing Germany in a new light, highlighting fissures in society and the arts world that until now...
Province Of Alberta Invests $103M In Calgary Arts Commons
The province’s contribution to revamp Calgary’s live theatre and arts hub will be spread out over seven years, with the majority of funds distributed...
How Your “Digital Twin” Will Change The World
In the last decade, thanks to advances in AI, the internet of things, machine learning and sensor technologies, the fantasy of digital twins has...
Report: Global Music Business Up 10 Percent In 2023
Subscription streaming revenues grew by 11.2% YoY last year, accounting for 48.9% of the global market, which in dollar terms, means that subscription streaming revenues reached $14 billion in 2023....
Tennessee Is First State To Legislate AI Protections For Musicians
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of...
Why Piano Competitions Need To Address Gender Imbalance
"The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in the world of classical music, but that women are...
Photographs Are No Longer Proof Of Anything
Not only are digital images infinitely malleable, but the tools to manipulate them are as common as dirt. For anyone paying attention, this has...
Misty Copeland On Connecting Dance With The World
You know, housing crisis, gentrification, homelessness, houselessness. And so, to me, it's, it's, it's a ballet. But, you know, we have different, we have...
AI Is Upending The Foundations Of Copyright Law
Copyright is even embedded in the US Constitution as a tool “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” Now generative AI is...
Indiana Law Now Requires University Professors To Promote “Intellectual Diversity”
A new law in Indiana requires professors in public universities to foster a culture of “intellectual diversity” or face disciplinary actions, including termination for...
How Curators Chose Art For This Year’s Whitney Bienniale
This year’s event, called “Even Better Than The Real Things,” features 71 artists, whose works include short films, sculpture and abstract painting. - Gothamist