Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why The Music Business Is Collapsing Around Us
A generation ago, this kind of laziness didn’t exist in the music business. Before streaming, everybody in the value chain needed new music. The...
Gen Z Has Discovered The Public Library
Gen Z seems to love public libraries. A November report from the American Library Association (ALA) drawing from ethnographic research and a 2022 survey found that gen...
Why Is France’s Oscars Committee So Bad?
Over the last three decades, a number of French movies have earned Oscar recognition, but none have been the official French Oscar submission. -...
Universities — The Essential Ingredient Should Be Free Speech
Teaching a subject is important; it is also in a sense incidental. The classroom is, first and foremost, a place to train young minds...
How “Conglomerate” Publishing Works
I found that, if we look beyond just “authors”—if we also take into account agents, scouts, editors, marketers, managers of subsidiary rights, wholesalers, distributors,...
Art, Oligarchs And Fraud
We think of oligarchy as a foreign concept, but the truth is that American oligarchs abound, and many of them collect art. It’s a time-honored...
Reconsidering “Rhapsody In Blue” As It Turns 100
It is easy, and accurate, to call “Rhapsody in Blue” naïve and corny. But, to be fair, it was still very early in the...
Major Museums Remove Native Artifacts In Response To New Federal Rules
The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said on Friday, in a dramatic response...
David Brooks: For A Kinder, Gentler World? It’s Culture Above Politics
"I confess I still cling to the old faith that culture is vastly more important than politics or some pre-professional training in algorithms and...
Are Those Immersive Van Gogh Shows Just A Money Grab?
Leading digital artists have claimed that some of the most popular commercial immersive experiences, particularly those based on the work of deceased artists, such...
This Year’s Whitney Biennial Reflects The Chaotic Precariousness Of Now
The drastic phase of the pandemic, with its restrictions, may have receded. But the landscape left in its wake is a panorama of compounding...
Flailing NPR Hires A Non-Journalist As Its Next CEO
Before joining Web Summit, she spent seven years as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, where she drove growth in global readership and impact while...
So The Oscars Say “Barbie” Is An “Adapted” Screenplay? It Doesn’t Make Sense
Moving “Barbie” from the best original screenplay category — where it was the probable winner over films like “The Holdovers” and “Past Lives” —...
First-Ever Study: What Works Dance Companies Worldwide Are Performing This Season
Among the 33 global companies studied, 23.6% of works in the 2023/2024 season are choreographed by women. - Dance Data Project
Amanda Palmer On Why Crowdfunding Works
It’s the opposite of magic: it’s a salary that I pull from a community that trusts me. - The Big Idea
Consider The Cultural Meaning Of The Hoodie
Perhaps no other garment is so charged, or so fraught, in this country as the hoodie. - The Point
The Inherent Difficulties In Writing About Office Work
Unfortunately, for those of us who write about them, white-collar workplaces are not inherently high-drama. As an employee, this is ideal. For a nonfiction...
Study: Arts Impact On The Cincinnati Economy Is $1.6 Billion
The impacts of the arts go beyond annual operating expenses, data shows. The $751 million in capital investments since 2015 have generated an additional...
Next Up: Holographic Professors (Students Love It)
Prof Vikki Locke, the director of undergraduate studies at Loughborough business school, said students “absolutely love” the technology and have been begging for selfies...
The Academy Clearly Doesn’t Understand “Barbie”
Before the nominations, there were whispers that snobbery would derail the film’s Oscar hopes, but the results show some puzzlement on the part of...
Four Ways AI Is Changing Music
AI tools analyse vast amounts of music data to learn patterns and styles, enabling them to generate compositions in any genre. This technology is not just...
Climate Disaster Movies Make More Impact Than Journalism
The power of cinema in communicating the climate crisis is undeniable. This is becoming increasingly apparent in my own research on the history of the environmental...
Entities Cranking Out Fake Research Papers Have A New Tactic — Bribing Editors
Cash-rich paper mills have evidently adopted a new tactic: bribing editors and planting their own agents on editorial boards to ensure publication of their...
Greil Marcus On The Art Of Writing Criticism
"I realized I had a choice as a writer: make the world bigger and more interesting and live in that world, and find a...
Performer In Marina Abramovic’s Nude Performance in 2010, Sues Museum Of Modern Art
"A performance artist who participated as a nude performer in the 2010 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present” has...