Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Five Ideas To Fix Spotify
Music revenues were up 6.4% last year, marking its eleventh consecutive year of growth. The industry has doubled since 2014 and there are now...
How AI Killed Off The Princeton Honor Code
A study of thousands of students at Rutgers University found that, in 2017, a majority copied their homework answers from the internet. AI has...
Pianist Sues Melbourne Symphony Over “Free Speech”
The British Australian musician is suing the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for discrimination based on political belief, after it cancelled one of his scheduled performances. His recital...
Chief People Officer – Jacob’s Pillow via TOC Arts Partners
Jacob's Pillow seeks a Chief People Officer.
AI writes Molière. Higher ed wobbles.
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Three AI stories today are doing roughly the same thing in different professions. The Sorbonne fed Molière to a language model and got...
Two Women Who Shaped Houston’s Art Scene For Decades
Maybe these two weren’t wildcatters or captains of industry, but their contributions to the cultural life of Houston and its global reputation as a...
The Politics Behind Israel And The Eurovision Song Competition
This previously undisclosed diplomatic push to keep Israel in Eurovision was just one aspect of a drama that unfolded over the past year around...
Opera Production Canceled After A Single Complaint
The Minack Theatre at Porthcurno pulled a planned production of Léo Delibes’s Lakmé after a US-based Hindu campaigner described the opera as “shallow exoticism based on...
Maybe Resilience Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does?
Part of the appeal is that calling someone resilient in the endurance sense sounds kind. It feels like encouragement rather than judgment. But communicating...
Researchers Use AI To Write New Moliere
More than 350 years after his death, the 17th-century dramatist has been revived after scholars at the Sorbonne University in Paris used artificial intelligence to help...
Inside The Ransomware Attack On Education
Hackers who had previously targeted Google and Ticketmaster had purposely chosen now, when college finals are happening, to threaten Instructure, the company that makes...
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...
Managing Director, Sarasota Opera
Sarasota Opera welcomes applications and nominations for the newly defined position of Managing Director, available in the summer of 2026.
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
Director of Marketing & Sales – Morrison Center, Boise, ID
Come join The Morrison Center for the Performing Arts team in growing Boise, ID as a full-time Director of Marketing & Sales
Seeking Creative and Admin Assistant
Director and writer Annie Dorsen is looking for a creative and administrative assistant.
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...
