Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Web Video Is Coming To TV. But The Tyranny Of Web Format Is Problematic
How much do we want the internet to be television? A good gimmick for social-media content doesn’t automatically translate to interesting TV, a medium...
Condustor Ryan Wigglesworth On What The Classical Music World Is Now
A new generation – of concert-goers as well as performers – are essential to classical music’s future. Would a Ryan Wigglesworth born today still...
If It’s Art And People Like It, Then…
Our reigning cultural ideology has been poptimism—the idea that if a lot of people like a work of art, then it has to be good....
Is LA Finally Getting The Fringe Theatre Festival It Deserves?
This year’s event has a record number of participants, and is set to break even after operating at a loss for the last two...
How Good Is AI At Spotting Talent? Soccer Teams Are Working On It
For decades, the beautiful game depended on the human eye: a scout on the sideline, attentively watching, waiting for that something special. That process,...
How Do You Prepare For The NBA Finals? Wembanyama Sketches In Gramercy Park
As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe,...
Movie Scores Are Taking Over Orchestra Programs
What used to be a novelty has now become a core staple of symphonic programming in the United States: live soundtracks, performances in which...
California Universities Abandoned The SAT. It’s Been A Disaster
A huge share of STEM and economics faculty across the UC system is now in open revolt—demanding that California’s public universities at least look...
AI Bootleggers Are Stealing Songs, Tweaking Them And Making Money
It was an AI-manipulated version of the band’s 2019 single “Angels Above Me,” sped up with a tweaked lead vocal and a dance-music kick...
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Who Gets Paid When The Machine Sings?
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Follow the money in music today and it loops back on itself. Universal Music is sounding out investors for a roughly $1.5 billion...
Archaeologists Find Intact 18th Century Ship Off Norway
In addition to the well-preserved ceramics, researchers found barrels of grain and an array of high-end European-made goods ranging from chandeliers to stemmed glasses....
Report: Arts Audiences Are Growing In Australia
The survey, conducted since 2009 and last published in 2022, has found that almost all Australians (98%) engage with the arts in some capacity...
Why We Crave Social Interaction
Among humans, “you can feel lonely at a party, or you can feel fine alone in your office." Whatever the ideal degree of togetherness,...
Have You Ever Really Looked Carefully At The Declaration Of Independence?
It’s poetry, philosophy and polemic, all in a little more than 1,300 words and all represented in its second and most famous sentence. -...
Arguing For The Arts: Careful What You Claim
Why aren’t people more careful when it comes to making claims about the benefits of the arts? Quite frankly, because shoddy research and even...
Report: Half Of British Musicians Have Lost EU Work Since Brexit
The report by European Movement UK, a cross-party campaign group advocating closer UK-EU relations, found that nearly half of British musicians had experienced a reduced...
We Have Entered The Imagination Era
We have moved beyond the Information Age and are now firmly rooted in what I call the Imagination Era, a time when ideas and thinking differently...
Study: A High Percentage Of Musicians Are Using AI In their Work
A new study from the Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music found that 33 percent of respondents “use AI to generate initial ideas, melodies, or reference...
Musicians Union Sues UMG And Warner Over License Deals For AI
“The AFM brings this lawsuit because defendants, two of the largest music companies in the world, have licensed sound recordings on which AFM-represented musicians...
Universal Music Group Contemplating A $1.5B Bond Sale
Universal Music has a one euro billion bridge loan, which was arranged earlier this year, that matures in late July – as well as...
How America Lost Control Of Its History
A nation defined by blood and soil—built around a shared religion or ethnicity—can survive divergent narratives. To a country built on an idea, though,...
What I Saw From Inside The Kennedy Center Meltdown
Palermo also said Trump's Truth Social post about handing control back to Congress sounded like an attempt to distance himself from an institution. He...
Austin Opera seeks Director of Artistic Administration
The Director of Artistic Administration oversees Austin Opera’s artistic staff and works closely with the executive leadership to plan and execute season programming.
The Problem With Responses To AI Creations
At its core, this is a debate about values. A short story implies a human artistic act with intentional imaginative labour—the exact practice whose...
