Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Report: Trump’s Kennedy Center Boss Is Largely AWOL From The Job
Ric Grenell, a former Trump ambassador to Germany and longtime Republican attack dog, is “only occasionally at the Kennedy Center,” a source told CBS News....
Anthropic Argues In Its Copyright Appeal Case That Settlement Would Put It Out Of...
As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class...
Seeking General Manager for Gibney Company
The General Manager is a full-time executive leadership role overseeing administrative direction of Gibney Company, reporting directly to Founder, Artistic Director, & CEO Gina Gibney.
If Cinema Is Dying, There’s Still Plenty To Say
Its infirmity has a number of culprits: superhero box office dominance, short-form videos eroding attention spans, streaming services hollowing out theatrical exhibition. - The Walrus
Public Media’s Slow Motion Crisis
For dozens of stations that depend heavily on federal dollars, a slow-motion crisis is now unfolding; many are already downsizing and cutting programming, and...
How Hollywood Is Pivoting To Conservative Audiences
The red-state audience that Hollywood is chasing isn’t a monolith, and there’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly...
The Individualist Trap: Hard To Believe In The Future
If you have a world in which everyone is encouraged to be a total individualist, they tend to get trapped in that mindset. It’s...
Inhabiting The Machine: Make Peace Or Fight?
Machines no longer assist our lives from the outside; they increasingly define the conditions under which we think, work, and relate. And here Skidelsky...
If AI Really Can Make Movies, Then What Does Hollywood Become?
Luma’s generative AI platform, Dream Machine, debuted last year and points toward a new kind of moviemaking, one where anyone can make release-grade footage...
Why The Library Model Is A Great Business Model
What if long-term success is more about building environments where people feel inspired, curious, and connected? That’s what libraries do. And that’s what the...
How Spirituality Went From Uncool To Trendy In The Art World
The turn we are witnessing is wide-ranging, encompassing everything from an interest in esoteric rituals and the occult to the amplification of Indigenous, non-Western,...
How Anglo Literature Lost Its Global Influence
The imperialistic premise in this idea of literature as an egalitarian conversation between national traditions is blatant: as Milan Kundera remarked, what it took...
What Robert Wilson Meant For The Avant Garde
What made Wilson’s divergence from theatrical and classical conventions so powerful was his clear reverence for them — the careful, conscientious approach he took...
LA Arts Philanthropist Glorya Kaufman, 95
Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist who transformed dance in Los Angeles through the establishment of an eponymous dance school at USC as well as a...
Where Have All The Horses Gone? We Struggle To Accept The Future And Let...
Everything is public now, potentially: one’s thoughts, one’s photos, one’s movements, one’s purchases. There is no privacy and apparently little desire for it in...
Should Ideas Be Free? How Big Thinkers Have Thought About Intellectual Property
Should owning an idea be treated the same way as owning a physical object, or are these two forms of property rights ultimately incomparable? -...
How Artists Are Using AI At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
It is an uncertainty that haunts the AI-themed plays on this year’s Edinburgh fringe. It also accounts for their apocalyptic mood. Do we even...
Reimagining How To Teach In The Age Of AI
Through a combination of oral examinations, one-on-one discussions, community engagement and in-class projects, the professors I spoke with are revitalizing the experience of humanities...
The Impact Of NEA Funding On Small Presses
For most publishers, the grants are not generous enough to sustain an entire catalog, especially when compared to how tedious and time-consuming the application...
NPR’s Way Forward Post-Funding-Hack
Citing a study from the consultancy Public Media Company, she said 78 of 246 members are in imminent danger of going dark. - Washington...
As It Ever Was: Sony Music Sues Napster Over Unpaid Royalties
The lawsuit cited four licensing agreements that allowed Napster to stream Sony Music’s catalog of recordings. According to the 17-page court document, Napster accumulated $6.79...
Being A Perfectionist Is A Curse
At first blush, it can be hard to take perfectionism seriously as a source of suffering. The lament “I’m a perfectionist” carries a strong...
Yes You Can Get Wiser As You Get Older. But Also Stupider Too
In the second half of life, we’re all expected to say how much happier we are than in our insecure twenties, how we wouldn’t...
Public Radio Stations That Are Well-Positioned To Absorb Federal Funding Cuts
They’ve built syndication businesses, production studios, national programming, university partnerships, cross-media tie-ups, statewide networks, and a thousand other things meant to strengthen the institution....
UCLA: Trump $584M Cuts Are A “Death Knell” For School’s Research
The University of California president on Wednesday said Trump administration grant suspensions at UCLA total $584 million, cuts that would be a “death knell”...
