Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue” Is The Best-Selling Jazz Album Of All Time. He...
When I tell people that I missed what I was trying to do on Kind of Blue, that I missed getting the exact sound...
Eyewitness Memory Is Unreliable. Or Is It?
The science of memory has been shifting. A re-evaluation of real-world criminal cases and laboratory experiments suggests that an eyewitness’s confidence in a specific memory can...
Spanish Government Demands Audit Of Reina Sofia Museum Collections
Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory,...
Sonny Rollins As Revolutionary Force
Some musicians evolve, others effect personal revolutions. Rollins is in the latter category, and his work bears the shuddering force of his drastic, self-imposed...
Movie Box Office Memorial Day Weekend Disaster Averted
Studio insiders told TheWrap they were projecting $190 million for the four-day weekend, well below last year’s holiday weekend of $330 million. But Monday...
The Savannah Banana Phenomenon: What It’s Becoming
The Disney comparison is not necessarily a coincidence. Multiple players mention an overlap between Disney fandom (including Disney adults) and bananaball fandom, and Jesse Cole,...
You Couldn’t Design A More Anti-News Internet If You Tried
It’s like an invisible tax levied on our communities that we pay civically, cognitively and sometimes even literally, in the form of higher local...
Spotify: Our AI Pivot Is Better Than Slop
Spotify’s chief executive has defended the company’s move into AI-generated music, claiming it offers users and creators a better alternative to piracy and unregulated...
A 2018 Fire Destroyed 80 Percent Of Brazil’s National Museum Collection. It’s Working To...
The fire on September 2, 2018, began with an electrical issue, but it spiraled out of control when the hydrants next to the building proved...
Remembering Sonny Rollins
He was the last of the Mohicans1 — an essential piece of jazz’s midcentury-modern picture, the only surviving subject in Art Kane’s iconic yearbook photograph A...
Sonny Rollins, And The End Of Easy Answers
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Sonny Rollins is gone at 95 — one of the last giants of the bebop era, the colossus who kept reinventing his own...
Why Has The World Stopped Making Babies?
Some blame technology, particularly smartphones and social media. Others blame a kind of 21st-century weltschmerz—a sadness about the state of the world and our uncertain...
CBS Paramount Drops Copyright Claim Against Colbert After Parody Show
CBS and parent company Paramount have backed away from efforts to limit reposting of Stephen Colbert's mock appearance as host of a Michigan public...
Colleges Are Hemorrhaging Student Enrollment. One Oregon College Hits The Wall
According to the plan released, “We are maintaining an infrastructure built for 30,000 students while currently serving 20,000.” Other options “have been exhausted” and...
Paris’ Pont Neuf Becomes A Stone Grotto
French artist JR has taken over Paris’s Pont Neuf—the oldest bridge over the Seine, and the city’s first built from stone, not wood. JR’s hotly awaited hometown installation La Caverne...
4,500-year-old Structure Recreated Close To Stonehenge
Reaching more than 20 feet in height, the hall was built over the course of nine months by a team of more than 100...
What Impact Does Free Admission Make On Museums?
“What we have seen, across the country, is that institutions that have eliminated admissions have generally not seen an increase in visitation in any...
Gandhi And His Notion Of Micro- And Macro-Morality
Gandhi demonstrated that micro-morality is essential, but not good enough. We have to be morally good people used to looking inside and judging what we...
Maybe We’re Thinking About Ecosystems The Wrong Way
Why do we keep thinking ecosystems have functions they could fail to perform? - Aeon
AI Music, Anthems And Video Is Fueling Alberta’s Separatist Movement
The 20 inauthentic channels analyzed have had nearly 40 million views. Videos use AI-generated deepfakes, often of Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark...
Booktok Sells Tons Of Books. Its Reviews, Though…
While TikTok’s stunted critical language sells legions more books—even good ones—than the literary critics who dismiss the platform, as a doubtfully salable fiction writer...
Theatre Should Be Celebrating Celebrities, Not Bemoaning Them
With our economy stagnant, this situation is not going to improve any time soon, and we need glamour and celebrity to boost sales, particularly...
Behind Book Bans In The Digital Age
I think the library feels like a place where you can do something concrete. You can go to an actual library; you can pull...
Political Drama Wins Cannes Palm d’Or
Cristian Mungiu's Norway-set drama about political polarization, Fjord, has won the Palme d'Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival's top honour for the second time to...
Miles Davis At 100: Still Influencing Music
Davis repeatedly dismantled the sound he had helped invent – embracing the electric age in 1968, much as Bob Dylan had in folk. -...
