Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Colorado’s Storied Tattered Cover Books Is Sold To Barnes And Noble
Tattered Cover has faced a difficult financial situation in recent years. The local bookstore chain has been staving off bankruptcy for years under two...
Why Your Local Bank Branch Looks More Like A Starbucks These Days
Increasingly, customers are visiting physical banks to receive guidance on products such as mortgages, loans and financial planning, while accessing more basic services online....
Tonys Takeaway: Regional Theatre Should Be Bold — Non-Profits Do It Better
One obvious point is that if you’re looking to develop a winner, an off-Broadway or regional theater is the way to go. For all...
Martin Amis And The Primacy Of Words And Style
“Style isn’t something you apply later,” Amis said in 2021, explaining why he couldn’t abide JM Coetzee. “It’s embedded in your perception, and writers...
Technology Didn’t Kill Handwriting. Bad Penmanship Has Always Been A Problem
Even in an age when people frequently wrote by hand, messy and at times illegible handwriting was still a common problem. They even had...
Can We Inherit Memories From One Generation To The Next?
Scientists working in the emerging field of epigenetics have discovered the mechanism that allows lived experience and acquired knowledge to be passed on within...
AI Is Already Killing Web Publishers
The rise of web-connected LLMs is rapidly undermining traditional web publishing. It’s clear industry professionals are deeply concerned. LLMs reduce human web traffic, evade...
Baltimore Should Get An Iconic Bridge To Replace Key Bridge
The city deserves a replacement that is similarly expressive of the working harbor’s importance to the city and its location as a gateway between...
Remembering Poet Thom Gunn
Gunn’s early poetry was erudite, witty, and elegantly wrought, but it was usually coolly detached, framed in meter and rhyme. As he progressed as...
Met Opera Ticket Sales For 2023-24 Were Up
The Metropolitan Opera revealed its finances for 2023-24 season, including the fact that it had sold 72 percent of available tickets. The number was...
Florida Governor Vetoes Millions In Arts Grants
The Governor vetoed $32 million in grants that would have supported 663 arts and culture organizations around the State of Florida through the Division of...
A Plan To Save The Internet Through TikTok
Frank McCourt thinks that if he takes control of TikTok, he could save the entire internet. - Wired
Report: Music Industry Grew ~11 Percent In 2023
The 10.74% YoY growth rate – representing an increase of about $600 million in raw dollar terms – is little more than half the...
Music Publishers Accuse Spotify Of Charging More, Paying Less
The additional revenue from the higher Premium subscription costs may not go to the music composers. According to the FTC complaint, Spotify will pay...
Reconnecting Lincoln Center To Its West Side
The design team needs to start by reimagining Lincoln Center as a full square. Currently, three sides of Lincoln Center welcome the public with...
AI-Free — The New Organic?
Writers and media outlets are slapping disclaimers and “No AI” declarations on blogs and websites. A classical radio station in Omaha issued a “No AI” pledge, and the Perth...
AI Photography Contest Falls Apart When Winner Is Revealed To Be Human
A juried photography contest has disqualified one of the images that was originally picked as a top three finisher in its new AI art...
Paul Jacobs: Why Doesn’t New York’s Geffen Hall Have A Real Organ?
Administrators opted to install another electronic (or 'digital') organ, a substitute for the real thing. This misguided decision, made hastily during the malaise of...
In Praise Of Generous Critics
Generosity, commensurability, conversation—how calm, how dispassionate these words can seem. They do not, however, mean that the critic must be uncritical or mild-mannered. Far...
Why Is Pop Music Doing So Badly This Year?
Making pop hits has always been a crapshoot. But today, with the world awash in content, TikTok rewriting labels’ playbooks and listeners burrowing deeper...
Amazon Added Ads To Prime Video. Now Online Ad Rates Are Cratering
Prime Video’s large ad-supported subscriber base means it has a significant amount of ad inventory that is affecting the negotiations that Netflix, YouTube, TV...
Leaked Google Search Algorithm Documentation Gives Clues To How Your Content Is Found
Some of the information revealed appears to contradict claims that the company has made publicly. One variable that Google Search apparently tracks is when...
Five Books To Help You Get Past Your Creative Block
Blocks tend to crop up when we put undue pressure on ourselves to perform or to attempt lofty tasks. These books dispense practical advice...
Exit Interview: Longtime Dallas Arts Reporter Jerome Weeks Retires
The Dallas Arts District is just a microcosm of the growth and expansion that's happened after the Dallas Museum of Art and the Meyerson...
Opera As A Network Of Collaboration
Presented in Los Angeles by MOCA and the director Yuval Sharon’s company of operatic experimenters, the Industry, “The Comet/Poppea” was commissioned by the American Modern Opera...
