Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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...
Roger Wright Graduates From Aldeburgh
Concert planning and programming are still what he likes doing most of all, he says, but nonetheless he has found himself running an operation...
If Your Mind’s Eye Can’t Form Pictures As You Think…
If you ask me to describe someone I cannot see at that moment, or something, I have no idea how to do it since...
Report: Huge Disparities In Gender, Race, In Programming Among 111 Orchestras
The recent analysis of 16,327 compositions scheduled for performances revealed that 7.5% of works were composed by women (down from 7.7% in the 2021/22 report...
Giant Publisher Wiley Shuts 19 Scientific Journals — They Were Paper Mills
The journals that were withdrawn were all owned by Hindawi, a company Wiley bought in January 2021, that was later discovered to have a paper mill problem at...
In The Absence Of Support By Publishers, UK Authors Are Doing Their Own PR
According to independent events planners, publicists and marketers, more and more authors are seeking out their services to augment the efforts of their publishers’...
Vandals Deface King Charles’ Official Portrait
Members of the public have been free to visit the portrait of the monarch, which is on display at the Philip Mould gallery in...
What We Lost When Art And Science Split
Today, it is generally assumed that the arts and humanities are more feminine than the sciences. Comparing the two eras shows that our 21st-century...
Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre Reopens After Restoration
In Wright’s days, the venue would host weekly public movie screenings for 50 cents a ticket as well as concerts and other cultural events....
Can Art Save The World? A Conference Debates
“We actually can be the place where discourse happens, where the dialogue about these issues surfaces,” she said. Museums are “safer places to do...
Survey: Most Canadians Got Their Audiobooks For Free In 2023
A recent survey about the reading habits of Canadians conducted by BookNet Canada, which collects and analyzes data about the Canadian book industry, found that a...
Yuval Sharon On Connecting Opera With Today
I’m not an advocate of doing in historically specific productions but look for this place of speculation that connects opera fundamentally with...
Google Is Paying Canadian Broadcasters $100M
Google has agreed to pay $100 million CAD a year — or about $73 million in U.S. dollars — to broadcasters and other news...
California Debates Making Google Pay For Showing News Stories
California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism...
Why Minor Annoyances Can Cost You More Than Big Things
These situations aren’t that bad, and so you don’t do anything about them, whether it be to take action or kickstart psychological processes to cope. - Psyche
Why Is Parthenon Marbles Repatriation So Compelling?
All repatriation cases matter greatly to those involved, but that of the Parthenon marbles has become famous far beyond the dispute between the key...
Latin-American Literature Doesn’t Really Exist
What I’m trying to say is that, if one thinks about it for a moment, it becomes clear that “Latin America” does not exist...
The Impoverishment Of Critics
Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it can’t not. Reading, writing, and...
AI Is Going To Change Music Forever
Just as The Bomb reshaped all of warfare, we’ve reached the point where AI is going to reshape all of music. - Persuasion
