Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Pirates: The Story Of How Music Got To Be Free
Starting back in the 1980s, an illegal demimonde of teens began. Their initial goal was to strip the copyright protections off video games. By...
Houston’s Stages Theatre Picks A New Leader
When he moves to Houston in August to take on that role, he'll become one of the first Black men to lead a major...
Large Study: Internet Might Be Good For Our Wellbeing
We might look for clues in a new global study from Oxford University that spanned 16 years and surveyed 2.4 million people. The findings suggest that...
Naples Announces New Mega-Museum As Part Of Massive Cultural Investment
Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, himself a Neapolitan, has showered funds on the ambitious cultural heritage projects in his hometown. “Naples is a global...
Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Says It Will Try To Recontextualize Controversial Statue
The museum announced last week a major effort to fight against the image created by the exhibit. As part of an ongoing series, the museum will invite...
Donald Duck Turns 90. Here’s How He’s Changed
By 1940, Walt Disney himself referred to Donald Duck as “the Gable of our stable” – pairing Donald’s popularity with the Hollywood superstar Clark Gable, the...
Canadian Regulators: Foreign Streamers Will Have To Pay To Be In Canada
Online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute five per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system,...
Class Action Suit Against Christie’s Over Cyberhack
The complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on June 3 alleges that Christie’s was unable to protect the “personally identifiable information”,...
How Do We Define Banning Books Today?
The practice of censoring books has been around for centuries. But what does it actually mean to ban a book today? - NPR
Why Are Today’s Debut Novels Failing To Launch?
Almost everyone mentioned that debut fiction has become harder to launch. For writers, the stakes are do or die: A debut sets the bar...
Warning: AI Is Eating The World
Leaders in all industries, terrified of missing out on the next big thing, are signing checks and inking deals, perhaps not knowing what precisely...
We All Know Theatre’s Odd Traditions. Here’s What’s Behind Them
No matter if it's a local stage show or a major Broadway production — or if it's a comedy, musical, or drama — these...
Today’s Students Haven’t Learned To Read Cursive. Is This A Problem?
Who else can’t read cursive? I asked the class. The answer: about two-thirds. And who can’t write it? Even more. What did they do...
Podcasting Is Contracting. Budgets, Staff, Shrinking
The ramifications of this contracted environment have varied. Teams are making do with less by reducing the number of episodes they produce or by...
Oregon Ballet Theatre Has A Record Season At The Box Office
I think that we have adjusted some of our programmatic models. You know, some of the data had been showing us that post-pandemic audiences...
Los Angeles, City Of Opera
The expected grandeur, the time and space business, the big emotions, big ideas and big voices, we’ve got it all. That's to be expected....
AI’s Art Style Problem
This seems like the reality that these A.I. tools will force us to reckon with: They promise to do for style what the internet did for content, dramatically...
Neuroscience Study: Negative Artist Bio Information Influences Perception Of Their Art
Researchers found that after learning negative information about the artists, participants rated the paintings less favorably. Specifically, paintings by artists associated with negative biographical...
Is AI Leading Us To Rethink Art?
So why are artists dabbling with A.I.? And do they risk being extinguished by it? - The New York Times
Florida Grand Opera Appoints A New Director
Maria Todaro, an accomplished singer, stage director, fight choreographer and arts entrepreneur is stepping into her biggest role yet, ushering in an ambitious rebrand...
San Francisco Opera, On A Financial Cliff, Looks To Asia
As the West’s oldest still-operational opera company faces a steep financial cliff, there’s another aria being sung across the Pacific Ocean—one SF Opera stands...
Archaeologists Discover Stunning Blue Room In Pompeii
The stunning blue-ground walls are decorated with female figures representing the four seasons and allegorical representations of agriculture and pastoralism, according to experts. -...
Book Publishing Is A Collaborative Art. Time To Acknowledge Everyone Who Works On It
Unseen and unacknowledged labor is as central to book publishing as Republican politicians being overpaid to write books that no one except their own...
Hot In London: Immersive Theatre With A Meal
Striving for a high-level experience also means embedding accuracy into the menu itself. For The Great Murder Mystery, the team at the Lost Estate...
Finally Fed Up With Instagram, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Artists Leave For Startup Rival
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000...
