Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Let Your Phone Condense And Describe Books. What Could Go Wrong?
The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of...
Sony Chief: Company To Focus On Entertainment Rather Than Devices
Yoshida said the company is now emphasizing the creative process itself instead of prized products of the past like the Walkman portable music player...
What Accounts For The Difference In Energy From One Person To Another?
“Some people are more alive than others. Even permanently so.” I find that true to my own experience, even if it is hard to...
Entertainment Jobs Are Leaving Hollywood
Production has been slipping away from Hollywood since the 1950s, but the effects have never been more apparent than at present. - Los Angeles...
The Sad State Of Wisconsin’s Public Arts Support
"In the state of Wisconsin, we have very little public sector support for the arts. So, whereas in other cities, these gaps that exist...
BBC To Release To Previously Unheard Louis Armstrong Performances
Unheard performances by Louis Armstrong at the BBC in 1968, regarded by Armstrong aficionados as some of the jazz legend’s greatest work, are to finally be...
Calgary Philharmonic Removes Two Musicians For Their Comments
The exact comments that triggered the investigation have not been disclosed, nor has the reasoning for the musicians’ removal from the orchestra – including...
How Google’s Search AI Will Kill Web Publishers
While links to external websites do appear below the AI-generated answers, some publishers and groups such as the News Media Alliance are afraid that they will...
US To File Anti-Trust Suit Seeking To Break Up LiveNation And TicketMaster
Among the practices the department plans to challenge are exclusive ticketing contracts that Ticketmaster has with many of the venues where high-profile acts perform....
Our Complicated Relationship With Nostalgia
Even if nostalgia is a less “dangerous emotion” today than it seems to have been to the Swiss soldiers, it well deserves to be...
How Our Phones Have Warped The Ways We See The World
Your phone mirrors the world back to you. But what you see is the world you want to see—a “frictionless,” “responsive,” “immediate,” “obedient,” “commercialized,”...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Shows Signs Of Revival
The reason for the return to larger-cast shows gets at the heart of what makes the 89-year-old company unique. OSF is one of the...
How Cliches Limit Our Thinking
Since the moment I learned about the concept of the “thought-terminating cliche” I’ve been seeing them everywhere I look. - The Guardian
Behind The ChatGPT/Scarlett Johansson Debacle
At the core of these deflections is an implication: The hypothetical superintelligence they are building is too big, too world-changing, too important for prosaic...
Boston Symphony Names New Concertmaster
Nathan Cole, 46, fills a seat that has been vacant since the 2019 retirement of Malcolm Lowe, who served as concertmaster for 35 years. -...
Tom Lehrer Is A Biting Satirist And Still Alive At 96. So Why Did...
Was it because, as a child mathematics prodigy, he wanted to fulfil his real vocation and become a great mathematician? Apparently not. He taught...
Investigation: 1000 Damien Hirst Works Weren’t Made When He Said They Were
At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal. - The Guardian
After Decades Of Being Youth-Obsessed, TV Gets Comfortable With The Old
Most people watching TV are older than those groups. Among cable channels, the median age for TNT and Bravo viewers is 56, for HGTV...
How A Denver Performing Arts Center Thrives On Free Shows And Community Trust
With more than 40 free shows this season, and only 10 that charge for tickets, Levitt has built trust and audiences through a highly...
A Short History Of Over-The-Top Art World Feuds
Here are four more beefs between art-world honchos, spanning from the ‘50s to the aughts, that are, regardless of when they took place, truly...
Opera Australia Posts A $4.9 Million Deficit
Marking the milestone of 50 years of performing at the Sydney Opera House in 2023, OA presented 30 productions: 14 operas, 13 concerts and...
Public Radio’s Foundation Is Leaking. Some Real Planning Is In Order
Just like with the plumbing in our house, public radio can’t wait any longer to take action on the leaks in its foundation. They...
Diversity Problem: Few UK Arts Workers Come From The Working Class
While 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make...
Study: Are AI Large Language Models Developing Theory Of Mind?
What defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. Large language models (LLMs)...
What Our Inner Voices Tell Us
For psychologists and other researchers, inner speech presents a puzzle – it’s a huge part of our lives, yet so difficult to study. After...
