Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The 20-Year-Old Transcribing Performances Into Detailed Notation
George Collier takes snippets of videos from live performances by well-known artists like Wynton Marsalis and Celine Dion, or bedroom musicians who’ve posted clips...
A Statistical Portrait Of Artists In Canada
The 202,900 professional artists in Canada represent 1.0% of the national labour force. A finer analysis shows that 1 in every 102 Canadian workers...
EU Passes Landmark AI Legislation, And Will Regulate Use Of Copyright Material
The act places a number of legal and transparency obligations on tech companies and AI developers operating in Europe, including those working in the...
Gen-Z’s Poor Mental Health Comes From Smartphone Culture. We Should Stop It
Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental...
AI – Understanding Versus Finding Patterns
How can these powerful systems beat us in chess but falter on basic math? This paradox reflects more than just an idiosyncratic design quirk....
Will Rethinking Liberal Arts From A Conservative Tradition Make Them Better?
Classical education is premised on the idea that there is objective truth, and that the purpose of school is to set kids on a...
Remembering America’s Most Notorious Art Heist
The legacy of the heist is always apparent to museum visitors who, decades later, still confront vacant frames on the gallery walls where paintings once hung. -...
How Private Equity Companies Are Wrecking The Music Industry
Private equity — the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising the mortality rates at the nursing homes it acquires — is making money by gobbling up the...
Spotify Promoting Audiobooks Using Some Music Industry Techniques
Combined with the promo page and countdown clock, the feature allows authors to engage in fandom in a way that is more typical of...
Historical Fiction Is Hot Right Now. Why?
Can historical fiction even be considered a genre of its own? Its many varieties share few common attributes other than that they all take...
Libraries Struggle to Afford Access To E-Books, Which Are More Expensive Than Paper
While one hardcover copy of a novel costs the library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy — a price that can't...
Pianist Byron Janis, 95
In 1944, Janis became Horowitz’s first student and made his orchestral debut with conductor Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony Orchestra. At 18, he was signed...
The Ideas Behind The Harlem Renaissance
That aggregation of talent, energy and audience created what felt like a moment of rupture and renewal, a chance to reinvent Black life and...
Change In Rules Opens Up Investment For West End Theatre
“This is a once in a generation transformational change that will ensure Britain remains the global capital of creativity,” stated composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber....
Philanthropy As A Business Model
First, and most simply, philanthropy is most certainly a business model, or at least the core of such a model, because it is at...
Government Regulators Need AI Experts. They Just Can’t Pay (Well) For Them
As governments spin up new AI programs, regulators around the world are urgently trying to hire AI experts. But some of the job ads...
Personality Typing Is A Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. Why Do We Want To Be Typed?
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today, thanks to the century-long ascendence of behavioral analysis and...
Reframing The History Of Modernism Outside Of Its Eurocentric Story
“The main issue is Eurocentric modernism and its history, which can be dealt with by redefining modernism and re-writing its history. How can this...
Sweden Is At The Forefront Of Music Technology. Is There Something In The Water?
Some music tech entrepreneurs argue the speed at which AI tools are growing globally is also putting pressure on Stockholm's well-oiled music tech ecosystem....
Defining The Great American Novels
In setting out to identify that new American canon, we decided to define American as having first been published in the United States (or intended to...
Josh Kosman: Sizing Up Salonen’s Time At The San Francisco Symphony
Even after regular concerts resumed in earnest that fall, there was still that faint shadow across the proceedings, a sense that we had all...
Who Might Replace Salonen At The San Francisco Symphony?
While American orchestras have a propensity for pursuing and hiring conductors from abroad, MTT’s success here might lead SFS to consider hiring an American....
A First: JRR Tolkien Poetry To Be Published
“Poetry was the first way in which Tolkien expressed himself creatively and through it the seeds of his literary ambition would be sown." -...
What Should Museums Pay Artists For Participating In A Biennial?
These days, payment for inclusion in a biennial or group show at a US museum tends to range from $500 to $3,000, according to...
How Tech Is Changing Learning The Piano
A lifetime since my failure to practise prompted a family agreement that the piano wasn’t for me, I’m back at the keys. This time...
