Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Report: Americans Are Spending $61/Month On Streaming. Up 27 Percent In A Year
Americans are spending 27% more on streaming than they did last year, up from $48. That $13 increase could have something to do with Netflix and Max raising prices...
A First: Man Convicted Of Streaming Music Fraud
A Danish man has been sentenced to prison in a “historic” case after being found guilty of fraudulently profiting from royalties on hundreds of...
Cambridge University Axes Its Co-Ed Choir. What’s At Stake:
“We are devastated by this decision, which we believe is a fundamentally regressive move for the college, the choral community in Cambridge, and the...
Is UK Arts Funder’s Analysis Of Opera’s Challenges Right?
The report points out – with some perspicacity – that there is a view throughout the industry that whilst opera is an expensive art...
Australian Report Questions Payments To Academic Publishers
The Australia Institute report, released on Wednesday, questioned if more public money should be used for research and education instead of being directed to international...
The San Diego Museum Is Selling Buildings. What About The Art?
The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate, aimed at artists and audiences in the border...
COVID Was Supposed To Spark A City Doom Loop. Instead, They’ve Bounced Back
Twenty-five of America’s 26 largest downtowns have more residents today than they did on the eve of the pandemic. Meanwhile, both violent and property crime plummeted...
Cast Off Your Streaming! Free Blockbuster Now!
The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction and eventually, more than 200 other community boxes had opened from Louisiana to Canada and even Britain...
Do We Live In An Age Of Cultural Stagnation?
Cast your eyes across this burgeoning literature of cultural stagnation—now so voluminous it counts as an authentic subgenre in its own right—and you won’t...
This Musician Has Been Streamed 15 Billion Times Under Fake Artist Accounts On Spotify
Johan Röhr is behind over 2,700 songs that have been released under various fake artist names on Spotify. His music across all of these pseudonymous artist accounts...
What Does It Mean To Be An Artist In The Era Of Everyone-Has-A-Camera-At-All-Times?
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what...
End Of An Era: Gannett Newspapers Ends Relationship With AP Wire
The news ends a deep and decades-long relationship between one of the world’s largest news organizations and one of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers....
Cities Were Supposed To Be The Future. In The 21st Century They’ve Become A...
Never is it discussed that a cordoned-off, highly policed, highly regulated urban fabric of the kind that exists in every metropolitan center in the...
Justice Department Sues Apple Over Antitrust
In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their...
American Youth Symphony Shuts Down
The American Youth Symphony, which shut down on Friday, is — or rather was — one of the few large national organizations involved in the vital transition...
Reinventing The Concert Subscription
"Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay...
Our Constant Entertainment Culture Has Trapped Us In The Metaverse
Dystopias often share a common feature: Amusement, in their skewed worlds, becomes a means of captivity rather than escape. - The Atlantic
Is China’s Love Affair With The Piano Waning?
Piano lessons for children were all the rage not too many years ago, but that trend seems to have withered, while lessons in traditional...
And Now… The Scary Immersive Theatre Experience
"A scared-sounding young man told me that there was a monster in his closet. Obviously, I was supposed to tell him to open the...
Banksy Tree Mural Defaced With White Paint Days After It Appeared
Despite being surrounded by a protective metal fence, white paint was thrown onto the artwork and discovered by local residents on the morning of...
Machine Breakthrough In Reading Ancient Texts
Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 columns of ancient Greek text from within a carbonized papyrus...
Silicon Valley Disruption Comes To A Books Model
Authors Equity brings Silicon Valley–style startup disruption to the business of books. It has a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network...
The Artworld Hoax That Fooled Virginia Woolf
For most of their adult lives, the two women employed an elaborate hoax in which Hepworth’s paintings were exhibited and sold under Preece’s name....
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Leisure reading has been linked to a range of good academic and professional outcomes—as well as difficult to fully explain. But a chief factor seems to be the...
Review Of Arts Council England As Agency Under Fire
The UK scientist Mary Archer will scrutinise how Arts Council England (ACE) distributes public subsidies as part of a wide-ranging review overseen by the...
