Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Gabriel García Márquez Didn’t Want His Last Book Published. This Week It Was. Is...
The novel was published this week, unleashing a backlash from scholars, writers and fans who’ve taken exception not with the novel itself, but rather...
A Competition For Playing Chopin? It Has No Credibility
Giving marks to people playing a Chopin polonaise is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics, dressage and judo at the Olympic Games,...
Are Auction Sales Guarantees Fair?
How does this practice affect the market? The art market is self-regulating, and since 2010 the practice of offering works at auction with third-party...
Post-Pandemic: Broadway Attendance Down, Also Movies, But Pop Concerts And Orchestras Up And Museums...
The Philadelphia Orchestra is averaging 78 percent attendance so far this season, compared with 63 percent before the pandemic. The New York Philharmonic is...
Historical Movies Like “Oppenheimer” Shape Historical Records. We Should Be Clear How
With Oppenheimer having received so much commercial, critical and Academy success, we have an opportunity to think about critical criteria for viewing historical film — and...
What AI Is Learning About What Life Is
While some skeptics think the models are going to hit a wall, more optimistic scientists believe that foundation models will even tackle the biggest...
Today’s Journalists Come From A Different Economic Class. Here’s How It Changes Their Work
Contemporary journalists have a relationship to ideas that is more or less the opposite of the old school’s. It begins before they even get...
UK Study: 2023 Audiences Rebounded From The Pandemic
Overall tickets sales in 2023 were 101% of what they were in 2019, the last complete year of data before Covid. More than half...
AI Researchers Warn They’re Being Priced Out
Fei-Fei Li is at the forefront of a growing chorus of academics, policymakers and former employees who argue the sky-high cost of working with...
Amateur Ballerina Held By Russia After $50 Donation To Ukraine Charity
Russian authorities apparently accessed Ksenia Karelina’s phone and discovered she had donated approximately $50 to Razom, a pro-Ukrainian charity, in 2022. - The Guardian
If We’re So Polarized, What Is The Culpability Of Technology?
So what is the ideology of the Internet? An optimist might invoke the idea of democratization, pointing to the medium’s ability to amplify otherwise...
Editor William Whitworth’s Outsized Influence On The Atlantic Magazine
Bill was a mentor to two generations of writers—writers of narrative reporting, primarily, but also novelists, biographers, intellectuals, essayists, and humorists. He expanded The Atlantic’s...
Why Theatre Resonates: What A 19th Century Ibsen Play Has To Say About Today
It would be challenging to find a 19th century drama that speaks as directly to our pandemic-scarred society as this one. - Los Angeles...
Arnold Schoenberg’s Hollywood
He played tennis with George Gershwin, who idolized him. He delighted in the American habits of his children, who, to the alarm of other...
Yerba Buena CEO Quits After Controversy
Sara Fenske Bahat’s departure follows weeks of turmoil at the center. After artists Jeffrey Cheung and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo alleged that YBCA prevented them from...
UNESCO Talks About Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage
The Unesco convention defines intangible cultural heritage as: “Practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated...
NY Times Co-Chief Art Critic To Retire After 32 Years, 4,500 Reviews
Roberta Smith started freelancing for The New York Times in 1986, after writing for Art in America and The Village Voice, and after a...
Proposed Law To Increase Streaming Royalty To A Penny A Stream
Streaming has grown to represent 84 percent of recorded music industry revenue, but that Spotify, the leading music streaming platform, only pays an average...
Those Round-Up Purchase Donations Have Added Up To Be Big Money
In 2022 alone, charities raised $749 million nationwide through so-called point-of-sale donations, a 24% jump from 2020, according to Engage for Good, which tracks...
The Evolutionary Roots Of Our Attraction To Music
Groups that could make music together - whether a simple drumbeat or a beautiful melody - were more cohesive, communicative, cooperative and defensive. Natural...
Technology And Teaching The Violin. What Will AI Change?
A team at the University of Maryland (UMD) has received almost a million dollars from the US National Science Foundation (USNSF) to study the...
Report: Children Become Discouraged From Reading By Adult Judgment
“Children have told us that they think that reading choices are judged by the adults around them,” said Cassie Chadderton, CEO of World Book...
Study: Big Increase In Retail Record Shops In The UK
A study by the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) finds that there are now 461 indie record shops in the UK, 122 more...
Museums Are Buying As Private Sales Decline
Museums are increasingly important buyers at TEFAF Maastricht, as the number of private individuals purchasing old master pictures, sculptures and antiques has declined. - The New...
Have A Conversation With A New Marilyn Monroe AI Chatbot
The AI-generated Digital Marilyn chatbot lets you interact “in real-time using advanced natural language processing, deep learning and GPT 3.5,” Soul Machines said in...
