Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Spotify Losses Narrow After Price Increases
Spotify narrowed its loss to 70 million euros, equivalent to about $75 million, in the final quarter, from €270 million a year earlier. Revenue...
This Year’s Classical Grammy Winners
Elaine Martone won Producer of the Year, Classical, for a bouquet of albums including Third Coast Percussion’s Between Breaths, Seth Parker Woods’ Difficult Grace, and the Cleveland Orchestra...
TikTok Users Frustrated As Music Goes Away
“Half my drafts are muted now,” says Madeline Macrae, a Swift fan and TikTok creator. While initially frustrated by the change, Macrae thinks there might...
How Your Spotify Algorithms Are Changing Your Musical Taste
While you might look at your daylist and think that Spotify knows your music tastes intimately, it is equally the case that the algorithm...
Struggling With What Art Is For. But Why?
Is art for one thing only? Do we need—why do I feel the need?—to formulate a Grand Unified Theory of art, one that would...
New Santa Barbara Museum Director Under Fire For Canceling Show, Dismissing Curator
The decisions by Amanda Cruz prompted a searing response from the affected artists, who called her actions “outrageous” and “appalling” and said they continued...
London’s Globe Theatre Pushes Back On Notion That Only Disabled Actors Should Be Cast...
The Globe released a social-media statement defending the casting, saying that although they “recognise the barriers to access in our industry and are...
UK Fails To Agree On AI Code For Creative Work
The failure of the UK talks comes as AI has caused alarm among artists, authors, musicians and media groups who are concerned that their...
Rachmaninoff’s Oldest Student Is 99 Years Old
Rachmaninoff, who was in the prime of his enormous career, was so impressed with her that he offered to teach Ruth Slenczynska at his...
Simon Woods Talks With John Williams
It could be argued that Williams is the best friend American orchestras have ever had. His orchestral film scores are many Americans’ first encounter...
Streaming Has Become Cable TV. Look At All The Ads!
Analysts are projecting that the changes will generate billions of dollars in revenue for Amazon. If viewers pay for the ad-free tier, that’s $3...
A New Model For Theatre Seems To Be Thriving
“We couldn’t make this production in a nonprofit model—we don’t have that structure. We have a bookstore and a coffee shop that sustains itself,...
Audible Feeling The Heat From Spotify’s New AudioBook Plans
The concerns were unveiled during an internal all-hands meeting this week, where Audible CEO Bob Carrigan addressed employee inquiries about the company’s focus on...
Charter Passes Comcast As America’s Biggest Cable Company
Its secret? Losing customers more slowly than its rivals. - The Wall Street Journal
Does Vandalizing Art Really Help The Cause Of Climate Change Activists?
With today’s political institutions largely focused on short-term desires over long-term planetary health, and global climate negotiations moving too slowly to meet the challenge, climate activists...
Spotify Signs Joe Rogan Podcast to Deal Worth ~$250 Million
Rogan’s podcast will stream on Spotify, but also will also be available on Apple, Amazon and YouTube under the revised distribution strategy that Spotify...
The Case For A Better Internet
“Think about how much of your life you live online, how much of your identity resides there. . . . Whom do you want in control of...
Conversations About The Parthenon Marbles Drag On
Seeking a fair resolution on the marbles can hardly be said to open the floodgates. First of all, the marbles are as close to...
Reconsidering Rachmaninoff
We are drawing a new musical map. Looking back, the 20th no longer seems the century of Stravinsky. Prokofiev once eclipsed Shostakovich—but no longer....
Music Piracy Significantly Up Last Year
There were more than 17 billion visits to music piracy websites worldwide last year, a staggering 13 percent increase from 2022, according to research...
The Met Opera’s Curious Artistic Pivot
Why has the Met, a literal gilded temple of European art, started staging middle American malaise? - Van
How Anna Weyant Became The Art World’s “It” Artist
I know why Weyant’s friend protested the dress: It could fuel the fire hose of attention that the glamorous, photogenic, and precocious painter has...
Today’s Version Of The Personal Essay Is A Dark Form
If contemporary fiction’s capacity for objectivity and thus critique is threatened by first-personalism, these failures are consolidated, Kornbluh argues, by a broader celebration of...
The Literature That Explains The Messiness Of Higher Education
Academia is a serious place, and it takes itself seriously. But it is also, like Hollywood or Washington, profoundly ridiculous — the kind of...
The Quiet CEO Rebuilding Penguin Random House
Nihar Malaviya, 49, has been at the helm of Penguin Random House for a year — not enough time to turn a battleship, but...
