Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Growing Number Of Countries Call For Limits On Streaming Platforms
The international campaign argues that the independence and viability of the global screen industry will remain under threat unless mandatory quotas for local content...
Why Is It So Difficult To Define Consciousness?
One problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is...
Algorithms Are Flattening Our Taste
"For us consumers, they are making us more passive just by feeding us so much stuff, by constantly recommending things that we are unlikely...
Conde Nast Is Folding Pitchfork Music Magazine Into GQ And Laying Off Staff
The move will result in an undetermined number of layoffs at the website, including the loss of Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel. - Daily Beast
How Video Game Music Is Changing Composers And Audiences
The impact of video game music has helped the music industry by creating a new audience for the classical orchestra. Popular concert cover albums of game...
Is Social Media The Fuel For Populists? (It’s Complicated)
Populists in particular latch on to social media today as a way to connect directly with people, bypassing restraints on their behavior that political...
Why Do Coffee Shops Look So Much The Same? Algorithms That Drive The Generic
Of course, there have been examples of such cultural globalisation going back as far as recorded civilisation. But the 21st-century generic cafes were remarkable...
Study: Which Is The World’s Prettiest Language?
On a scale of 1 to 100, all fell between 37 and 43, and most in a bulge between 39 and 42 (see chart...
Education Standardization Has Been A Disaster For Our Students
The majority of the country has now signed up to a standardized and rigid curriculum that treats overworked teachers as untrustworthy slackers who need...
A Small Arts Organization In Australia Loses Its Funding Prompting Questions About How Impact...
The decision raises questions about the financial health and sustainability of small to medium arts organisations, the assessment models for federal funding and the...
AI Unlocks Much Creativity — Also Much Potential Danger
The perils associated with AI are not abstract doom scenarios but are very real. They are intricately entwined with issues that impact all areas...
Even While Australian Arts Groups Are Struggling, Some Festivals Are Breaking Attendance Records. Why?
It’s not all doom and gloom. Many of our larger arts festivals are achieving record turnouts and box office highs, as ArtsHub discovered while surveying recent...
Today We Model Everything To Understand It. But There Are Limits
Modelling, in general, is now routine. We model everything, from elections to economics, from the climate to the coronavirus. Like model cars, model airplanes,...
What Taylor Swift Studies Teach; Madonna Studies Were First
Humanities professors, for their part, have already begun enlisting Swift as a silent partner. The organizer for the first international academic “Swiftposium,” to be...
The Reason Small Noises May Drive You Nuts
Trigger sounds might be triggering only when they’re made by your spouse, or when you’re already upset. The reason, according to new research, is...
Singer Jill Clayton, 82
Clayton established herself as an innovator in the 1970s and ’80s, sparring with instrumentalists in avant-garde settings and using electronics to alter and extend...
Does Our Language Really Shape Our World View?
Each language seemingly compels us to talk in a certain way and to see things from a particular perspective. But is this just an...
Italy’s Undersecretary For Culture Has Been Indicted For Art Theft
The current undersecretary for culture in the Giorgia Meloni government has been indicted for the alleged theft of a painting by Rutilio Manetti, a renowned 17th-century...
“Sopranos” Creator: The Era Of Quality TV Is Over
David Chase, who wrote the HBO series about the New Jersey mafia that many credit with starting a golden age of television, said that...
Does AI Mean The End Of Intellectual Property?
My right of ownership of some piece of intellectual property bars everyone else from using that property without my consent. I.P. rights have an...
Magic Bullet Syndrome: These Kinds Of Solutions Don’t Exist
If a magic bullet was truly effective in solving this problem, there would be no need for many different proposed solutions. But today, that...
AI Comes For Comic Book Creators
There is a lot of money involved - the global comic book market is worth an estimated $15.5bn (£12.2bn) a year, while the animated...
Spanish Police Make Mass Arrests After Climate Change Activists Assault On Museum
Per police statements, the 22 individuals arrested were linked to 65 climate demonstrations, including halting traffic and flinging paint and other viscous substances at federal...
The Art Market Enters 2024 In A State Of Confusion
Many market players find themselves anxious and confused. There’s a growing fear about gallery closings and collectors dumping art. Younger dealers, who’ve never lived...
Magnificent Obsession: The Man Who Spent Decades Building The World’s Greatest Stereo In His...
Building the world’s greatest stereo would mean transforming the very space that surrounded it — and the lives of the people who dwelt there....
