Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Sondheim’s Last (Incomplete) Musical Made It To The Stage
How did a show that Team Sondheim suggested was incomplete at the time of his death get to a point where it was ready...
The Great Organs Of Texas
Both Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas have long and notable histories of training organists who’ve gone on to major church,...
My Books Were Used To Train AI. So What?
Perhaps chopping prose into tokens is not how I would like to be read. But then, who am I to say what my work...
Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Only One Theatre. It’s Fallen Into Disrepair
The building represents Wright’s decades-long fascination with a concept he called the “New Theatre.” It involved eschewing the traditional setup, with a proscenium stage—in...
In Early America, Settlers Had To Make Up A Lot Of Words
Much of the landscape of North America was new to the English, so many early word inventions applied to the natural world. Often these...
State Of The Publishing Industry
In addition to rising costs, topics discussed at the daylong conference included the renewed postpandemic threat of work moving off-shore, sustainability concerns, the shift...
Portland’s Artist Repertory Theatre Pauses – Audiences Down 20-50 Percent
“So when people attend, they engage, they connect and then they give. So when the audience isn’t coming back, isn’t seeing the shows, then...
Group Files Suit To Stop Construction Of New Memphis Art Museum
That piece of land is referred to as "the promenade." According to the descendants of Memphis founders, who are referred to as the "heirs"...
Semyon Bychkov On Authenticity In Music
“I think the greatest challenge for us as interpreters today is to find authenticity of spirit in the music we interpret, and that's a...
Poof! Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Folds. But Why?
“Before the pandemic, we had 8,000 subscribers. As of today, we have 2,000 subscribers. That’s a huge difference.” - Waterloo Record
Survey: Australian Arts Participation Study Released
Many of the results show consistency with the last survey in 2019: 97% of Australians engage with the arts, 84% acknowledge positive impacts of...
A Crisis At UK Universities
While U.S. universities charge ever higher tuition in an arms race for the best facilities and research, leading to a soaring student debt crisis, U.K. universities...
A Plan To Reconstruct San Francisco’s Davies Hall
"A plan is being formulated to reconstruct Davies and some of its environment (such as the large outdoor parking lot on Franklin Street), including reducing...
An AI Finished My Story. The Story Went Viral. It Was Really Good. Does...
When the essay, called “Ghosts,” came out in The Believer in the summer of 2021, it quickly went viral. I started hearing from others who had lost...
Why Do Public Intellectuals So Often Talk Down To Their Audiences?
If the academic humanities too often address only siloed experts, then pop philosophy too often addresses an audience of imagined idiots. - Yale Review
A Long Tradition Of Mis-Thinking Intelligence
Insights from western literature and myth point to the ethical problem at the core of human intelligence. How we understand the role of humans’...
Who’s Propping Up TV Networks: Boomers
The median age of viewers at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox has ballooned in recent years. That has left executives looking for ways to...
The Mega-Dealers Coming After Museums
The megadealers love museums. They need them. They’re the best of friends. But there’s no longer any hiding it: They’re also trying to clone...
North Carolina Symphony Gets A New Music Director
While music was always important to him, Carlos Miguel Prieto majored in electrical engineering at Princeton University and got an MBA at Harvard. He...
The Copyright Office Needs A Rethink About AI
Just as a photographer walks around a city or forest looking for compelling scenes to photograph, so an AI artist explores the “latent space”...
A Growing Grassroots Backlash To Book Bans
As the new school year begins, parents of public school students in Miami have become more engaged than ever in resisting the mandate of...
What This AI-Created Image Tells Us About The Future Of Art
"If art is meant to be a portal, then the art of the future will have not one single exit, but unlimited gateways... This...
The Similarities Between Hollywood Strikes And The Auto Workers Strike
The pay gap between CEOs and average workers is unsustainable. Moreover, labor must have access to financial information (to satisfy themselves about profits and...
Death Of The Literary Feud
Literary feuds were a regular and entertaining occurrence in the British literary scene. When writers argued, the reading public looked on with the grin...
Amazon Streaming Announces Big Price Hike
In addition to free shipping and other benefits, for their monthly fee — currently at $14.99 — Prime members have been able to watch...
