Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Fighting With Prince Harry: What It Means To Be A Ghostwriter
Rather than the rightness of going after Harry, I was questioning the heat with which I’d done so. I scolded myself: It’s not your...
The Naomi Mix-Up: Klein And Wolf Aren’t Interchangeable
"Most confusingly, we once had distinct writerly lanes (hers being women’s bodies, sexuality, and leadership; mine being corporate assaults on democracy and climate change)....
The Mounting Damage: Ukrainian Cultural Sites Are Going Down
Damage to Ukraine's cultural sites has been extensive, according to Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). Its Red List of Cultural...
Is Therapy-Speak Ruining Our Ability To Speak To One Another?
Over the last decade or so, with the vast expansion of social media networks, a new, seemingly sophisticated language sits on modern society’s tongue....
Our Digital Web Is Redefining Our Reality
Digital culture functions today as the Enlightenment cosmopolis once did: as a fantasy in which society reshapes itself along the lines of affinity. “If...
Failure To Engage: Thinking About The Future
"Our frayed relationship with the very idea of the future has worried me for some time. It’s healthy for a society not to be...
Legislatures Are Degrading Public Education Before Our Eyes
Politicians and state officials, often with the help of management consultants, are making liberal arts education scarce in some of the poorest states in...
Scientists Are Getting Close To Being Able To See What The Brain Is Thinking....
In theory, nothing about the brain’s squishy wetware prevents its internal states from being observed. “If you could measure every single neuron in the...
Hey – Theatre Kids Are Running The World!
All of these power-adult former theater kids exist in a moment when the very things that used to make drama-loving teenagers an easy punchline...
Oops: Image Metadata On Christie’s Website Inadvertently Revealed Locations Of Artwork
As was the case with the professor, photos uploaded to Christie’s oftentimes include GPS coordinates for where they were taken; those coordinates are so...
A Culture War Pop Song’s Success Signals A Shift In Pop Culture
"The stunning success testifies to potency of confrontational works that cater to an audience that believes it is underserved, but also: the increasing savvy...
Tough Love For Shakespeare Through A Racial Lens
In a sweeping yet forensic 336 pages, “The Great White Bard” argues that “Shakespeare’s texts are a reservoir of what is known as race-making” —...
Is Interest In AI Waning?
For the first time since its release last year, traffic to the ChatGPT website fell by almost 10 percent in June. Downloads of its...
Will Cable TV Survive When ESPN Becomes A Streaming Service?
While the move could fill Disney’s coffers, it would take away one of the key reasons people still stick with cable – access to...
San Francisco Is Trying To Give Away The 40-Ton Organ Sitting Under City Hall
"Despite being in very close to playable condition, the organ has sat in pieces in underground storage near San Francisco City Hall for most...
Is It Strange San Francisco Hasn’t Had A Piano Festival Until Now?
“It seemed strange to me that there wouldn’t be a piano festival in such a major arts city, where there are in places that...
Data Analysis: Where America’s Writers And Artists Come From
If we focus on independent artists — writers and artists who say they’re either in publishing or outside of any defined industry — D.C....
What That Bradley Cooper “Bernstein” Nose Controversy Is Really About
"I am not in sympathy with a view of acting that centers an actor’s identity rather than a character, or with the blanket disqualification...
Alex Ross: Misguided Notions Of Culture At Lincoln Center?
"When people make the trip to Broadway and Sixty-fifth, they surely aren’t looking for an awkward transplantation of cultures that exist in more authentic...
Ted Gioia: Here’s How I Would Fix The Recording Business
"For too long, the record industry has treated artists as adversaries. They have tricked musicians with unfair publishing deals, dubious accounting tricks, and many...
Poll: 67 Percent Of Americans Support Actors, Writers In Hollywood Strike
The poll also found that 48% have an unfavorable view of the major studios, and just 31% support the studios. The survey also found...
NYT Might Sue OpenAI Over Use Of Its Stories
If, when someone searches online, they are served a paragraph-long answer from an AI tool that refashions reporting from the Times, the need to visit...
Ruling On AI-Copyright Has Enormous Implications
The essential question: "Maintaining copyright’s focus on human authorship makes sense only if we can redefine human authorship. - Shelly Palmer
The Leonard Bernstein Biopic’s Nose Controversy
Bernstein's "family released a statement in response to the criticism, saying that they worked closely with Cooper throughout the film's development and were unbothered by...
What Defines Gen-Xers? Music? Movies? Books? What?
The aristocratic regime of my generation, who would not sell out until “selling out” was gutted of any meaning, has collapsed, yet it is...
