Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Hollywood Producers Ask Writers To Talk About Resuming Negotiations
An individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap the AMPTP has not reached out to SAG-AFTRA with a similar request. This suggests that...
In Wagner’s Bayreuth, The Reinvention Never Ends
In Bayreuth’s modern era, perpetual workshopping prevails. New productions usually play for five summers before cycling out, and the expectation is that directors will...
Editor Of People Dishes On The Rules Of Celebrity
An early editor at People came up with rules for who to put on the cover. "Young stars sell better than old. Rich is...
OMG – Surely The Ugliest Building In Paris
One can hardly deny feeling something un-Parisian, even anti-Parisian, exuded by the dark, Kubrickian slab rising out of its nineteenth-century surroundings. But nor, on...
Hollywood Ponders What AI and How Much AI
Netflix is looking to hire an AI product manager who will “define the strategic vision for” the streamer’s machine-learning platform, according to a job posting. -...
Show Your Work: Why Scientific Papers Should Tell Better Stories
I understand the need to present scientific findings in a clean, concise way, but the papers also omit all the false starts, blind alleys,...
Underneath The Hype Around AI
Too much focus on this worry risks downplaying somewhat less apocalyptic but more likely scenarios of social disruption, like dramatic upheavals in jobs. Finally,...
Major Museums Hike Admission Fees
The trend started last July when the Metropolitan Museum of Art — New York’s largest art museum — raised its adult admission price to...
Wyoming Library Board Withdraws From Library Association, Fires Librarian For Not Removing Books
The board voted 4-1 to fire longtime library director Terri Lesley after months of tension surrounding her refusal to weed out the library’s shelves...
All About Leonardo – Inside Google’s Masterclass in The Artist
The expansive project, titled “Inside a Genius Mind,” is a collaboration with 28 institutions around the world. It features 3,000 drawings, including 1,300 pages...
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Names New Director
Giovanna Sardelli will serve as the company’s artistic director, after a brief turn in the position on an interim basis following the departure of...
British Museum Director Steps Down
As well as overseeing the British Museum during the Covid pandemic, Hartwig Fischer has faced growing controversy over one of the institution’s cultural highlights...
Book-Tok Has Revolutionized Book Marketing. Now It’s Going To Publish Books, And…
Called 8th Note Press, the proposed entity seems to sit at the intersection of a major publisher and a site like Amazon or Goodreads,...
How AI Is Training On The Work Of Artists It Will Replace
There's a model with Stability AI that utilizes a large data set called LAION. It contains 5.8 billion text and image data pairs. And...
Sorry, But London Is No Longer A Classical Music Capital
London achieved its musical status in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, adding two new symphony orchestras and drawing a surprised endorsement from Arturo...
Inflamed. Impertinent. Insightful: How D.H. Lawrence Read Literature
Lawrence’s bristling, inflamed, impertinent language provides a reminder that criticism is not just the work of the brain, but of the gut and the...
The Rise Of AI-Generated “Adjacent” Culture
There’s a lot of talk of “innovation” in Silicon Valley, a term that usually means destroying things that work in favor of things that...
How Translated Books Have Found A New Generation Of Readers
There seems to be a transgressive quality to some translated fiction. Is that appealing? “That genre of ‘messed-up’ books has just exploded on TikTok.”...
Classical Music And The Streaming Wars
"I can’t put myself in the unisex Crocs of a young person exploring classical music for the first time, but Apple Classical strikes me...
Why Hollywood Is At The Precipice
Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to theatrical dollars and then as a tool to be co-opted...
How “Emo” Music Took Over The Popular Culture
From the start, the word was often deployed as a slur, a way of mocking bands for dealing in “soft” subjects, like heartbreak. To...
The World’s First Poet (From 4,200 Years Ago) Still Resonates on Today’s Issues
Besides being a poetic masterpiece in its own right, ‘The Exaltation’ bears the distinction of being the first known work of literature that was...
Climate Vandals Deface Portrait Of King Charles In Scotland’s National Gallery
Following the protest, a gallery for modern portraits was closed for the remainder of the day. The rest of the institution, however, stayed open....
NYT’s Michael Paulson Talks About What He Found About The State Of Theatre In...
Theater has some particular vulnerabilities — it’s a niche art form, and a lot of nonprofits pride themselves on developing new work, which means...
What’s So Seductive About That Urge To Censor?
The reasons can vary, but from fig leaves on sculptures to TV versions of classic films, when a work of art has a wider...
