Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Poetry?
The best thing to do is just start with any poem, because what matters about poetry is not what other people think of it...
Kansas City Symphony’s First Black Tenure-Track Musician Talks About What Happened
“To deny tenure to such a gifted musician on the basis of some unsubstantial and, frankly, unconvincing reasons seems highly suspect. Any shortcomings in...
The Transformative Louis Langrée
At 62, Langrée has never been one of the world’s most famous or sought-after conductors. His career has been a steady climb of prestige...
Major Met Museum Patron’s Home Raided
Investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office have carted away 71 looted artifacts from Shelby White’s home in the past two years, though they have not...
Studios Proposed: Scan You Once, Use AI Version Of You Forever, Free
“They proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their...
How Barcelona Became A Design Capital
In the spring of 1992, Barcelona was in the throws of Olympian joy and design fever. After 36 years of dictatorship, Barcelona’s nomination as...
A Movie About Theatre Camp That Helps Explain Theatre
Earnest and ridiculous in equal measure, Theater Camp makes clear that places like AdirondACTS are microcosms of magical weirdness. The film isn’t just a starry-eyed ode...
Why The Death Of Newspaper Dance Reviews Has Big Impacts On The Field Of...
Critical dialogue in dance today takes many forms, none in short supply. But reviews of live dance performances, in print or online, in publications with at...
Thousands Of Writers Sign Letter Urging AI Companies Not To Use Their Work W/O...
According to a forthcoming report from The Authors Guild, the median income for a full-time writer last year was $23,000. And writers' incomes declined by 42% between...
Pittsburgh Opera Company Takes Stock, Decides To Reinvent
Pittsburgh Festival Opera, is a “summer festival company” that typically puts on a few small-scale productions during the summer months and provides a training...
David Brooks: Why AI Won’t Replace Us
Over the past few months, I’ve become an A.I. limitationist. That is, I believe that while A.I. will be an amazing tool for, say, tutoring children...
Science Fiction Is Chockablock Full Of Aliens. But “Alien” Is So Hard To Comprehend,...
“A truly alien alien is so incomprehensible that stories about them just become stories about human beings,” Jaime Green writes in her new book, The Possibility of...
Amapiano – Can The South African Dance Music Craze Go Global?
In Zulu, amapiano means “the pianos,” or “piano people,” and the genre’s name refers to its origin as a jazzy variant of house music—at parties around...
Why Are Published Editions Of Under-represented Composers So Riddled With Errors?
Some inaccuracies were very obvious, while others needed more detailed detective work, and only became apparent as we got to know the music more...
Inside Philadelphia’s Thriving Mural Culture
“There was this idea that, OK, industry and maybe some people left this city, so now it’s our playground." (the city’s population declined from...
AI Is Coming For Us. So What Could Go Wrong?
With all this talk of killer robots, humanity may be overlooking the more immediate dangers posed by AI. - The Atlantic
AI Company Says It Created 100 Million New Songs
An artificial intelligence company in Delaware boasted, in a press release, that it had created 100 million new songs. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire...
San Diego Symphony Delays Reopening Of Its Concert Hall
The reasons for the delay are being attributed to unexpected construction and redesign challenges that have emerged as the nearly 100-year-old hall undergoes a...
Major Consolidation: Frieze Buys Armory Show And Expo Chicago Fairs
Both the Armory Show, which is led by executive director Nicole Berry, and Expo Chicago, led by founder and president Tony Karman, will operate...
Pianist Andre Watts, 77
Watts made his national concert debut when he was 16 years old with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Shortly after, he was...
Record Music Streams In First Half Of This Year
The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate's 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was...
Here’s How Streaming Broke The Way Artists/Actors Get Paid
“So many of my friends who have nearly a million followers, who are doing billion-dollar franchises, don’t know how to make rent,” Glenn told...
Google’s New AI Search Tool Could Break The Internet In Significant Ways
Sort of like ChatGPT, it pulls information from various websites, rewords it, and puts that text on top of your search results—pushing down any...
Misbehavior: Is Classical Music Teaching Broken?
While classical music has long been mired in cases of sexual abuse, the psychological and emotional abuse experienced by many young musicians is harder to pin...
SAG-AFTRA Actors Vote To Strike
With the Writers Guild strike now in its 73rd day, this will be the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the...
