Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A Short History Of Amateur Internet Culture
For most, participation in the online attention economy feels like a tax, or maybe a trickle of revenue, rather than free fun or a...
Cancel Culture Is Ascendant. But What Is It?
Some say canceling is an act of redress, a powerful display of solidarity. Others blame it on a mob. Still others have considered it...
Los Angeles’ Movie Industry Is In Freefall, Unraveling In Front Of Us
The entertainment industry is in a downward spiral that began when the dual strikes by actors and writers ended in 2023. Work is evaporating, businesses are...
What Will New York City’s Cultural Life Look Like 25 Years From Now?
As the art world grows ever more corporate and culture continues its slide into an anti-intellectual dumpster fire, we will start to see a cultural...
How Many Is Too Many Books?
I’ve worked in multiple bookstores (and have moved too many books, too many times) so I understand that 100,000 books is, indeed, a lot...
Retelling Stories At The Victoria And Albert Museum
We’re now back almost to where we were in terms of the split between foreign and U.K., too — basically 50-50. We lost a...
Exit Interview: Misty Copeland
There are so many other things that I could be doing to accomplish my longtime goal of bringing more equity and awareness of ballet’s...
Audiences For Public Readings Are Soaring
Across the country, the number of untethered readings disconnected from a specific publisher or magazine has skyrocketed over the past couple of years. These...
Public Statue Of Tina Turner Is The Latest To Be Scorned By Internet
“The way Tina’s fans are reacting really tells you something,” the mayor said. “All this passion, whether they love the sculpture or have some...
A Frank Lloyd Wright Movie?
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has recently struck a licensing deal with Hollywood production company Galisteo Media to bring Wright’s story to the big screen as a movie....
Elon Musk Says He’s Building A Wikipedia Competitor
In June, Musk raised eyebrows by promising to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors,” using his Grok...
Can’t Stop The Music: Russian Musicians Defy Putin
Musicians have become influential activists and symbols of political resistance, just as they were in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin...
SAG-AFTRA Union Responds To Use Of AI “Actor”
“The real issue at play is how our work is exhibited and what kinds of permissions and compensations we get for its use.” -...
UK Book Shops Will Now Sell E-Books To Compete With Amazon
The online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able to sell ebooks as an alternative...
Stephen King Is The Most-Banned Author In The US
PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year....
Why It’s So Expensive To Run A Show On Broadway
Ultimately what causes shows to take longer to recoup their initial capitalization is the high costs associated with operating a show. It’s well documented...
This Women Artist Was More Famous Than Rembrandt In Their Day. Why Did We...
Today, The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings of all time, its creator lionized as one of the greatest artists to ever live. Meanwhile, the Koerten “thread...
This Year’s Most-Anticipated Book Started As FanFic And Has A Movie Deal
SenLinYu, 34, started off writing Harry Potter fanfiction that blew up online during the pandemic, racking up more than 20m downloads. Sen’s Draco and Hermione (“Dramione”)...
Did Italy’s Agnelli Family Replace Art With Fakes During An Inheritance Dispute?
Italian prosecutors are investigating claims that members of the Agnelli family arranged for works by Monet and de Chirico to be replaced with forgeries...
Two Years Ago The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Declared Bankruptcy. Now It’s Back
On the road to their return, the musicians took on side jobs, staged free community concerts and fought to bring the symphony back through legal...
Can TikTok Build Interest In Classical Music?
The program will support and elevate a select cohort of 10 U.K.-based creators passionate about classical music who are already making content about the...
Public Media’s Moment To Shine (Or Not)
Public media stations reach 99% of the country’s population with free, noncommercial, local news, music and information. Yet their greatest strength — broadcast dominance built over...
Public Broadcasting Lost Federal Funding. But Public Broadcasting Continues
Although the massive wave of federal funding cuts may sometimes seem insurmountable for private donors to offset, cuts to public broadcasting are not so...
Living With People Whose Ideas You Don’t Like
We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some time, and doing...
Father Of The Internet: We Created The Internet And Gave It Away For Free....
Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. Trading...
