Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Movie Theatre Owners Are Fighting The Paramount/Warner Deal
“Further concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies, and access...
I Survived A Year Inside Stephen King’s Archives
This book is Caroline Bicks’s account of what happened when King gave her permission to spend a year in his archive, poring over the...
What 100 Years Of Data Shows Us About Who Gets Guggenheim Grants
If 100 years of data are any indication, then an outsized share of the new recipients work at the most renowned universities in the...
Millions Of People Are Pretending To Be Chatbots, And Making… Art
The site forces its human users to approximate the speed at which a machine would return a response; there's a 75-second time limit. So...
Action Star Jackie Chan To Direct… Puccini?
Chan, known for films like Rush Hour and Rumble in the Bronx, will introduce martial arts into the storytelling as a means of emotional expression. Each character...
Two Major Atlanta Museums Ponder Their Place In The City
The two museums now share a similar challenge: to reach across racial, economic, educational and even geographic lines to feel vital and necessary to...
The Decades-Old Little Box That Has Fans Raving About The Guitar Again
The quest to achieve the “Mk.gee tone” spawned a series of “How Does He Make His Guitar Sound Like That?” YouTube videos; musicians compared...
Victoria & Albert Museum Deleted Images From Catalogues That Violated Chinese Censorship Laws
The Victoria and Albert Museum has agreed to requests by the Chinese printing company to delete maps and images from at least two recent...
Jury Rules Ticketmaster and LiveNation Are Illegal Monopolies
The ruling is essentially a rebuke to the Department of Justice’s settlement with Live Nation last month — reportedly ordered directly by President Donald Trump —...
Director of Development
Playwrights Horizons, an award-winning Off-Broadway theater located in the heart of Manhattan, seeks a dynamic, strategic and collaborative Director of Development to lead a high-performing
New Contemporary Art Museum In Indianapolis Aims To Reinvent The Form
The $13 million campus, which spans five acres, includes a Vegas-style, chicken-themed wedding chapel, a radio station, a contemporary art gallery with a coffee...
Trump Fires Entire Presidio Board
A year after threatening to "dramatically" downsize the operations of San Francisco's Presidio, President Donald Trump has terminated the park's board of trustees. - San...
Finnish Violinist Says He Won’t Perform In The US Due To The Political Situation
’I would like to, with utmost sensitivity and respect, suggest to the administrations of the major American orchestras to consider using your voices... I’m quite...
EU Tells Venice Biennale To Justify Russia’s Inclusion Or Lose Funding
The letter, invoking the charge that the Biennale had violated EU sanctions against Russia, asks the exhibition to “respond to these allegations” and “inform...
How AI Will Kill Content Platforms
Not only will AI agents compete away the revenue streams of the giant digital platforms, but they will also render irrelevant the data on...
Paramount Responds To Industry Protests To Its Warner Deal
“This transaction uniquely brings together complementary strengths to create a company that can greenlight more projects, back bold ideas, support talent across multiple stages...
When You Take Up A Musical Instrument Late In Life
If this attempt to reclaim the instrument of my youth had been a mistake, I wasn’t alone in making it. Asking around, I became...
A Professor Gets Besotted With His Chatbot
An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away...
Why Has Culture Gone Flat?
Capitalism—and then late capitalism, and then late, late capitalism—has been identified as the culprit for culture’s flattening for at least a century. David Marx...
Is The Internet’s Most Complete Archiver On Its Death Bed?
According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the...
Dean, Westminster College of Media & Performing Arts
Rider University seeks a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as the Inaugural Dean of the Westminster College of Media & Performing Arts.
1000 Hollywood Heavyweights Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Deal
The letter warns that merging two of Hollywood’s major studios will result in “fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher...
Someone Will Win This Picasso For €100
A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going...
Asha Bhosle, 92, The Voice Of Bollywood
Bhosle, who recorded more than 12,000 songs, became her country’s pre-eminent exponent of playback singing – recording tracks that were then lip-synced on film...
New Focus On Dancer Wellness At School Of American Ballet
The Artistic Health and Wellness Student Center, which opened in September, is a $4.7 million expansion of the school, the training ground for New...
