Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
David Remnick Remembers Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-two, may have been the most important book editor of his time. Caro was just...
Our Metaphors For Language Shape How We Think
For example, if we talk about “wasting” or “saving” time, we treat time as if it were a commodity. Or, if we say that...
What Failure Can And Cannot Do For You
In a culture that demands overcoming against all odds, even failure has been commodified by the American self-help industrial complex: rebranded not as a...
What Libraries Are Becoming
Libraries were once places to access books. They are now places to access everything? The last place to access anything? As the social safety...
Asian Movie Theatre Box Office Is Down. So They’re Being Inventive
With movie ticket sales still lagging behind pre-pandemic highs, multiplex operators across Asia have begun deploying unconventional strategies to generate excitement and attract people back to...
California Mandated Ambitious Arts Education For Students. Why Isn’t It Working?
“It can't be an after-school program only because that builds inequitable access. Art needs to be consistent in terms of hands-on experience, as well...
How Hadid Architects Are Using AI To Design Better Buildings
Mr. Blum said ZHAI had a computer tool that, in 27 hours, could come up with 100,000 designs for a building’s interior; an architect...
17 Music Publishers Sue Twitter For $250 Million
According to the publishers, Musk's company allows users to share music on the platform without permission from the copyright holders. - Mashable
Legendary Editor Robert Gottlieb, 92
For three decades at the publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Knopf, he turned hundreds of manuscripts into well-received books, many of which sold...
ABT Chief Exec Suddenly Quits After 17 Months
Janet Rollé’s hiring was announced with much fanfare: She had made a name in the entertainment industry, having served as the general manager of Parkwood Entertainment,...
Pandering: What Good Does Elizabeth Gilbert Delaying Her Book Do?
Some writers invite haters and court controversy; Gilbert writes books that want to be loved. Being accused of complicity with a regime accused of...
The New Piracy: Movies And TV Chopped Into Tiny Pieces On TikTok
Those millions of people are contributing to the billions of views on movies and films chopped up to fit the app's restrictive post limits,...
Linguists Identify A New English Dialect Emerging In South Florida
This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish. - The Conversation
New Renzo Piano-Designed Istanbul Modern Opens
The official opening of the museum this month will come just weeks after the re-election of a president under whose leadership the media has been...
Paul McCartney Says John Lennon Song Finished With Assistance Of AI
The turning point came with Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, where dialogue editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise the Beatles' voices...
Surveys Say People Feel Morality Is In Decline. But Then They’ve Always Said So…
A big collection of archival data, going back all the way to 1949, suggests people believe morality is declining. People are asked questions like,...
Rijksmuseum’s Blockbuster Vermeer Show Wrestles With Blockbusters
Tickets to the exhibition sold out in a matter of days, reselling for extortionate amounts on the black market. Exhibitions of this magnetism are...
Can Art Make Us Good?
‘Can art make me become a good person?’ is a more interesting question, because neither ‘Yes’ nor ‘No’ is an adequate answer; the only...
30 Years Ago: How Prince Changed The Way Musicians Negotiate Contracts For Their Music
“He kind of very famously said that ‘if you don’t own your masters, then your masters own you." - Marketplace
The Death Of El Sistema?
If the doubt over the actual inception of el Sistema, as it was conceptually communicated to the public, isn’t telling enough, the most damning...
Rise Of The Counterfeit People (Beware)
"Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit people who can pass for...
Regulator Says Canadian Content Laws For Streamers Shouldn’t Apply to Social Media Users
The directive instructs the CRTC to ensure the regulations do not apply to social media users whose business model is their own content, even...
Four Classical Music Stations That Have Found Ways To Boost Engagement
Through LinkedIn, and awards, and video game music... - Greater Public
How The Brain Processes Listening To Voices In A Crowded Room
"The findings suggest that the brain likely uses different mechanisms for encoding and representing these two different volumes of voices when there is a...
Brussels’ Africa Museum Rethinks Africa
After facing years of heavy criticism nationally and internationally, the museum worked with a group of experts from the African diaspora in Belgium to...
