Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
There Are Two Kinds Of Science Writers
Artists are big on literary science writing; craftsmen are big on explanatory science writing. Artists write beautiful prose; craftsmen write clear prose. Artists write...
Streaming Is Looking More And More Like The Old Cable Bundles (And It Costs...
The “new” media landscape is starting to look a lot like the “old” media landscape. - Shelly Palmer
Research: The Intellectual Abilities Required To Lie
Research suggests that, in addition to more obvious factors – such as moral beliefs about honesty and corresponding emotions such as guilt – the tendency to...
Spotify Is All In On AI – Now AI-Created Playlists
Following the successful launch of Spotify’s AI-powered DJ feature and, more recently, added support for AI-translated podcasts, Spotify now appears to be developing another means of using...
In Test Of Watermarks For AI, Researchers Were Able To Break Them All
In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives....
Europe’s Biggest Music Festival Struggled This Summer. Are The Good Times Over?
Summer festivals now face a balancing act between creative imagination and fiscal conservatism in the wake of a Covid wipeout that dispelled the older...
A Year After Their Last Contract Expired, San Francisco Symphony Musicians Sign A New...
The new contract mandates a minimum weekly salary of $3,313 ($172,276 annually), rising by the end of the term to $3,450 ($179,400). - San...
North Carolina Radio Director Tries To Make Her Case For Not Airing Metropolitan Opera...
Breaking into tears on the phone, Deborah Proctor said: "I have a moral decision to make here. What if one child hears this? When...
TV After Peak TV
Now television’s boom cycle has gone bust and Peak TV is winding down, like prestige TV did before it. There are hints of what...
The Next Act: What Post-Strike Hollywood Might Look Like
One veteran TV producer predicted the number of scripted shows Hollywood produces could fall by one-third in the next three years. - The Wall...
Banned Books? This Ritual Exercise Does A Disservice To Literature
This attitude toward reading — in which the only well-meaning response to a text is uncritical approbation, and anything else is tantamount to censorship...
How Bradley Cooper Worked To Become Leonard Bernstein
In his conducting studies, Cooper spent the most time with Dudamel and Nézet-Séguin. He visited Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, dressed and...
Banned In North Carolina: Now They Want To Ban “Banned Books Week”
"It has come to our attention that some schools have planned events next week October 1-7, to mark the American Library Association’s “Banned Book...
Right Wing Trolls Are Attacking Taylor Swift. Good Luck With That
"There's nothing the right could do that could meaningfully affect Swift. She has an incredibly devoted fanbase, a sold-out tour that lasts until November...
The Writers’ Strike Settlement Was Good. But Not Good Enough Concerning AI
Studios are already busy developing myriad uses for machine-learning tools that are both creative and administrative. Will they halt that development, knowing that their...
Writers’ Settlement Tries To Define Streaming Subscriber
A “view” in this case means the total viewing time divided by its running time, a metric that can be applied fairly easily across...
Does Academic Pursuit Need a Goal, A “Completed-By” Date?
If we want the university to remain a viable space for knowledge production, then scholars across disciplines must be able to identify the goal...
UK’s Northern Ballet Drops Its Orchestra To Cut Costs
The Musicians’ Union (MU) said it is “deeply concerned” about “this cultural vandalism” as there will be less work for orchestral musicians. - Yorkshire...
Are Theatre Ticket Prices Just Too High?
Nearly all artistic and managing directors polled saw their company’s price increases as marginal. But for many Americans, an increase of a few dollars...
Just When Did Art Come To Be Called “Content?” Really? Content?
“It’s just a rude word for creative people. I know there are students in the audience: You don’t want to hear your stories described...
A Changing Of The Guard On Broadway?
While the six Broadway houses controlled by these four companies may be dwarfed by the Shubert Organization, the Nederlander Organization and the recently merged...
NYCity Ballet Cancels Performances After Orchestra Members Insist On Wearing Contract Shirts
The musicians’ contract with the ballet has expired. Sticking points include management’s failure to agree to a wage adjustment that would compensate for the...
Having Just Lost Its Artistic Director, Cincinnati Ballet Loses Its Executive Director
Scott Altman, president and CEO of Cincinnati Ballet, announced Thursday that he is leaving the company to take on those same positions with the Los...
Is Homework Good For Kids?
“Homework is seen to benefit time management, self-discipline, organizational skills, but there have been no studies that really have shown that homework actually...
Why AI Companies Are Hiring An Army Of Writers
A string of job postings from high-profile training data companies, such as Scale AI and Appen, are recruiting poets, novelists, playwrights, or writers with a PhD or...
