Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Behold The League Of Live Stream Theatre
The League of Live Stream Theater, the nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing live performances to audiences around the world via livestream, can play a...
Syracuse Opera Suspends Operations
Syracuse Opera board chair Camille Tisdel said ticket sales are down 40-60% from where they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The opera company...
Ticket-Sellers Beware: We’re Coming After Your Junk Fees!
“We know that junk fees resonate with American consumers. They don’t like being taken for suckers,” said Lael Brainard, the director of the White...
Redefining And Redeploying Expertise
The phenomenon is sped by automation, which usurps routine tasks, leaving employees to handle the nonroutine and unanticipated—and the continued advance of which throws...
Stuck In Algorithmic Hell (We Really Know What You Want To See/Hear)
"We used your personal account in a recent brainstorming meeting as an example of why Netflix should start charging for screen time instead of...
How Digital Celebrity Works
The open infrastructure of the Internet allowed ordinary people to reach a level of renown once reserved for politicians or Hollywood starlets. These newly...
Why Activism Leads To So Much Bad Art
"During the past decade, politics has intruded on daily American life more than at any time since the 1960s; in the same period, technology...
The Making Of Puzzle Master Will Shortz
With a 15-year stint as the editor of Games magazine, his founding of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a 30-year tenure at The Times...
Precipitous Drop In Students Studying Foreign Languages
Even though we live in an increasingly globalized world, the number of college students taking languages is rapidly falling. - The Conversation
Mass Resignations Of Documenta Selection Committee: “No Room For Ideas”
“In the current circumstances we do not believe that there is a space in Germany for an open exchange of ideas and the development...
Matias Tarnopolsky: Why Cultural Diplomacy Is Important
"It may seem naïve to argue that a symphony orchestra can help solve the world’s problems. But a lifetime in music has convinced me...
Can This Enormous Music Archive Be Saved?
The Arc preserves copies of every recording in all known formats. It has electronically catalogued more than 400,000 sound recordings and digitised 200,000 with the...
Newest-Gen Versions Of AI Image Creators Upend Everything
With the advent of AI image synthesis, it's looking increasingly like the future of media creation for many will come through the aid of...
Seattle Indie Radio Phenom KEXP Buys San Francisco Station
KEXP has purchased San Francisco’s KREV 92.7 radio station, and pending FCC approval, “will be taking full ownership and operation” of the station “within...
Why Spoilers Don’t Really Spoil Your Favorite Shows Or Books
In a series of psychological experiments published in 2011, researchers in California found that knowing the end of a story did not diminish readers’ enjoyment. In...
Comparing The 233 Surviving Copies Of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Fascinating Differences)
None of the folios were identical; sometimes a letter or word would be different, evidence of the typesetter at William Jaggard’s London printshop tinkering...
Obsolete? Schools Are Getting Rid Of Their Librarians (But Here’s What’s Being Lost)
Some K-12 decision makers perceive school librarians as little more than quaint remnants of a bygone era. And if the number of our nation's...
African Art Is Prospering, Powered By Social Media
Today, for the booming young population of Africa and its diaspora, the relationship is more direct. There’s a reciprocity of inspiration, fueled by a multitude of...
Why Is New Zealand’s Creative Economy Growing Faster Than National GDP?
"It’s heartening to see the strong GDP growth in the arts and creative sector over the past year despite the ongoing challenges from the...
Learning From Dancing Robots
Choreography is a way to start conversations about how bodies make meaning, whose bodies matter, how bodies interface with technologies. Dance is a way...
Want To Understand The Media Revolution? Take a Look At This 2018 Story About...
With all its decades of episodes, well-known characters, and worldwide brand recognition, Sesame Street has more than 5 billion views on YouTube. That’s impressive, but ChuChu...
What The Vegas Sphere Says About Our Relationship With Art
The Sphere is a distillation of an evolving relationship among art, artist, and technology—somewhere between a warm embrace of and a final surrender to...
But Tattooing A Scannable Barcode Of Your Favorite Song On Spotify Seemed Like Such...
A growing cadre of music fans have joined the Spotify tattoo craze as a conversation starter or a way to commemorate sentimental favorites like...
He Thought He Had Stumbled Into Owning A Chuck Close Painting. Then He Tried...
The auctioneer started the bidding at $40,000. Mr. Herman perked up. The camera crew leaned in. Then: crickets. By 1:32, with no live bids,...
I’m A Teacher. How I Went From Fighting AI To Using It To Help...
Redesigning assignments to force students to go back and critique, fact-check, and evaluate AI tools may also give them pause the next time they...
