Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why TV Writers Are Unhappy
Studios are cutting writing budgets to the bone by hiring fewer people for shorter time periods, often without paying for lower-level writers to be...
This Year’s Tony Nominations: Boldness And Backsliding
The spirit of boldness that marked Broadway’s reopening in the wake of a once-in-a-century pandemic and widespread societal reckonings on equity, diversity and inclusion...
Three Years After His Death, Philosopher Roger Scruton Is More Influential Than Ever
Conferences on Scruton’s work are springing up like mushrooms across the continent. Budapest boasts a chain of Scruton cafes that hold regular discussions of his...
Book Banning: Et Tu, Canada?
A push that began last summer to remove a few children's sexual education books from the southern Manitoba library system has since bubbled up into...
Regina Symphony Ponders Its Place Post-COVID As Audiences Are Slow To Rebound
"But in many places, the idea of the regularity and the consistency of attendance and participation in orchestral activities has been broken." - CBC
La Scala To The World: Let The Streaming Begin
The platform is part of a wider effort to modernize La Scala’s infrastructure, including an extensive educational outreach program using the technology and plans...
Grantmaking In The Arts Must Change
Artists know best what they need to advance their art and to thrive — hire artists as grantmakers and advisors. Support organizations that are...
The Case For Being Able To See Inside AI Algorithms
If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work. For example, in health care, you need to...
Watch As A Chatbot Learns To Write Like Shakespeare
To show you what this process looks like, we trained six tiny language models starting from scratch. We’ve picked one trained on the complete...
The Doll Family That Mysteriously Took Up Residence In A Mailbox
“Some people initially thought that I had planted the dolls myself, but that is definitely not the case. All I did was provide a...
Culture Wars Come To The High School Musical
“You see politicians and officials enacting rules and laws which are incredibly onerous and designed to enforce a very narrow view of what students...
School Field Trip To See “James and the Giant Peach” Canceled After Parents Complain
The cancellation came after a parent told school board members that she was worried about her 5-year-old daughter’s upcoming field trip to see the...
Fetishizing Neutrality: The Mythologies Of Objectivity
Is neutrality even attainable? “No journalistic process is objective,” Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter, observed in a widely discussed New York Times opinion piece from 2020. “And no...
Traffic Flow — A Story Of Chasing Online Audience
Most people who write for the internet have had the experience of publishing something that escapes the bounds of one’s usual audience and goes...
NYC’s New Museum Of Natural History Extension Is A Winner
New Yorkers live to grouse about new buildings. This one seems destined to be an instant heartthrob and colossal attraction. - The New York...
Ground Zero For The Art Of Conspiracy Theories: Denver Airport
Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting...
Scott Timberg’s Boom Times
That a collection is as well versed in Rechy as it is in Dudamel tells you a lot about the writer, as well as...
Hollywood Writers Fear Being Replaced By AI
“We have a bunch of A.I.s that are creating a bunch of entertainment that people are kind of OK with.” In their attempts to...
Flagship HMV Music To Reopen Its Shuttered Flagship Store In London
It said the return to 363 Oxford Street was due to a "dramatic turnaround", with HMV returning to profit in 2022. The store will...
The Indigo Books Cyberattack Portends Many Bad Things
Indigo’s data breach is a nightmare for those affected, many of whom now live in fear their information will be made public at some...
Clubhouse, Embraced By The Art World, Lays Off Staff, Tries To “Reset”
Clubhouse, the live audio app that once drew big buzz and interest in a multi-billion-dollar takeover, is “resetting” and letting go of 50% of its staff...
Independent Film: An Alternative History Of Movie-Making
Instead of embodying the mainstream, twentieth-century independent filmmaking formed a crucial alternative to it—a virtual counter-history of cinema. A list of the best of...
New Trend: Fake Books As Decoration
While some people are going all in and covering entire walls in fake books, others are aghast at the thought that someone would think...
Do Funders Not Trust Us?
Enter trust-based philanthropy—a type of support defined by mutuality, transparency, and unrestricted funding. This is a model that has gained popularity across the philanthropic...
Three Ways To Think About Creativity And Artificial Intelligence
There are three responses we could have in response to my question, “What does it mean to be creative in the midst of ubiquitous...
