Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Some Real Talk About AI In Music
Production music, aka commercial music, will likely be AI’s victim number one. Production music is rarely the music you’d choose to listen to all...
Can You Make A Successful Film Festival Without The Big Stars?
It's an existential crisis: How, exactly, does a splashy, global celebration of movies survive without movie stars? - Washington Post
Judgment Of Judgment: Serious Criticism In Crisis
"No clear economic reason for art criticism that is not glorified public relations to exist, so it barely does. While art is an extreme...
Is Hip Hop Really 50 Years Old? The Debate Intensifies
In a genre that has always valued volume as much as it loves liberation, the elders still compete over the story’s beats, much as...
Netflix Changed The Way TV Is Produced. Writers Want it back The Way It...
Netflix habitually pays more for its productions up front, but because it did away with the syndication model and keeps its viewership data to...
New Diagnosis: Scientists Studying Beethoven’s Hair Discover Something New
Several locks confirmed as far more likely to be from the composer's head demonstrate his death was probably the result of a hepatitis B...
Australia Is Festival-Happy – But Does Melbourne Need Another?
With a $2.7 million major investment from the City of Melbourne and a further $1.25 million from the Victorian Government, Now or Never is...
Conductor John Wilson On Reinventing The London Sinfonia
“Most of us enjoy that; that’s why we come back. We want to be in that very demanding, high-achieving environment, where most of us,...
Subscription-Happy: Apple Reports It Has 1 Billion Subscribers
Its services business continues to grow at a rapid pace, hitting $21.2 billion in the quarter, up from $19.6 billion last year. - The Hollywood...
The Art Of Conversation – And Why It’s More Difficult Today
“To speak to the converted or the entirely familiar is not to truly converse,. It is to have one’s beliefs reinforced; it is self-soothing...
Ticket Prices Have Gotten Crazy. Here’s Why.
A 2018 Government Accountability Office study shared by the White House earlier this year found service fees to hover around 27 percent of the face value...
Friends, Romans, Gives Us Your Numbers! (Why Roman Numerals Are Better Than Arabic)
I could probably come up with another DCCCLXXXIX reasons why Arabic numerals eat Neptune’s you-know-what's for breakfast, but you get the idea. - The...
The Thrill Of Moral Superiority (Just Look At Your Social Media)
Look at any social media post that has more than a dozen responses; inevitably, one of them will attack the original post on the...
Charles Berggruen Expands His Thinktank To Venice
The billionaire philanthropist, investor, and founder of The Berggruen Institute, a global think tank, sees Venice as a strategic location for his intellectual and cultural...
Even “Barbie” Hit Likely Won’t Put Warner Studios In The Black
Total advertising revenue fell 13% year over year to $2.5 billion, while revenue from studio content plunged 25% to $2.4 billion during the quarter,...
Warner Loses Almost 2M Subscribers After HBO Max Launch/Shift
Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million streaming subscribers from April 1-June 30, the quarter during which it launched new combined streamer Max. - Variety
Why Punishment For Art Fraudsters Is So Erratic
The logic behind sentences can appear bewildering if not considered in the context of the myriad factors underpinning a judge’s decision. - The Art...
A Growing Divide Between Influencers And Critics
The line between film critics and influencers has gotten blurrier. From a studio’s perspective, it’s using both groups to promote a film. Critics provide...
Can The Edinburgh Fringe Be Saved?
Whether it is the spiralling cost of attending and the inequality that engenders, or the persistent abuse of low-paid labour, or the event’s environmental...
Study: Babies Show Inherent Preference For Art Adults Rate Pleasing
The results reveal that the infants tended to gaze longer at artworks which adult participants rated higher for pleasantness. Van Gogh’s Green Corn Stalks...
The Final Bidders To Buy Simon & Schuster
he remaining bidders included KKR, one of the world’s largest private-equity firms, and News Corp, the owner of HarperCollins, a competing publishing house. -...
John Adams Reviews Harvey Sachs’ Case For Making Schoenberg Matter
Too many books about Schoenberg are overly technical for the general reader, or else they assume a kind of hagiographic defensive crouch. Sachs can...
Metropolitan Museum Makes Deal With Augmented Reality Gaming Company in Roblox
The app can be used with Roblox, the popular gaming platform, where a new virtual version of the Met, including spaces like its Fifth...
Meta Blocks Sharing Of News Stories On Facebook In Canada
"In order to provide clarity to the millions of Canadians and businesses who use our platforms, we are announcing today that we have begun...
Portland Pulls Out Of Regional Arts Funding Agency
“The city has gotten a major bargain from the work that Regional Arts and Culture Council has done on its behalf. The team at...
