Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Some Books Thrive Without Viral Marketing
Giving away books for free might seem counterproductive, but it’s one of the best ways to get readers invested. Once they finish one book,...
How Leonard Bernstein Changed The Orchestral Canon
Initially, there was a lot of excitement in the press—the first American at the helm of one of the great orchestras! But the tone...
When To Trust Your Gut
“Trust your gut”, “be yourself” or “less is more” are aphorisms that contain much truth, while also being prone to catastrophic misinterpretation. - The...
Are Books — Finally — Obsolete?
More and more I have the sense of dealing with a technology that’s finished, that’s out of keeping with the times, by which I...
BMG Music Earned $1 Billion In 2024, Spent $263 Million On Buying Catalogs
BMG generated EUR €963 million (USD $1.04bn) in annual revenues in 2024, up 6.4% YoY or up 8.1% YoY on an organic basis. - Music Business Worldwide
The Kennedy Center’s Social Impact Initiatives Aren’t Just DEI, They’re About Figuring Out The...
I’d argue that the reason might have gone beyond a commitment to equity, diversity and social justice. It might have been an investment in...
Hugh Jackman Signs Up For Affordable Theatre
Audible Theater is teaming up with Together, a new accessible-theater initiative led by megastar Hugh Jackman and superproducer Sonia Friedman, for an eight-week series of...
Trump Signs Executive Order On Concert Tickets
The order directs the Federal Trade Commission to more rigorously enforce existing law governing the use of bots that help scalpers scoop up hot...
What Would Happen To NPR And PBS If Republicans Cut Their Funding?
NPR can weather the funding cut, its document predicts, thanks in part to aggrieved listeners: Executives predict a sudden boom in donations if Congress...
The Historic Buildings Lost In The LA Fires
It's been almost two months since the Eaton Fire destroyed thousands of homes in Altadena, including several noted historic and cultural landmarks like this...
UK TV Exec Warns That AI Companies Are Extracting £125bn From Creative Industries
Alex Mahon told MPs that if the government pursues its proposed plan to give AI companies access to creative works unless the copyright holder opts out,...
Small Nebraska Museum Says It Has Discovered Five Edvard Munches
Much like Munch’s iconic painting, this suite of five “never-before-seen” works made around 1893 all depict the main figure on a bridge alongside a...
Canada’s Juno Awards Celebrates Canadian Music, Takes Digs At US
Michael Bublé handed Canadians a heartfelt dose of patriotism at the Juno Awards on Sunday, setting the tone for a night of not-so-subtle references...
Hollywood Workers Protested AI. Now Hollywood Is Using AI
It was only two years ago that actors and writers shut down Hollywood with strikes demanding protections from AI. Now the technology is controversially creeping...
Where Journalism Is Being Reinvented
What if this so-called “extinction-level event” isn’t the end of journalism but just the end of a certain kind of journalism? It’s a crisis,...
A Musical About The End Of The World
The End has more than one meaning. On the surface, the title refers to the end of civilisation. But “the end” can also mean...
Marina Abramović, Wellness Guru?
Want to learn to live like her? The Marina Abramović Institute offers €2,450 (~$2,600) five-day Cleaning the House workshops in various locations—Brazil, Thailand—taught by...
Let’s Take A Critical Read Of That AI-Written Story Sam Altman Was So Impressed...
Altman wrote that the model “got the vibe of metafiction so right.” But that’s like saying that Trump Tower gets the vibe of Versailles...
Why We’re Drawn To Apocalyptic Stories Right Now
Dystopian dramas are clearly in vogue right now, but films and TV dramas have often reflected the fears and anxieties of their times. - The...
Visitors: Isn’t The Smithsonian Already Telling The Story Of America?
“There’s no way this is anti-American if it’s showing everything we’ve been through and what our nation is founded on. How is it divisive...
Architect David Childs, 83
David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1...
GenX Creatives Have Been Screwed
If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a...
DEI Policies May Have Been Flawed. But The Backlash Is Alarming
Today, DEI programs are being shuttered across North America. Despite my own and others’ cynicism about how DEI is employed, this is an alarming...
Vancouver Art Gallery Parts Ways With Its CEO
He was at the helm as the gallery prepared to relocate to a new building downtown and then scrapped that plan last year after the project’s...
Renzo Piano Recalls Building The Museum That Scandalized Paris
As far as possible, the original building will be conserved as it was before. To do otherwise might be considered cultural sacrilege – after...
