Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A Scientist Explains The Cognitive Disconnect Of “The Dress”
A decade after the dress, we’ve learned a lot about how people could see a simple image so differently from one another. The dress...
Study: Nearly All UK Students Are Using AI In Their Studies
A new report from the UK's Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 92 percent of students have used generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, for their...
Local Movie Houses Are Thriving
The nonprofit Art House Convergence, a group of cinephiles in Highland Park, Illinois, released a report last summer that revealed attendance at local independent...
Why The Pittsburgh Symphony Should Play For The Opera And Ballet
Since these organizations are giving fewer performances than previously, this no longer seems prohibitive or unworkable. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Controversially, Anish Kapoor Owns The Blackest Black. Now He’s Letting Wayne MacGregor Choreograph In...
Kapoor doesn't allow other visual artists to use the color, which absorbs 99 percent of light. But he and MacGregor are friends, so... -...
Inside The Strong Culture of Hobbyists
Ardent hobbyists are often viewed as eccentric. I think they might be the only normal people left. As a rule, they are active and...
History Helps Us Understand The Present. But It Can Also Distract And Misdirect
We cannot truly understand our own time and place without a serious understanding of other times and places. Strangely enough, the priming effect, as...
FCC Probes Radio Giant For Possible Payola Scheme
The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether iHeartMedia is compelling artists perform at its upcoming country music festival for free or reduced pay in exchange for more...
Bezos Turns Washington Post Opinion Pages Full-Trump. Editor Resigns
Bezos wrote in his note, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free...
Transformative Year For Publishing Giant Hachette
Earlier this month, Lagardère reported that 2024 HBG sales were up 7% over 2023—the biggest jump posted by any of the groups in Lagardère’s...
Show Canceled By Museum Because It Was Labeled DEI
On February 10 museum leadership informed her that the Trump administration had labeled the exhibition as a “DEI program and event” and withdrawn funding...
NYC Public Radio Stations Get Together In Initiative To Focus On Common Issues
“The idea of collaboration among the New York area’s music stations has been informally discussed for more than a decade. - InsideRadio
Has Trump Become Our Minister Of Culture?
To the extent that Trump’s cultural designs offer a coherent vision, it shares his larger ambition to restore the country to a “golden age”...
UK Government Considering Changing Course On AI Rules To Protect Creative Industries
Faced with a concerted backlash from some of the country’s most famous celebrities, officials are looking for ways to offer them extra protections. One...
How Your Biggest Assets Turn Into Liabilities
Partners who are at first judged to be powerful or strong become controlling or overbearing after a breakup. People who are nice become pushovers....
The Rare Conductor: Anthony Pappano
Pappano, 65, is a rarity in classical music: a maestro who never went to a music school. Born in England to Italian immigrant parents, then...
Self-Publishing Is Having A Moment
"They want to do things in a time frame that suits them, rather than hope that they will find an agent, and that the...
How Have Film Academy Voters Changed What’s Being Voted On For Oscars?
If the old Academy had a terror of making odd choices, the new Academy seems to be looking for ways to be odd. Its...
How Will We Market The Arts In A Post-Social Media World?
Are we past the point where social media almost entirely drives arts marketing? While it’s unlikely social media platforms will all collapse in 2025,...
What Do We Actually Mean By “Free” Speech?
The problem is that the definition of “free speech” has strayed far from its origins in the rights of ordinary folk to speak without...
Spotify Defends Itself: We’ve Helped Make The Music Business Healthy!
"It’s a misconception that Spotify ‘doesn’t pay well’ – as we’ve proved time and time again. The $10B we paid out in 2024 and...
Remembering The CIA’s Elaborate World War II Book Smuggling Operation
What some in the east suspected, but very few knew for sure, was that the uncensored literature flooding the country wasn’t reaching Poles by...
The Science Of Optimism? How, In A Frightening World?
Optimism is, after all, by its nature delusional; ‘realism’ or outright pessimism might seem more justifiable given the troubles of the present and the...
Universal Studios Is Expanding Like Crazy
When it opens on May 22, Epic Universe will become Florida’s first major new park in a generation — and, Universal hopes, a property...
Reimagining How To Program Traditional Concert Halls
“I think of it as inviting this so-called ‘main stage’ to go outdoors and inviting the education programming to be ‘main stage’ in the...
