Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Small Study: Readers Don’t Seem To Care If Writing Was Created By AI
"Throughout the study, writers expressed concerns about audiences' reactions to their use of AI assistance for their writing," the authors note. However, the survey...
Criticize Artists For Promoting After the LA Fires? I Don’t Think So!
“The Oscars are a big show that will be seen by millions of people and will bring national attention to Los Angeles. That can...
How De-Gendering Language Works
“She’s an actor” simply phases out “actress” and sends it on its way, along with Studebakers, Koogle peanut butter and Red Skelton. It creates...
How We Listened In 2024: Increase To Almost 5 Trillion Streams
The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which held the previous record....
The Death Of DEI
For a large swath of the country, the idea of DEI has become a catchall insult. DEI is part bogeyman, part always-there scapegoat for some combination...
The TikTok Ban — End Of An Internet Era
TikTok’s rapidly approaching deadline represents the end of an era in online life and a strange moment for many—even those who don’t consider themselves...
The Art Of Amazon Reviews
He embraced all the stylistic quirks, choppy sentence fragments and run-ons, either darting from point to point like a distracted squirrel or leaning heavily...
How/Why Netflix Changed How We Watch
Guilds like the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild under-estimated just how quickly Netflix would take over the industry. Suddenly, most of the work...
Sesame Street Is Homeless After 55 Years
These shows didn’t just pioneer ways to teach children their letters and numbers. They created a set of tenets rooted in love – the...
Bay Area Arts Organizations In Funding Crisis
Similarly in San Francisco, hundreds of music and theater organizations (the latter in major decline recently) are struggling to survive despite the well-established fact...
Critics Have Always Hated/Loved/Worried-About Newspapers. Let’s Understand The History
The abolition of most forms of censorship, declining paper costs, railway expansion and universal primary education triggered a newspaper boom that saw total daily...
Barnes & Noble’s Great Resurgence
The bookseller expects to open over 60 new bookstores in 2025, including five this month. - Geekwire
Criticism Is So Much More Than Being Critical
Criticism can oppose; it can also cajole, provoke, consider, inform, and suggest. More than being punitive or dismissive, public criticism can provide an opportunity...
Artists Tried Influencing The Election With Billboards. Did They Sway Anyone?
How do you evaluate something as subjective and mercurial as billboard art? - The New York Times
Drake Sues His Record Label For Promoting “Defamatory” Recording
Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group ‘chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists’ by allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song...
Criticisms Of Spotify? The Don’t Hold Up
What a lot of these criticisms seem to miss is the crucial element: that we can still choose what we listen to. No one...
Christie’s Picks A New Leader
Bonnie Brennan, a 51-year-old Michigan native, succeeds Guillaume Cerutti, a 58-year-old Frenchman who is stepping down after an eight-year run. Cerutti plans to continue as...
The Cultural Loss Of 100,000 Arnold Schoenberg Scores
The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and...
The Lost Music In The LA Fires
In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The...
The Tyranny Of Reading Lists
The urge to track our reading habits is never so strong as it is near the turn of the year, when cultural forces press...
No – Harvard Didn’t Break How America Works
The danger of blaming the Ivy League for today’s overreliance on blunt ranking-and-sorting instruments is that we may be tempted to wait for the...
How Virtual Reality Is Changing The Designing Of Buildings
VR brings clarity to architectural design. While traditional blueprints and 3D renderings can mainly convey spatial relationships, lighting conditions and material finishes, VR immerses...
The Extraordinary Efforts To Save The Getty Center From Fire
Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak...
Studying How The Brain Works Is Fine. But What About Imagination?
Imagination of a sort is central to all experience. We construct our perceived world from incomplete information, interpreted via inner representations of our environment, that...
Artwork Lost In LA Fires
Ron Rivlin said he had lost more than two dozen Warhols — he owns a gallery in West Hollywood that specializes in Warhol — along with...
