Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Music Labels Are Trying To Sue The Internet Archive Out Of Existence. They May...
"They're going to regret it," Seubert predicted. "Not financially or anything, but just from a historical perspective, the Internet Archive is valuable for all...
America’s Oldest Performing Arts Organization Is Losing Its Longtime Director
Under David Snead’s leadership, the 210-year-old period instrument orchestra’s annual revenue grew by 45 percent. Its endowment has expanded from $13 million to more...
Brick Is Making A Comeback In Urban Architecture
Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of...
An AI Researcher Rails Against Big Tech’s Cultural Theft
Perhaps the most beautiful part of this digital heist is that all of this knowledge is being stolen in broad daylight. Napster was a...
Why YouTube Got Out Of Making Premium Content
Big creators on YouTube “are the new Hollywood in that sense because they are producing the content that people want to watch. And so...
How Do You Protect Cultural Sovereignty In This Digital Age?
Right now, the global landscape is shifting in ways that could have profound consequences for Canada’s creative industries. The rise of AI, the dominance...
SF Symphony Puts Emerging Black Composers Project On Hold After US Government Letter
A memo from the United States Department of Education forced the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to pause their...
Brand Agencies Are Imploding. Ad Campaigns Are Now Inundation Campaigns
Brands now flood social platforms with constant content, yet the depth and craftsmanship that once defined advertising are being drowned in an ocean of...
US Department Of Defense Bans Images Of Enola Gay Plane In “Gay” Crackdown
In total, 26,000 images have been flagged, according to the AP, though one official told the outlet that that number could reach 100,000 when...
Uh-Oh, Get Your Knives Out: ARTnews’ List Of The 100 Best Works Of Art...
The joy of an epic list like this one is that it can’t encapsulate everything: we know we’ve left some artworks off, simply because...
The Shocking Collapse Of The Iconic Technicolor
The stunning collapse of the iconic company and MPC – which was founded in the Soho section of London during 1970 and was one...
A New Chief For The Canada Council
Cheryl Hickman, artistic director of Opera on the Avalon, will start a five-year term in July as chairperson of the federal Crown corporation the Canada Council for...
What It Means To Be A Highly Sensitive Person
What I discovered after many years of studying this innate survival strategy is that high sensitivity means, above all, thinking deeply about everything. -...
Behind The Move To Get Rid Of Book Blurbs
There’s been a bunch of authors and publishers lately saying, “Hey, this is hugely time-consuming. It’s an incredibly emotional process. What would happen if...
Baltimore Theatre Refuses To Comply With NEA’s New Anti-DEI Guidelines
Baltimore Center Stage, Maryland’s state theater, says it will refuse to comply with the NEA’s new guidelines — which state that applicants “will not...
AI Imaging Discovers Remnants Of 5000-Year-Old Civilization Below Dubai
The integration of AI and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) proved especially powerful. SAR technology provides high-resolution images of structures buried beneath the earth's surface,...
Why Do Orchestra Musicians Have Tenure?
In particular, tenure exists to ensure that orchestra conductors cannot “clean house” according to their personal artistic tastes. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Kansas City’s Master Of Vinyl
In a vacant church, he built a concert hall and studio where he recorded the Delta blues and Louisiana roots music. His latest acquisition...
What’s A Bookstore To Do When An Author Becomes Problematic?
What to do about art we admire that is created by people we don’t? Most bookstores leave it in the hands of patrons. -...
The Oscars Have Contorted Themselves Into An Unwatchable Mess
Just as tentpole movies are tested and managed to death, the Oscars have bent themselves into contortions to meet what executives have determined that...
How Cities Are Developing Policies To Promote Support For Musicians
As the cost of living continues to skyrocket and spaces for musicians to perform become fewer, some say municipal music strategies are becoming increasingly important. A...
I’m A Professor. Now I’ve Become An AI-Cheat Detective
To judge by the number of papers I read last semester that were clearly AI generated, a lot of students are enthusiastic about this...
UK Is Increasing Arts Funding. But The Arguments For Where That Funding Goes Are...
Even beyond their economic potential, the cultural value of practices more traditionally associated with commercial activity has become more central to the national conversation....
The Dangerous Notion Of Free Speech
Freedom of expression undermines authority, which is why it has no place in societies wholly based on the exercise of coercive power. The logic...
Is This Rubens Real? It’s Difficult To Tell
This is not the first time that claims against the authenticity of Samson and Delilah have made headlines. In 2021, the Swiss tech start-up Art Recognition...
