Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
HBO Returns, Conceding Its Brand Change Was A Colossal Blunder
The gambit to chase Netflix with a service called Max didn’t work. Warner Bros. Discovery’s leaders eventually recognized the tremendous value in the HBO...
YouTube Is Being Overwhelmed By AI Slop. So Some New Creator Rules…
Alphabet has to acknowledge not only the downsides of AI, but its potential to overwhelm platforms that rely on user-generated content—in other words, rein...
Roadshow: America’s Midwest Art Museums
Arriving at art museums after four or five hours on these roads, day after day, is reliably uplifting. Everything is reversed. You’re in a...
Actors Unions Approve New Video Game Contract, Ending Strike
As with the dual strikes in 2023, artificial intelligence was a big sticking point in negotiations. As such, the new contract establishes performer safety guardrails and...
Training A New Generation Of Dancers For A Different Kind Of Career
"Today’s young adults have also been through the Covid shutdown, and they’re starting their careers at a time of huge financial uncertainty." - ArtsATL
The Bayeux Tapestry To Return To UK – First Time In 1000 Years
Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically. The Bayeux tapestry would have...
Bay Area Theatres Are Folding. The Theatre Landscape Is Collapsing
"We, in the nonprofit theater world, rely on a model that is really not working for anybody. It wasn’t working before the pandemic. The...
Trump-Announced TikTok Sale Raises Questions
M2 appears to be an end-run around this issue, allowing ByteDance to pour in those ingredients but then step away to let Americans run...
Artistic Director – Everyman Theatre
Currently celebrating its 35th Season, Everyman Theatre seeks a positive, collaborative, and dynamic leader to serve as its second-ever Artistic Director...
Trump Administration Threatens Harvard Accreditation
The notification doesn’t remove Harvard’s accreditation—which would leave the school virtually unable to operate. Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged Harvard’s accreditor to work with the school...
Withdrawals Of Showings At Film Festivals Raise Questions
Festivals are also answerable to funders and to different stakeholders’ interests. Cancellations of planned films raise questions about festivals’ roles and accountability to community groups who...
The Next Marketing: Influencing Without The Influencers
The brand’s voice is embedded in the content, as are its products, but there’s no overt pitch, no awkward energy of a sponsored partnership....
Music Industry Projections For The Next Seven Years
After something of a boom year in 2023, revenue growth slowed to 4.3% in 2024. In fact, 2024 continued an oscillating growth pattern we...
How Journalism Is Using AI
I’ll upload sections of my book, along with interview transcripts, and ask whether everything I’ve written squares with what my sources have said. I’ll...
Peter Sellars And A Life Wrapped In Art
Among his collaborators, Sellars is cherished for this openness with his feelings. He wraps anyone and everyone in a bear hug. He releases sudden...
Trends In Painting In A Hyper-Imaged Culture
Recent contemporary painting trends suggest a widespread desire to slow down, distort, or even rupture the act of seeing. - Artnet
Universal Music VP On Copyright, Creativity, And AI
The UMG executive emphasized that “tech collaboration with the creative community, respecting the value of artists’ work and harnessing their innovation has produced enormous...
Third Year Of A Slumping Art Market
Amid the geopolitical mayhem of a second Donald Trump presidency, 2025 looks likely to be the third year in a row that sales in...
Missouri Governor Vetos Arts Funding
“We're all kind of left reeling,” Craig said. “It does feel, for many of us involved in nonprofit fields, that we are being hit...
The Art Of Protesting Amnesty For The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
The Wall of Shame is a 50ft-long, 10ft-tall outdoor mural featuring the pardoned Trump supporters, colour-coded to distinguish their actions: violent rioters appear in...
Opera’s Colorful History Of Translation
Wagner expected his works to be translated into French when they were performed in France. Yet for purists, the idea of singing a famous Italian aria...
Hollywood’s Production System, Overturned By AI
What seems rather dangerous about Hollywood’s interest in generative AI isn’t the “death” of the larger studio system, but rather this technology’s potential to...
How Did Our Notion Of School Get Locked Into A Rigid Model?
Time in school is very structured around when you can do what. It instills the idea that kids have to memorize what the teacher...
3000-Year-Old Babylon Hymn Deciphered By AI
The 250-line hymn was created sometime around 1000 B.C.E. and faithfully copied onto clay tablets by scribes for hundreds of years. - Artnet
Barcelona’s Museum Of Forbidden Art Closes After Protests
The museum featured more than 200 works that had been censored for political, social or religious reasons. Some pieces depicted controversial figures, including dictator Francisco...
