Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Vast Scale Of Meta’s Use Of Pirated Books
Internal communications show employees saying that Meta did indeed torrent LibGen, which means that Meta could have not only accessed pirated material but also...
The Relationship Between Walking And Creativity
Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many other writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. - The...
Are There Too Many Books Being Published? Too Much Noise In The Clutter?
More than 2.6 million books were self-published in 2023 – many of which are uploaded to the dominant platform, Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing – and...
Alabama Library Board Cancels Funding, Fires Librarian Over Books On Library Shelves
The chair of the Alabama Republican Party said board members believe the Fairhope library is in violation of state policies to protect children from...
Booksellers In France Protest Media Dominance By Placing Publisher’s Books On Lower Shelves
“Books matter,” said Thibaut Willems, owner of Le Pied à Terre independent bookshop in Paris’s 18th arrondissement and one of the booksellers taking a...
Trump Limited Access By Canadians To Shared Library On US/Canada Border. Now Anger On...
Coming at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, the decision is prompting an outpouring of emotion in communities on both sides...
Ticket Prices For Popular Shows Are Now Out Of Reach For Most
Tickets for the hottest Broadway shows are now out of reach for many. And the same is true for other sought-after live events, such...
The Real State Of The Kennedy Center (And Its Current Chaos)
The second week of March, when the Kennedy Center typically announces programming for the next season, has come and gone. Across Washington, venues like...
Why Trump Took On The Kennedy Center
It's no coincidence that Trump is staging a putsch in this cultural jewel. It's no coincidence that he spends time there. It's no coincidence...
We Underestimate The Importance Of Our Ability To Understand Cause and Effect
The human power to view cause-and-effect as part of ‘objective reality’ (a philosophically fraught idea, but for now: the mind-independent world ‘out there’) is...
Considering The Problematic Revenge Memoir
Admission of desire for revenge on the page also reeks of shame: it’s the thing that every writer—certainly every memoirist—grapples with but generally never...
Academic Research Publishers Increasingly Turning To AI To Check Peer Review
In 2024, more than 4,600 academic papers were retracted or otherwise flagged for review, according to the Retraction Watch database; during a six-week span last...
What Art Basel Hong Kong Says About The Shifting Art World
“Our goal was to have 50 percent of the galleries with a presence in Asia”— meaning a physical space — “and now we are...
The Calculations Of Artists Who Haven’t Canceled Their Kennedy Center Gigs
Many of the artists who went through with their appearance agonized over whether to perform. They faced a version of the dilemma that many...
What Will Be Lost When Library Services Agency Goes Away
The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens...
Trump Appoints New Head Of Library Services (While Promising To Shut It Down)
"I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation," Keith Sonderling wrote in a press release....
US Limits Access To Heritage-Listed Library That Straddles US-Canada Border
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built in 1904, has been declared a heritage site on both sides of the border and has long...
Mariah Carey Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over “All I Want For Christmas”
Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from...
How Government Layoffs Are Affecting DC Bookstores
"There’s also been a noticeable uptick in conversations among shoppers about the general plight of federal workers and the precarity of government employment these...
The Bias Of Being Wrong
In domains where I have strong opinions, I spend a lot of time confidently arguing for those opinions and criticising views I think are...
Reconciling Stereotypes In Classic Operas
It’s become an issue in the opera world, leading to directors and designers wrestling intensely with the question of how to both preserve the...
Appeals Court Affirms AI-Created Work Can’t Be Copyrighted
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed, opens new tab with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image created by Stephen...
Here Are Some Of Today’s Most Innovative Music Companies
As music and tech become more and more intrinsically linked, a crop of companies are focused on the role of AI in the industry....
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Director Jumps To Lincoln Center
Maria Manuela Goyanes is heading to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, where she will be artistic director of LCT3, a black-box space devoted to...
100M Americans Now Pay For Streaming Music (But Growth In Subscriptions Has Slowed)
The RIAA reported that U.S. recorded revenue grew to $17.7 billion, an all-time high, while vinyl sales stayed strong, growing to $1.4 billion in...
