Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
As More Libraries Ban Books, California Libraries Offer A Solution
To combat book censorship, some Southern California public libraries, including Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego, are joining libraries nationwide to provide access...
Live Music Is Booming. And Hip Hop Acts Are Selling Out Big Shows
This summer Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Tyler, the Creator, GloRilla, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne and Wu-Tang Clan have packed arenas, amphitheaters and stadiums in the...
What AP Dropping Book Reviews Means To Publishing
Historically, AP arts coverage has been particularly important because smaller and local papers tend to syndicate AP reviews, which are written for a wide,...
As Streaming Platforms Enshittify, Some Return To Piracy
While some people never abandoned piracy, others admit they have recently returned – this time turning to unofficial streaming platforms. One commonly used app...
The Bob Ross Painting Market Is Booming
The paintings, which both date to around 1990 or ’91, attracted five or six bidders over the course of the sale, with offers from...
An Impromptu Delayed In-Flight Jazz Performance That Went Viral
In a now-viral video, Dave Koz and the Summer Horns performed their rendition of Stevie Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothing" in an impromptu concert...
Why Scientists Studying At MIT Are Writing Poetry
In the midst of a technological revolution, while taking on a notoriously difficult courseload, why have they chosen to devote their time to the...
PBS To Cut 21 Percent From Its Budget
The 21 percent cut was approved Wednesday by PBS’s board, which also voted to reduce dues paid by local stations by $35 million. That...
Famous Coded Art At CIA, Unsolved For 35 Years, Is For Sale
When artist Jim Sanborn talks about “Kryptos,” his sculpture at the CIA headquarters, and the famously unsolved secret code engraved in its copper panels, he sounds...
Director of Finance – Resnicow and Associates working with Management Consultants for the Arts
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The AI Voice Is Taking Over
It’s not just that we’re adopting AI language — it’s about how we’re starting to sound. Even though current studies mostly focus on vocabulary,...
Writers Pull Out Of Australian Festival, Charging That Speakers’ Code Is Censorship
“The actual wording of requires me to engage in complete self-censorship, so, such as a profound act of gaslighting." - The Guardian
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Company Rebrands
The company will develop brand and franchise strategies for titles including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express....
A Peek Inside A Pianist’s Brain As He’s Playing Bach
Nicolas Namoradze’s Neurorecital saw pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier accompanied by images of the performer’s brain activity, allowing an unprecedented peek into the mind...
Mindfulness Is Spreading In US Schools. Is It Helping?
Researchers estimate that over 1 million children in the U.S. have been exposed to mindfulness in their schools, mostly at the elementary level, often taught...
The AI Revolution In Education Is Just Getting Started
The AI takeover of the classroom is just getting started. Plenty of educators are using AI in their own job, even if they may...
How To Save Scientific Research: Throw Humanities Under The Bus?
We in the hard sciences do work that is largely apolitical, and we are more oriented toward much-needed objective evaluation of data and merit....
Historians Raise Alarm About White House Review Of Smithsonian Histories
The White House’s announced review is a challenge to the Smithsonian, which has traditionally operated as an independent institution and regards itself as being...
Micro-Dramas Powered By AI: The Next Big Thing?
Television animation costs $15,000 to $60,000 per minute if done traditionally. Intelligent Animation, another start-up backed by Banyan Ventures, has developed an A.I.-assisted process...
More And More Of Our Lives Are Being Controlled By Numbers
You might think of Google as a search company, but 80 percent of its quarter-trillion-dollar annual revenue comes from ads—both hosting them and placing...
Trump Announces This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees, Says He Will Host Show
By making the announcement of honorees himself, Trump is taking on the role of producer/showman, elevating the attention to the show, which has aired...
Time To Move On From Dr. Seuss?
Seuss dominates so much of our imaginations around childhood. It may take another generation or two to reset our perspective so that Seuss isn’t...
Trump Versus Higher Ed: Will Academia Survive The Intrusion?
Scholars who feared speech might make them vulnerable to deportation, the government advised, reflect grandiosity and paranoia. Professors are smart, but they do not...
What Witch Hunts In The 15th Century Have In Common With Today’s Misinformation Wars
Early modern skeptics understood something we’re still grappling with today: Certain people are more vulnerable to believing extraordinary claims. They identified “melancholics,” people predisposed to anxiety and fantastical...
Teaching Creativity In Research
“The most striking result is the disparity between how important creativity is for science versus how much opportunity and value is given to it...
