Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
CNN, Its Revenues Falling, Paywalls Its Websites
U.S. users will have to pay $3.99 a month or a discounted rate of $29.99 a year for access. The subscription will allow unlimited...
Kris Kristofferson, Country Music Philosopher
Kris Kristofferson, who died at age 88 in his Maui home on Saturday, was a guitar-toting stage performer, a ruggedly handsome movie actor, and an outspoken...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Drugs intended to treat diabetes have had the remarkable side effect of helping people to lose weight. Everyone wants them. But it...
“Inside Out 2” Broke Theatre Box Office Records. Now It’s Breaking Streaming Records
The success of “Inside Out 2” on streaming has been unsurprising given how well it performed at the box office earlier this year, surpassing...
Cravings, Desires, Drugs And Buddhists
I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol,...
Does Guaranteed Basic Income Improve Artists’ Lives? (A Study)
Preliminary outcomes show that when artists receive guaranteed income, they generally concentrate on addressing outstanding debt, bills, and increasing their personal savings. They also have...
Why We Were Fascinated By Maggie Smith
"Her astonishing range, as borne out by a stage and screen career that traversed generations, genres and culture levels, had one common denominator: a...
End Of An Era: UK Car Makers To Stop Putting CD-Players In Cars
The tyranny of choice can make the comparatively limited days of the in-car CD player, or multi-disc changer, if you were fancy, seem highly...
What It Means To Write A Play In The Age Of AI
"In the midst of all this, what does it mean to be a writer trying to write in the way that I want to...
Francis Ford Coppola Self-Financed His $120-Million “Megalopolis.” It Just Bombed Its Opening Weekend
The major studios wouldn’t touch “Megalopolis,” the ambitious passion project from octogenarian Oscar-winner Francis Ford Coppola. Now it’s clear why. - Los Angeles Times
Endangered Indigenous Languages Are Getting A Boost On Social Media
Never before have Indigenous nations and communities had so many tools for revitalizing their languages. - The Walrus
Does AI Understand Language Or…
The downside of these machine-learned embeddings is that, unlike in a game of 20 Questions, many of the descriptions encoded in each list of...
Pompidou Revives Plan For Outpost In Jersey City
Under the Pompidou’s new plan, the museum will be sited in a new location and backed by a different financial arrangement. - ARTnews
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's ArtsJournal highlights:
LiveNation Builds "Temporary" Music Venue in Toronto for 50,000 FansLiveNation is constructing a massive "temporary" venue at Downsview...
LiveNation Is Building A “Temporary” Music Venue In Toronto To Hold 50,000 Fans
"This was a natural response to an unprecedented level of stadium-level artists on the road today. We now have another home for them to...
LA’s Hammer Museum Gets A New Director
Zoe Ryan will replace Hammer director Ann Philbin, who after transforming the museum over 25 years, is scheduled to depart in November. - Los Angeles...
What Made Maggie Smith Great
The omnipresence of Judi Dench notwithstanding, Smith’s career was substantial and varied—a testament to her flexibility as an actor and to her rigor as...
How To Create? Brian Eno Has Ideas
How should we create things? The word “should” isn’t quite right, since there’s no correct way to be creative; still, when you’re actually creating...
After Aggressive Book Bans, Soft-Bans
"I think that is where the danger lies, because we can track the books that are being banned, but we can’t track books that...
ChatGPT Is Changing Our Writing…
The overuse of certain words and phrases leads to writing losing its personal touch. It becomes harder to distinguish between individual voices and perspectives...
500 Publishers Demand Frankfurt Book Fair Cut Ties With Israel
The coalition has made four demands of the Book Fair: to condemn Israel’s regime of genocide in Gaza and affirm the human rights of...
Shutdown Of Internet Archive Leaves Higher Ed In Limbo
Legal experts are uncertain how much this latest court decision will affect colleges and universities, though they expect institutions to tread carefully. - InsideHigherEd
Report: Twenty Percent Of Workers In Nonprofits Can’t Afford Basic Essentials
More than one out of five nonprofit workers cannot afford basic living expenses where they live—and the statistics are even worse for nonprofit workers...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: More than 43 percent of all websites on the internet run WordPress (AJ is one of them). The basic WP has always...
This Week’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: We collected 132 stories this week. That's a lot to sort through, so here are some highlights. Jump down to see all...
