Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Indians Don’t Buy Books. So Why Do They Have So Many Literary Festivals?
If most middle-class homes are devoid of book-- if you can sit in an airport departure lounge or train all day and not see...
A Worldwide Shortage Of Tenors?
When men do join singing groups, they often avoid the tenor section. The tenor voice is “a cultivated sound”, says John Potter, author of...
Report: Canadian Artists Have Multiple Jobs
One in every 10 employees in the arts, culture, and heritage had multiple jobs in 2025, compared with just 5.6% of all Canadian employees....
We’re Not Ready For The Ways AI Will Disrupt Jobs
The immediate risk to employment may not be AI itself, but the way companies, seduced by its promise, overinvest before they understand what it...
Let’s End The Justification Impulse: Art Is Water
Art has inherent value, and public and private investment in the arts should not require a strong demand for continuous justification. The social benefits...
How Artists Collaborating With Scientists Can Make The Message Sing
Research shows that emotion, storytelling and “intergenerational influence” – ideas flowing from children to adults – can outperform dry facts alone. Throughout that previous...
Justice Department Investigating Netflix’s Business Practices
The Justice Department is investigating whether Netflix has engaged in anticompetitive tactics as it probes the streaming giant’s proposed acquisition of Warner Discovery’s studios and...
Bedoya: The Imagination Of Democracy
We already carry muscle memory: voting, organizing for fairness and equity, creating the beauty of art expressed in what we share between us —...
Spotify Adds Physical Books To Its Service
The tech platform is launching Page Match, a tool that will allow readers to scan a page of a printed or e-book using their...
Longtime Musician: The Music Industry Is Broken
I’ve spent roughly 20 years in the Australian extreme metal scene – clubs, festivals, support slots with bands like Napalm Death, Psycroptic and Gorguts...
Davone Tines On Defining A Role In Classical Music
What’s too often missing for Tines in opera and classical music is an investigation into why treasured artworks remain valuable and what they may...
The Meaning Of Serious Leisure
The idea of serious leisure was coined in 1982 by sociologist Robert Stebbins, who described the unique characteristics of more structured leisure pursuits. The more we understand...
The Books Ecosystem Is Dying
In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation. Newspapers used to bundle several...
How Architects Are Returning To The Earth
Today, as architects seek to improve the sustainability of a sector that is responsible for more than a third of global carbon emissions, the...
How Typists Have Shaped Literary Masterpieces
The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and...
San Francisco’s Top Arts Official Retires As Mayor Rethinks Arts Policy
The exit, announced Monday, Feb. 2, comes just days after Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a job description for an executive director of arts and culture to...
What Trump’s Kennedy Center Fiasco Shows Us Abut MAGA’s Culture Wars
What’s even fascinating is what this whole debacle tells us about the MAGA movement as a whole, and how Trump is the perfect symbol for their...
Whitewashing History In Philadelphia
To many Philadelphians who having been coming daily ever since to leave protest messages, it felt like an attack on a hard-won monument, and...
We Think Cooperation Is The Ideal. In Fact A little Deceit Might Be Good
We evolved not to cooperate or compete, but with the capacity for both – and with the intelligence to hide competition when it suits...
Reimagining Shakespeare In Shanghai
Instead of Venice and Cyprus, Shakespeare’s setting for “Othello,” the Shanghai version takes place on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River,...
The Muppets Were On Top. Then Decades Of Bad Business Decisions Toppled Their Popularity....
The characters have survived a cruel decade defined largely by false starts, aborted projects and creative in-fighting. - The Wrap (MSN)
Enormous Challenges For Disney’s New CEO
The entertainment industry is in flux, and Disney will need someone with a deft hand if it is to survive and thrive. The business...
Something Is Not Working In Sacramento’s Arts
This struggle, we have found, applies across the board and includes live music venues, theater groups, performance arts, galleries, and does not discriminate between...
An Ambitious Project To Document Dance
The ambitious project was five years in the making and culled street dance resources from a wide-ranging array of sources spanning mediums. - Fjord Review
Crypto Investors Pay $300K To Create Gold Trump Statue
At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a...
