Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Piano Competitions Need To Address Gender Imbalance
"The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in the world of classical music, but that women are...
Photographs Are No Longer Proof Of Anything
Not only are digital images infinitely malleable, but the tools to manipulate them are as common as dirt. For anyone paying attention, this has...
Misty Copeland On Connecting Dance With The World
You know, housing crisis, gentrification, homelessness, houselessness. And so, to me, it's, it's, it's a ballet. But, you know, we have different, we have...
AI Is Upending The Foundations Of Copyright Law
Copyright is even embedded in the US Constitution as a tool “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” Now generative AI is...
Indiana Law Now Requires University Professors To Promote “Intellectual Diversity”
A new law in Indiana requires professors in public universities to foster a culture of “intellectual diversity” or face disciplinary actions, including termination for...
How Curators Chose Art For This Year’s Whitney Bienniale
This year’s event, called “Even Better Than The Real Things,” features 71 artists, whose works include short films, sculpture and abstract painting. - Gothamist
Physical Activity Is Good For Fitness. It’s Even Better For Creativity
Often, when we hear about the benefits of physical activity, researchers are really referring to the benefits of fitness – the product of regular and repeated...
Report: What Spotify Paid Musicians Last Year
According to the data, 1,250 artists generated over $1 million each in recording and publishing royalties in 2023; 11,600 generated over $100,000 and 66,000...
Pianist Maurizio Pollini, 82
During a flourishing international career spanning more than six decades, Mr. Pollini was steadily ranked among those rare musicians to whom other musicians paid...
Indigenous Theatre Blooming Across Canada
The Indigenous theatre community has grown to sold out shows being produced across the country. This spring alone, stages in Montreal, Whitehorse, Ottawa, Saskatoon,...
What We’re Starting To Understand About Aging
While we think of our genes as being set from birth, DNA does accumulate changes over the years. Sometimes errors are introduced when a...
People Hate The Idea Of Car-Free Cities Until They Live In One
Going car-free is a lot harder than it seems. Not only has it led to politicians and urban planners facing death threats and being...
Report: Americans Are Spending $61/Month On Streaming. Up 27 Percent In A Year
Americans are spending 27% more on streaming than they did last year, up from $48. That $13 increase could have something to do with Netflix and Max raising prices...
A First: Man Convicted Of Streaming Music Fraud
A Danish man has been sentenced to prison in a “historic” case after being found guilty of fraudulently profiting from royalties on hundreds of...
Cambridge University Axes Its Co-Ed Choir. What’s At Stake:
“We are devastated by this decision, which we believe is a fundamentally regressive move for the college, the choral community in Cambridge, and the...
Is UK Arts Funder’s Analysis Of Opera’s Challenges Right?
The report points out – with some perspicacity – that there is a view throughout the industry that whilst opera is an expensive art...
Australian Report Questions Payments To Academic Publishers
The Australia Institute report, released on Wednesday, questioned if more public money should be used for research and education instead of being directed to international...
The San Diego Museum Is Selling Buildings. What About The Art?
The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate, aimed at artists and audiences in the border...
COVID Was Supposed To Spark A City Doom Loop. Instead, They’ve Bounced Back
Twenty-five of America’s 26 largest downtowns have more residents today than they did on the eve of the pandemic. Meanwhile, both violent and property crime plummeted...
Cast Off Your Streaming! Free Blockbuster Now!
The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction and eventually, more than 200 other community boxes had opened from Louisiana to Canada and even Britain...
Do We Live In An Age Of Cultural Stagnation?
Cast your eyes across this burgeoning literature of cultural stagnation—now so voluminous it counts as an authentic subgenre in its own right—and you won’t...
This Musician Has Been Streamed 15 Billion Times Under Fake Artist Accounts On Spotify
Johan Röhr is behind over 2,700 songs that have been released under various fake artist names on Spotify. His music across all of these pseudonymous artist accounts...
What Does It Mean To Be An Artist In The Era Of Everyone-Has-A-Camera-At-All-Times?
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what...
End Of An Era: Gannett Newspapers Ends Relationship With AP Wire
The news ends a deep and decades-long relationship between one of the world’s largest news organizations and one of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers....
Cities Were Supposed To Be The Future. In The 21st Century They’ve Become A...
Never is it discussed that a cordoned-off, highly policed, highly regulated urban fabric of the kind that exists in every metropolitan center in the...