Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre Reopens After Restoration
In Wright’s days, the venue would host weekly public movie screenings for 50 cents a ticket as well as concerts and other cultural events....
Can Art Save The World? A Conference Debates
“We actually can be the place where discourse happens, where the dialogue about these issues surfaces,” she said. Museums are “safer places to do...
Survey: Most Canadians Got Their Audiobooks For Free In 2023
A recent survey about the reading habits of Canadians conducted by BookNet Canada, which collects and analyzes data about the Canadian book industry, found that a...
Yuval Sharon On Connecting Opera With Today
I’m not an advocate of doing in historically specific productions but look for this place of speculation that connects opera fundamentally with...
Google Is Paying Canadian Broadcasters $100M
Google has agreed to pay $100 million CAD a year — or about $73 million in U.S. dollars — to broadcasters and other news...
California Debates Making Google Pay For Showing News Stories
California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism...
Why Minor Annoyances Can Cost You More Than Big Things
These situations aren’t that bad, and so you don’t do anything about them, whether it be to take action or kickstart psychological processes to cope. - Psyche
Why Is Parthenon Marbles Repatriation So Compelling?
All repatriation cases matter greatly to those involved, but that of the Parthenon marbles has become famous far beyond the dispute between the key...
Latin-American Literature Doesn’t Really Exist
What I’m trying to say is that, if one thinks about it for a moment, it becomes clear that “Latin America” does not exist...
The Impoverishment Of Critics
Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it can’t not. Reading, writing, and...
AI Is Going To Change Music Forever
Just as The Bomb reshaped all of warfare, we’ve reached the point where AI is going to reshape all of music. - Persuasion
Pirates: The Story Of How Music Got To Be Free
Starting back in the 1980s, an illegal demimonde of teens began. Their initial goal was to strip the copyright protections off video games. By...
Houston’s Stages Theatre Picks A New Leader
When he moves to Houston in August to take on that role, he'll become one of the first Black men to lead a major...
Large Study: Internet Might Be Good For Our Wellbeing
We might look for clues in a new global study from Oxford University that spanned 16 years and surveyed 2.4 million people. The findings suggest that...
Naples Announces New Mega-Museum As Part Of Massive Cultural Investment
Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, himself a Neapolitan, has showered funds on the ambitious cultural heritage projects in his hometown. “Naples is a global...
Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Says It Will Try To Recontextualize Controversial Statue
The museum announced last week a major effort to fight against the image created by the exhibit. As part of an ongoing series, the museum will invite...
Donald Duck Turns 90. Here’s How He’s Changed
By 1940, Walt Disney himself referred to Donald Duck as “the Gable of our stable” – pairing Donald’s popularity with the Hollywood superstar Clark Gable, the...
Canadian Regulators: Foreign Streamers Will Have To Pay To Be In Canada
Online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute five per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system,...
Class Action Suit Against Christie’s Over Cyberhack
The complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on June 3 alleges that Christie’s was unable to protect the “personally identifiable information”,...
How Do We Define Banning Books Today?
The practice of censoring books has been around for centuries. But what does it actually mean to ban a book today? - NPR
Why Are Today’s Debut Novels Failing To Launch?
Almost everyone mentioned that debut fiction has become harder to launch. For writers, the stakes are do or die: A debut sets the bar...
Warning: AI Is Eating The World
Leaders in all industries, terrified of missing out on the next big thing, are signing checks and inking deals, perhaps not knowing what precisely...
We All Know Theatre’s Odd Traditions. Here’s What’s Behind Them
No matter if it's a local stage show or a major Broadway production — or if it's a comedy, musical, or drama — these...
Today’s Students Haven’t Learned To Read Cursive. Is This A Problem?
Who else can’t read cursive? I asked the class. The answer: about two-thirds. And who can’t write it? Even more. What did they do...
Podcasting Is Contracting. Budgets, Staff, Shrinking
The ramifications of this contracted environment have varied. Teams are making do with less by reducing the number of episodes they produce or by...
