Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Is The South Dakota Symphony The Future Of Classical Music?
South Dakota’s may plausibly be considered the most genuinely innovative, most inspirationally forward-looking professional orchestra in the United States. It is also the happiest...
Caught Between Two Worlds: Writers, Actors Strikes Looking For A Model That Fits The...
"That structure was created at the last big strike in 1960. The business has no resemblance to that anymore. When you cut down the...
Politics Intruding – More And More, Art Is Running Afoul Of Politics
The cycle of outcry, removal and reflection seems to be repeating itself more frequently. Proponents of artistic freedom say the current political climate has...
Disney, Charter Sign Deal And ESPN Returns To Cable
The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even...
AI Art Piece Wins Big Competition. Problem – It Can’t Be Copyrighted
The artwork was created using Midjourney, a platform that features in our pick of the best AI art generators. The judges apparently didn't realise that...
Curators Test To See If AI Can Curate And Organize A Show. Here’s What...
“We naïvely thought it would be as easy as plugging in a couple prompts,” Price recalled, explaining why curators at the North Carolina university...
The Sad Real Reason Apple Bought Tiny BIS, The Classical Label
Apple Music is now eight years old, but there’s no indication that the business is profitable. They need strategies to reduce costs, and substituting cheap...
Russia Is Destroying Ukrainian Heritage Sites. How Can It Still Be In Unesco?
Russia, a Unesco member, has a delegation in Riyadh because it is on the World Heritage Committee. This is a travesty. For its deliberate...
Naomi/Naomi: The People Who’ve Gone Off The Deep End
These are the people who over roughly the last five years have gone off the deep end, as it were. “Almost everyone I talk to...
Fonts: An Art You Probably Haven’t Given Much Thought To
Every font you see — on your computer screen, a street sign, a T-shirt, or your car’s dashboard — has been crafted by a...
Persuadable: The Art Of Making Your Case
“There’s a huge difference between hearing and listening. You have to understand the person you’re negotiating with without judgment, whatever your personal values might...
‘N Sync: Dance And The Communication Between Bodies
In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show how the strength of synchronisation in a network depends on the structure...
The Mastermind Teacher Behind Finnish Conductors
Think of major Finnish conductors working around the world today — there are a disproportionate number of them — and chances are they studied...
Norwegian Man Out For A Walk Finds Ancient Trove Of Gold
The cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings. The jewels, which...
How NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts Became Mighty Desk Concerts
The Tiny Desk series became a prime venue for artists seeking an authenticity baptism. The series built its audience organically, getting bigger bookings and...
Experiments In Streaming: Music Streamers Tweak How Royalties Go To Artists
Streaming has thrown together two old business models (retail and radio) and thrown them into one pot, pretending lean-back and lean-forward consumption are the...
British Museum Scandal Enabled By Cataloging Deficiencies
That perhaps half of the British Museum’s mammoth collection of some 8 million objects was never fully catalogued has become a matter of keen...
Amazon Drops Its Periodicals Program; Small Publishers Panic
Last March, Amazon stated that it was dropping all of its print and Kindle magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Since that announcement, independent publishers have been scrambling...
How The Internet Has Changed How We Write (And Read)
Over the course of the last generation, the Internet has changed our common reading experience; now, as a teacher of creative nonfiction at the...
When American Government Encouraged Artists To Critique
Clear-eyed, truthful portrayals of American history and contemporary affairs have long been disfavored as beneficiaries of public funding — though the movement to strip...
Decline Of The British Museum?
Although the British Museum might have regarded itself as too big to fail, its false sense of exceptionalism has now jeopardized its future as an institution...
How The Harris Theatre (Now 20 Years Old) Changed Chicago Arts
During its two-decade existence, the 1,500-seat theater has become an essential downtown venue, with performances, rehearsals and other events taking place there an average...
What It Takes To Write A TV Show: That’s What The Strike Is About
“I fear a future in which they can only hire one writer. They’ll have an AI, you know, churn out a script based on...
Seattle Is In The Midst Of A Generational Change In Arts Leadership
In the last two years, ArtsFund has informally tracked at least 47 new hires or open positions at the senior leadership level among its...
Weston Sprott Talks About Racism In American Orchestras
“At the end of the day, whether you’re working in an orchestra or a hospital or a government institution, people are people. The various...
