Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Tracking Study: Women Still Remain Under-represented In The Music Industry
The Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report reveals that while the amount of women represented in Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 chart jumped 28.7% last...
Colleen Hoover Sold Tons Of Books. Then She Published A Coloring Book And It...
It Ends With Us is a book about domestic violence. Hoover detractors who say she romanticizes abuse had a new weapon in their arsenal: How...
How Wikipedia Distorts Indigenous History
Generally, U.S. history pages follow one strict interpretation of history written in the 1960s and ’70s, and most editors treat these matters as settled....
The People Who Have Been Marking Dickens’ Birthday Every Year Since 1905
The Toronto branch of the Dickens Fellowship, a group of dedicated Charles Dickens fans who have celebrated the birthday of the Immortal Boz annually...
Why We’re Fascinated By Unbuilt Buildings
Sometimes buildings are designed as a way to create prototypes and visionary schemes for the future – architects allowing their creativity to be unbounded...
Are The Language Wars Alienating Rather Than Including?
The flap over the French underscores the ongoing project to revise terminology in ways that are meant to be more inclusive — but which...
ChatGPT Reaches 100 Million Users – Fastest-Growing Digital Service In History
The report, citing data from analytics firm Similarweb, said an average of about 13 million unique visitors had used ChatGPT per day in January,...
Study: Public Radio’s Important Role In Local News
“Strengthening local public radio stations is a democratic imperative. With additional funding, public radio has the capacity to fill much of the gap in...
Tate Modern Neighbors Win Suit Over Museum’s Viewing Platform
The five residents had applied for an injunction requiring the gallery to prevent members of the public observing their flats by "cordoning off" parts...
How People Romanticize Their Childhoods
Considering the aspirations of so many people to return to it, you’d think the answer was a place, a spot in the world, with...
Why Pop Stars Are Selling Their Back Catalogs
For artists who are thinking about retirement, it’s a way to enjoy the fruits of their labour and create a pension for themselves. It...
How The Humble Tote Bag Became A Status Symbol
In the decades that followed, totes have grown from a journeyman staple to a ubiquitous literary trophy on the streets of many major cities...
San Francisco Symphony Contract Talks Escalate
“We, the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, have been playing without a contract for months and are the only major American orchestra who...
LA’s Public Radio Station KPPC Rebrands After A Website It Acquired
The goal is to connect KPCC to the LAist’s presence online and in social media and in-person events. The rebrand for KPCC will be...
Australia’s New Cultural Policy Stokes Optimism
With $286 million in funding over five years, ‘there is a lot to like in the new cultural policy, restoring cuts made under Brandis,...
We Think Of Skeptics As Unhappy People. The Ancients Believed Skepticism Was The Way...
Sceptics were pretty happy about it. They thought of their scepticism as a way of life – as a way of reaching ataraxia or tranquillity. In...
Movie Music In The Concert Hall Is A Hit
Even the most curmudgeonly of musicians and symphony-goers are coming to accept the value of these sorts of shows. And, most importantly, the music is...
Dance As Political Tool
Although few of us recognize dance performance as overtly political, using dance for political messaging is nothing new. - Washington Post
Oh No: Joe Rogan Listeners Head To The East River In Search Of Mammoth...
In a recent interview on that show, which has an estimated audience of 11 million listeners per episode on Spotify, a guest from Alaska presented...
Using Subtitles While Watching TV? You’re Not Alone
If you’re switching subtitles on because you simply can’t make out what the actors are saying, it’s (probably) not your ears that are to...
Singer Reflects On 12-Year Career Break And Body Shaming
In an interview, Limmie Pulliam reflected on his 12-year break from singing and the challenges facing larger artists, who once were common in the...
A Fascinating Window Into The Public Theater
The Public may be the only remaining major American theatre that operates according to proudly articulated left-wing principles. On a wall in the offices...
The NYC Housing You Have To Audition For
Would-be residents of a particular wing on the 12th floor of the Webster Apartments, a building on West 34th Street, must first give ‘em...
Arthur Miller, Reconsidered
To anyone who grew up with the image of Miller as a lionized elder statesman of the American theatre, John Lahr’s account of Miller’s...
When People Want To Identify Themselves With A Favorite Artist (And, Oh Yes, Buy...
If visitors are willing to spend that kind of money to dress up like a favorite artist, that’s because today’s art-loving public finds as...
