Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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...
A Vast Mayan Kingdom Discovered In Guatemala
Their findings reveal a “level of infrastructure that is just mind-boggling,” said Dr. Timothy Beach, a professor of geography at the University of Texas at...
Penguin Random House CEO Steps Down
Madeline McIntosh, a popular figure in publishing circles who steered Penguin Random House U.S. through the recent Covid-19 pandemic and championed a more inclusive...
The Baby Boomers Changed Everything. What Happens When They’re Gone?
They were a cohort of historically unprecedented size, whose basic need to be clothed, fed, housed and educated was a decades-long jobs creator and...
Last Week A Plan To Close The Vancouver Folk Music Festival. This Week A...
An open letter from the board says several parties have offered possible solutions for funding and support since it announced the plan to end...
Why We’re Missing Memories From The Pandemic
We might assume that our pandemic memories are missing because information entered our brains, then slipped from it—like a toy tumbling out of a clumsy...
A Nun From 900 Years Ago Had A Profound Influence On Music (And Does...
Hildegard’s fame has crossed over into zones of New Age spirituality, environmental discourse, and feminist thought. In the gift shop at the Hildegard Abbey,...
A Successful Life? Freedom From Anxiety
The more general such claims are, the easier it is to agree. But when we delve into what makes the various philosophers different, what...
