Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Elusive Search For The Perfect Recording
Tom Port believes that records are like snowflakes — no two are the same. So many things can impact the pressing, including room temperature,...
Is Apple Music About Launch A Classical Service?
References to Apple Classical in code were previously found in a beta version of iOS 15.5, and an Android version of Apple Music. The...
Realigning: Ballet For The Rest Of Us
Founded in Los Angeles in 2011 by Michael Cornell, the Align Ballet Method was born out of a desire to make ballet approachable for...
Bruce Willis Becomes First Celeb To License His “Digital Twin” For Acting Work
Using deepfake technology, the actor appeared in a phone advert without ever being on set, after his face was digitally transplanted onto another performer. Willis...
How Your Brain Rewires Itself In Your 40s
The brain begins becoming less connected within those separate networks and more connected globally across networks. By the time we reach our 80s, the...
Simple Question: How Many Black Musicians Play In America’s Orchestras?
"We do not know how many Black people are in orchestras. And I say that as a representative of Black Orchestral Network. One of...
Tanglewood Breaks The New Norm In Rebounding After COVID
The season total represented a decline of 7 percent compared to 2019, when 311,596 patrons attended 248 performances. Because there were 44 fewer events...
Inside One Of America’s Last Two Piano Factories
Not long ago, piano factories like this were one of America’s largest and most formidable industries, employing tens of thousands of workers. Today, only...
Canadian Museums Issue Guidelines To Decolonize Museums
The Association urges legislation to support the repatriation of Indigenous belongings and remains of ancestors, and dedicated funding for the repatriation process. It was...
How A Texas Court Ruling On First Amendment Could Break The Internet
A state compelling social-media companies to host all user content without restrictions isn’t merely “the most angrily incoherent First Amendment decision I think I’ve...
The Vocabulary Problem (And What Makes Language Fun)
The problem arises because people use different words for the same thing. Your wallet is stolen, and you’re going to google what to do....
Russia Won’t Submit Entry For This Year’s International Oscar
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian films have not seen much travel to the west, particularly as those made with state...
Christie’s New NFT Platform Is Called Christie’s 3.0
“This is a platform for us to more rapidly scale our digital art offerings and do more frequent emerging artists auctions and work with...
Why It’s Difficult To Grasp The Concept Of Time
Physicists and philosophers may have different approaches to the structure of time, but what unites them is a rejection of the notion that that...
The Thing About Sleep: It’s Essential
One thing that sleep researchers are pretty sure of is that every system in our body seems to be impacted by sleep. When we...
The Long Brave Effort It Takes To Get A Book Translated Into English
If anything, six years between the publication of the original text and its English translation is rather speedy, especially for a literary work whose...
Mondrian’s Fanatical Pursuit Of Perfection
“Beneath the surface there was always a major concern which would compromise with nothing. Even though, like Baudelaire’s albatross, he had ‘giant wings,’ he...
Why Axios’ “Short Brevity” Writing Style Isn’t So Smart (And Doesn’t Save You Time)
Skim an Axios story, and it will fly past so quickly you’ll have no idea what it says. You have to read carefully to grasp its...
Authors Protest Staff Pay At Iconic Australian Bookstore
“Readings can afford to pay a living wage to its workers. This is a multi-store business that, until 2021, posted profits for 25 consecutive...
Finland Is Forgoing Concrete For Wood In Its Buildings. Is This The Future?
Developers are increasingly swapping out more mainstream materials like concrete and steel, in favour of wood. It's linked to the country's ambitious efforts to...
Claim: Silicon Valley’s Attitudes On Sexual Censorship Are Harmful
At a time when attitudes toward sex work, transgender individuals, and other sexual minorities are by and large changing for the better, it is perhaps...
Portland Theatres Collaborate On New Venue Collective
The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will serve as a new building for small to midsize theatres such as Third Rail and PETE, and will serve...
Ambitious Plans For A New Bay Area Arts Venue
The project aims to nurture the artists and arts leaders of tomorrow by investing in arts education, including artists-in-schools programs, student performances, master classes,...
Research: Rethinking Baby Boomer Participation In The Arts
Findings confirmed this cohort ‘talked about how arts and culture helps them stay up to date; they use the phrase “to keep young, keep...
“Transformative” $22 Million Gift To Canadian Theatres
The money – gifted in sums from $125,000 to $1.5-million, to both big institutions and smaller independent theatre, mostly based in Toronto, all but...
