Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Pianist Lara Downes Brings A New Vision To Classical Music Radio
"I think a radio show, like an album, needs to create a sound world. Each show is an emotional journey with dips and swells....
An Innovative And Important New Model For Touring Theatre?
It binds far-flung companies looking for new models for joint offerings. And it brings to theatergoers across the country a play with an inclusive...
What We Can Learn About Fighting Misinformation From Arnold’s Video For The Russian People
Contrary to what you might think, it’s not about simply giving them more info. It’s about reaching them on an emotional level. - Politifact
NEA: Arts Economy Shrank At Twice The Rate Of Overall Economy
New data released last week by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) quantifies the extent of the damage: Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy...
Teheran Museum Director Fired After Performance Art Mishap
The dismissal came in the wake of a performance art mishap at the museum that saw Yaser Khaseb accidentally fall into a large, artist-designed pool of...
Top Editors Quit Buzzfeed News, Big Cuts On The Way
The high-profile departures come on the same day that BuzzFeed released its fourth-quarter earnings report, which showed a 12% drop in earnings before interest,...
Global Music Sales Jump To Record Level In 2021
Revenues surged by 18.5% to $25.9bn (£19.5bn) in 2021, the highest level since records began in the 1990s. The growth was driven by streaming,...
Russians Bomb Ukraine Art School
The G12 school is the second cultural institution in the besieged city of Mariupol to be attacked in a matter of days. On March...
Has Education Entered A Dark Age?
"What I soon discovered was that none of them had much idea how to make an argument in any context. Nor were they particularly...
Is “Moral Clarity” — Even About Ukraine — Anti-Democratic?
My Russian training prompted a question: How could a situation where everyone was morally bound to agree help overcome a collectivist mindset? Freedom and...
We Need A Sign Language Literature
Most of the time, when we translate something, we think about the act of translation as changing the meaning that comes from one language...
Norway’s Much-Delayed $500 Million Museum Finally To Open
Located on Oslo’s western waterfront, the £500m museum will be the biggest in the Nordic region when it opens on 11 June. - The Guardian
Petition Against Premiere Of New Emmet Till Opera
Mya Bishop first launched her petition earlier this week, which has already received over 10,000 signatures, asking the public to "urge" the college to "cancel the...
Okay, So The Arts Shouldn’t Take Fossil Fuel Money. What’s The Alternative?
What are the alternatives to corporate arts partnerships with links to fossil fuels? (Because, let’s face it, once you start looking, coal, oil and...
How Barcelona’s Superblocks Idea Could Be Adopted In Other Cities
As cities become more dense—moving in the direction of the “15-minute city,” where offices and simple errands are a short walk or bike ride...
Evolving COVID Policies Are Putting Cultural Institutions In Impossible Positions
Cultural institutions are left having to figure out not only which policies are right to protect their patrons, but which ones their patrons want,...
Progressives Are Fighting Book Bans (And Getting Them Overturned)
The progressive wins are a development that looked unlikely as the right wing, often through organizations with connections to wealthy Republican donors, has introduced bill...
LA’s New Academy Movie Museum Will Rethink How It Portrays Industry Founders
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was not far past its 2021 opening when people began asking how, in a museum devoted to a diverse and...
Report: Hungarian Government Is Suppressing Artists
The report's authors say that Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, have achieved this through a combination of consolidated state power and pressure on artists...
Scientists Watch A Memory Being Formed In A Living Brain
From earlier work, they had expected the brain to encode the memory by slightly tweaking its neural architecture. Instead, the researchers were surprised to...
Lab In Virginia Working To Save Ukraine Treasures
Created last year in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Cultural Rescue Initiative — a world leader in this field — the lab is compiling...
The iPhone Uses AI To Enhance Images. Is It Too Smart To Take Good...
A careful examination of the 13 Pro noted visual glitches caused by the device’s intelligent photography, including the erasure of bridge cables in a...
The World Heritage Sites At Risk In Ukraine
Among the UNESCO World Heritage monuments in immediate danger of destruction is the irreplaceable 11th-century cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. - The Conversation
Researchers Are Using AI To Understand Animal Language
Researchers are using AI to parse the “speech” of animals, enabling scientists to create systems that, for example, detect and monitor whale songs to...
The Oscars And Baseball: “Fixing” Them Is Making Them Worse
Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen. But it may be that viewers are tuning out because the...
