Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Investigation: Live Nation Subsidiaries Got COVID Bail Out Money Intended For Indy Stages
Live Nation as a parent company did not directly receive any money from the program, but the government relief to its subsidiaries still protected...
The End Of The Middle Class Musician?
It’s hard to figure out how many people are making a middle-class living on music streaming, but I note that you don’t earn the...
Want To Know What’s Wrong With Broadway? Producer Emanuel Azenberg Will Tell You
We’ve chased away an audience. The theater owners hate the unions, the unions hate the producers and the producers hate the theater owner. None...
Canadian Government Wants To Spend $800 Million On Rebuilding BC Museum?
It has become a hot political issue: $789-million to build a new museum? That feels like a lot to some British Columbians, particularly as...
Iconic Seattle Actor John Aylward, 75
“An accomplished and widely respected actor, John left an indelible mark on the Seattle theater community and on everyone he collaborated with over his...
Public TV Fundraising Telethons Are Losing Their Effectiveness
An analysis by Contributor Development Partnership of March pledge results reported a 24% decline in the number of gifts year-over-year, a nearly 5.5% drop...
Workers At The Whitney Museum Protest Wages At Gala
Workers at the museum rang bells, chanted, and cheered when taxi drivers and chauffeurs who just dropped off their employers honked in support of...
The Ways Disabilities Are Being Portrayed Are Changing
Children’s literature is definitely getting better at representation. Indeed, when I asked disabled friends and acquaintances to name their favourite disabled character, almost all...
The Morality Of Critics
Although perhaps you might say that literary critics in a certain sense are custodians of the language. I think there has been a tradition,...
Could a New $100 Million Movie Studio Transform Newark’s Economy?
One study estimated that the Newark project could bring as many as 600 long-term jobs and a constellation of new business opportunities to the...
How Our Memory Is Becoming More Specialized
Memorizing can become a highly specialized act, based on regular practice and rehearsal. A singer, though fully capable of performing the role of say...
Head Of Cannes’ First Tiktok Festival Jury Quits Over Concerns About Independence
“The difficulty is that TikTok is a marketing-focused company and fails to understand creators and their independence…They kept asking me for reports on our...
What It’s Like To Spend Your Life In Translation
To spend a lot of time with your head in dictionaries is to understand the extent to which your head is made up of...
What Cancer Therapy Is Teaching Us About The Vast Complexity Of The Human Condition
How can immunotherapy cure a 65-year-old, newly retired man of Stage IV lung cancer, restoring the promise of his golden years with his family,...
How Does Activist Art Fit In The Big Business Of Art Selling?
Can activism thrive within the strip-lit booths of essentially glorified trade shows? And does the commodification of protest art render its radical impulses null...
We Need A New Conversation About Music Powered By AI
We begin with the hypothesis that, due to the rate of growth and development of A.I. technology, #resistanceisfutile. Which is to say that computer-composed...
Guardian Readers Choose Their Favorite Modern Architecture
Buildings with plenty of personality - The Guardian
Greek Movie Composer Vangelis, 79
He won an Oscar for the stirring score to 1981's Chariots of Fire, which was followed by Blade Runner a year later. Paying tribute,...
How Toronto Movie Theatres Survived COVID
“We had a few fully-masked concerts. We did livestreaming. We had a couple of adverts filmed here. We sold takeout meal kits when we...
How Color Repeatedly Surprises Us
For some philosophers, the experience of color is most similar to that of pain: an internal state that resists quantification. But who wouldn’t rather...
Somehow The Internet Went Wrong. We Could Fix It
Many of us find ourselves in the alienating position of using (even relying on) technology companies we distrust and hate, knowing that they are...
This Year’s Tonys – A Cry For Normalcy
At the end of a bumpy Broadway season that started late and was repeatedly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the once-ordinary rituals of Tonys time have...
Classics? How Do We Define Them?
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25...
Love Wordle? Well, Here’s Artle
A new game, Artle, launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts...
The Einstein Franchise – Rapacious And Wealthy
Einstein had been a well-paid man. His Princeton salary of $10,000 – roughly $180,000 in today’s money – was set by the university to...
