Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Scottish Ballet Is Latest Arts Company To Sever Ties With BP Funding
Campaigners have urged the arts and culture sector to cut all ties to oil companies over claims of greenwashing. BP said it was proud...
Seattle Arts Groups Say COVID Costs Are Crippling
To avoid costly shutdowns, they're shelling out for hospital-grade filtration systems, daily testing regimes for performers and crew, more staff to check vaccine cards...
The Role Of Fiction When “Facts” Don’t Mean Anything
The gap between the experiences of ordinary citizens and the perspectives of politicians and journalists widened throughout the long years of crisis. One damaging...
Watch How A Book Is Physically Made
While digital media completely upended industries like music, movies and newspapers, most publishers and authors still make the bulk of their money from selling...
North Carolina Symphony Picks New Music Director
Carlos Miguel Prieto, who will become the sixth Music Director of the NCS, has personal roots in North Carolina and has been a regular guest...
Exploring Dance As Therapy
Experts have said that exploring non-medical interventions which can be prescribed more quickly, such as dance programmes, should be considered as part of the...
Facebook Says It Will Build A Universal Translator
“The ability to communicate with anyone in any language — that’s a superpower people have dreamed of forever, and AI is going to deliver...
Supporters Of Ukraine Protest Gergiev Concerts Planned For NY This Week
Activists who support Ukraine are protesting a three-concert series at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall this weekend featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev. - NPR
Madonna Banned Phones At Her Performance. Should Theatres Follow Her Lead?
The Queen of Pop had insisted that everyone attending deposit their phones into small pouches, which were then sealed, given back to us to...
Does The Motion Picture Academy Have A Problem With Music?
It was a slap in the face to the hundreds of composers, arrangers, orchestrators, musicians, engineers and other professionals whose work provides the emotional...
A Short History Of The Book Index
In the mid-15th century, the mass production born of Gutenberg’s press began to make the index a regular feature of the bound book. But...
Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Banning Books
A new CBS News poll offers data that should prod Democrats into rethinking these culture-war battles. It finds that surprisingly large majorities oppose banning books on...
The Chinese Writers For The New Generation Of Chinese
Having come of age at a time of unprecedented prosperity and opportunity, many have been spoiled and are referred to as “little emperors,” doted...
Why More Cities Are Dismantling Rather Than Demolishing
Deconstruction, city officials say, is a green alternative to demolition, sending up to 85 percent less material to landfills. Building materials and construction account...
How Henry Louis Gates Changed The Literary Canon
As a literary critic, Gates made an impact on the field by helping to establish a canon of African American literature—one that was neither...
Why Subsuming The Australia Council Is A Bad Idea
The proposal to replace the Australia Council is evidence of why it is not– or at least, not yet – up to the task...
What Drives Your Art?
It’s not about the art. It’s not about the money. It’s not about the donors. It’s not about the audience. It’s not about the...
Retirees At The Getty Object To Offloading Their Pensions
Former employees of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have slammed its decision to hand its pension plan over to an insurance...
Long Wharf Theatre Giving Up Its Longtime Home
As the company remade itself, it faced a real estate quandary: whether to renew its expiring lease at the New Haven Food Terminal, just off...
Linguists Analyze “Q” Writings And Identify The Author
Two teams of forensic linguists say their analysis of the Q texts shows that Paul Furber, one of the first online commentators to call...
Facebook Dying? Unlikely
Facebook has already profoundly transformed how we understand ourselves in the digital age in a way that cannot be undone. Whether it survives is...
An End To International Touring For Orchestras?
Orchestras still face the possibility of disruption by future waves of the virus, making planning difficult. In some bustling international markets, including China, quarantine...
BP To End Longterm Sponsorship Of London’s National Portrait Gallery
Pressure group Culture Unstained called the news "a major win for the campaign against fossil fuel sponsorship". - BBC
How a Small Quebec Publisher Flipped The Page On Diversity
What happens when a press does more than increase its roster of writers of colour? What happens when diversity is built into its very...
Analyzing The Books That Paris’ Shakespeare & Company Lent In The 1920s
The Shakespeare and Company Project is a relational database and web application. The Project uses documents from the Sylvia Beach Papers at Princeton University...
