Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Restaurants Consider Ditching Recorded Music Because Of Higher Licensing Fees
The National Restaurant Assn. said its members pay an average of $4,500 per year to license music, or 0.5% of the average U.S. small...
The Harvard Linguist Who’s Figured Out How Algorithms Have Shaped Our Language
“I want to balance being a ‘ha-ha funny’ TikToker with academic credibility. It’s a little hard to strike that balance when you are talking...
La Scala To Ticket-Buyers: No Flip Flops! (We Mean It!!)
The venue is stepping up the enforcement of its dress code this summer, reminding patrons via signs in the foyer to dress “in keeping...
Executive Director, IN Series
IN SERIES, one of the nation’s leading companies for innovative “small” Opera and music-theater work, invites applications for the newly created full-time position, Executive Director
Does It Matter if That Art You Liked Was Fake?
I wondered what it meant if the Greek water jar I had been so moved by, depicting a woman who may have been Sappho...
The Bayeux Tapestry Was Too Fragile To Move. So Now It’s Visiting England? What...
The shift in tone may seem stark, but the Bayeux Museum said it had carried out tests – including a dress rehearsal with a...
Scrappy Indie Publisher John Martin, 94
Martin, an adventurous independent publisher who brought out the raucous work of the poet Charles Bukowski, as well as the writing of other offbeat...
Casing The Joint: Homeland Security Descends On Chicago’s National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts
According to the museum, officers told staff that they were there in an attempt to assess places where undocumented immigrants might enter and leave...
Oakland Eliminates Its Top Arts Manager Position
The Oakland City Council passed a budget on June 11 that eliminated its Cultural Affairs Manager position, citing budgetary concerns. But critics say money-saving...
How Ancient Water Clocks Changed Our Notions Of Time
As ancient civilisations began to need more reliable timekeeping mechanisms, the technology took an extraordinary leap forward with the advent of dependable water clocks,...
Museums Are Rethinking The Environmental Costs Of Collection Climate Controls
These decades-old guidelines determine the temperature and relative humidity at which museums maintain their collections, but implementing them comes with high energy costs and...
How Slow-Motion Became The Movies’ Go-To Effect
The “slow-mo effect,” is retrospective, a trick of memory. Still, it indicates a remarkable theatricality, a cinematic flair, on the part of our brains....
Gen Zers Are Flocking To NYC Art Schools
The surge comes as many young adults grapple with fears about the impacts of artificial intelligence, a sense of internet overload and a desire...
How Trump’s BBBill Will Impact Non-Profits
Provisions in the new law raise unsettling questions about how the nonprofit world will be affected — and the answers may not be known...
Creative Tree Of The Year?
Ten nominees have been chosen to meet this year’s theme of “rooted in culture”, which seeks to highlight how trees inspire creative minds and...
How Leisure Became Digital
For many Canadians, play has migrated from board games or the rec leagues to smartphone screens. It’s no longer confined to the weekend or...
How The Grateful Dead Made Live Music Sound Great At Concerts
Phil Spector had famously created a figurative wall of sound by layering instruments and orchestral sweeps. But the Dead’s wall was essentially a behemoth...
HBO Returns, Conceding Its Brand Change Was A Colossal Blunder
The gambit to chase Netflix with a service called Max didn’t work. Warner Bros. Discovery’s leaders eventually recognized the tremendous value in the HBO...
YouTube Is Being Overwhelmed By AI Slop. So Some New Creator Rules…
Alphabet has to acknowledge not only the downsides of AI, but its potential to overwhelm platforms that rely on user-generated content—in other words, rein...
Roadshow: America’s Midwest Art Museums
Arriving at art museums after four or five hours on these roads, day after day, is reliably uplifting. Everything is reversed. You’re in a...
Actors Unions Approve New Video Game Contract, Ending Strike
As with the dual strikes in 2023, artificial intelligence was a big sticking point in negotiations. As such, the new contract establishes performer safety guardrails and...
Training A New Generation Of Dancers For A Different Kind Of Career
"Today’s young adults have also been through the Covid shutdown, and they’re starting their careers at a time of huge financial uncertainty." - ArtsATL
The Bayeux Tapestry To Return To UK – First Time In 1000 Years
Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically. The Bayeux tapestry would have...
Bay Area Theatres Are Folding. The Theatre Landscape Is Collapsing
"We, in the nonprofit theater world, rely on a model that is really not working for anybody. It wasn’t working before the pandemic. The...
Trump-Announced TikTok Sale Raises Questions
M2 appears to be an end-run around this issue, allowing ByteDance to pour in those ingredients but then step away to let Americans run...
