Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Canada Doubles Down On Canadian Content Rules For Media
The CRTC's moves toward greater flexibility for radio include introducing new criteria to determine whether a song is Canadian, including refining content categories to...
The Gamification Of Everything Is A Fraud
The application of game design principles like leaderboards, progress bars, points, badges, levels, challenges, and activity streaks to nongame ends has seeped into just...
A Seattle Business Blasts Classical Music To Harass Homeless Encampment
Nearby business owners said the Comcast Service Center has been playing loud music from a surveillance system with a speaker for about a month...
Big Cable Networks Are Failing In The Age Of Streaming
NBCUniversal, Paramount Global and Walt Disney together own dozens of underperforming cable networks that are quickly losing relevance in the age of streaming. -...
Theatre Director Quits After UK Arts Funding Cuts
Roxana Silbert has quit as the north London theatre’s artistic director because of the financial constraints it is facing after Arts Council England’s decision...
Hollywood’s Streaming Ambitions Hit A Business Model Collapse
“It was our belief that cord-cutting losses would be offset by gains in streaming. This has not been the case. We are primarily a...
Qatar’s Unreal New Landscape Of Amazing New Buildings
Qatar spent a reported $220 billion preparing for the tournament, conjuring new buildings, new neighborhoods and even an entirely new city. To be here now...
Behind Disney’s Bob Swap
It’s a story about how to structure a company like Disney. Then you add in the complexity of the shift to streaming, the future...
The Cost Of Over-Selling Products With Ideas
Rather than informing a population of philosophically fulfilled, elevated beings, the ubiquity of all this bite-sized meaning has had an adverse effect, fuelling our...
Canceling “Exotic” In Ballet?
Demanding apologies and cancellation might seem an over-the-top reaction to the staging of this apparently benign ballet staple. However, the representation of many of...
AI-Generated Avatars Are Wildly Popular. Artists Aren’t Happy
Multiple artists have accused Stable Diffusion of using their art without permission. Many in the digital art space have also expressed qualms over AI models producing...
KPOP Musical Closes On Broadway After Only Two Weeks
The wager on “KPOP” hasn’t paid off, ticket sales data show. “KPOP” was one of Broadway’s lowest-selling shows in recent weeks, according to the Broadway League,...
How Post-COVID-Lockdown Dance Has Changed In Los Angeles
After experiencing the tolls of the pandemic — loss, stillness and uncertainty — the work of 2022 introduced new techniques, technologies and narratives that...
A Scientific Analysis Of How Popular Music Has Changed
The study of patterns and long-term variations in popular music could shed new light on relevant issues concerning its organization, structure and dynamics. More...
Culture Is Under Attack Worldwide. We Ought To Confront It Now
As a group, arts leaders from all sectors and geographies must now recognize the threats to cultural institutions: potential physical harm to artists; damages...
How Diversity Makes Orchestras Better
“For me, diversity is always a thing I like to think about as sort of necessary to enhance the vibrancy of an organization. Even...
Will Neuroscience Be Able To Predict When (And With Whom) You’ll Fall In Love?
"I’m a scientist myself, but I find it a bit unsettling that a brain scientist or computer might accurately predict whom I’ll fall in...
David Geffen Hall Reimagined
Does a concert hall with great natural sound matter anymore? - Architectural Record
Libraries As Activist Organizations?
The condemnation of the history of the American library, by its own gatekeepers, has done more than bring “Drag Queen Story Hour” to every...
Closing Of A Literary Magazine Demonstrates The Perilous Nature Of Literary Magazines
Its short existence offers insight both into what is possible for a literary magazine to accomplish and into the tenuous place such publications occupy...
London’s National Gallery Cancels Exhibition With Pushkin Museum
Although it was never publicized, the two institutions were to have jointly presented next year’s exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, but the arrangement was...
Steven Dietz: New Theatre Is More Important Now Than Ever
"We quit on the theatre much more readily than the theatre quits on us. I am aware now—as a working artist in my 60s—that...
Woman Arrested For Spraying Fake Blood On Toulouse-Lautrec Painting in Berlin Museum
The incident was reminiscent of recent climate actions at European museums, however the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it has been deemed an...
Why Theatre Isn’t Just For The Privileged
We have to collect the stories and inspire people, rather than fighting hipsters and fighting people who are gentrifiers—people don’t really understand how gentrification...
Theatre That Redefines “Disabilities”
“Disability theatre is not all cute little community projects. I know that sounds like I’m dissing community projects, but that’s not what I mean...