Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Banning Books Is Becoming Subtler (But Still Banning)
Though the publishing industry would never condone book banning, a subtler form of repression is taking place in the literary world, restricting intellectual and...
Report: How Canadians’ Listening Habits Are Changing
The yearly report shows a clear trend away from radio and physical media, led not surprisingly by younger Canadians. - Ludwig Van
Norman Lear At 100
“I think the big secret is never forgetting to wake up in the morning. It starts with getting out of bed,” Lear says. “But...
US Copyright Office Declines To Target Web Aggregators
The U.S. Copyright office, contrary to the approach taken in Europe, has declined to add an ancillary copyright for publishers to protect them from...
A New Hotel That’s All Broadway
All through the hallways and suites and lounges of the Civilian, a new 27-story, 203-room hotel a block from Times Square, guests can face everything...
Why Is San Francisco Opera Presenting An Opera On The Wrong Side Of History?
The idea that “the unborn” are in any sense people has always been an appalling misrepresentation. Today, in the wake of the recent Supreme...
Netflix Is In Trouble
Dreams of the company building a global base of 700 million or even 800 million paid memberships now seem far-fetched, given the company has stalled out...
The Epic Battle For Control Of A Legendary Music Club
This roadhouse drama has pitted neighbor against neighbor in a remote area where lots are the size of baseball fields and police cars seldom...
Hollywood Flocks To Eastern Europe
Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in...
The Writers Using AI To Help Them Create
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break...
Kaija Saariaho On Life As A Composer
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today,...
Record Number Of New Cultural Buildings In 2021
211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 - $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016...
The African Artist Collective Turning Colonialism On Its Head
Plantation workers there earn twenty or thirty dollars a month; as artists, they make much more. The collective has brought in more than a...
What, Actually, Is A Paragraph? Punctuation? Idea?
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as...
How Corporations Became Art Patrons
After 1945 a new form of artistic patronage arose, reflecting the rise of that icon of midcentury capitalism, the American corporation, and creating a...
Chicago Art Institute’s Lions Return After Vacation
The lions were removed for their spa treatment on June 14, having been outside for 128 years, Art Institute objects conservator Rachel Sabino told the...
Time To Give Duke Ellington The Pulitzer He Was Denied
In 1965 the Pulitzer board rejected a unanimous recommendation from the music jury to award Duke Ellington a special citation for long-term achievement.” It...
Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Names New Director
The position has been vacant since April of 2021, which Tom Loughman resigned, but the search for a new director really began in November...
Science: How We Learn Emotional Response
Parents constantly provide their children with emotion concepts to disambiguate what is going on. Especially towards the second year, when children start using emotion...
Ethics And What Art Gets Shown
The Wollongong Art Gallery needed to make some big calls after it was discovered that one of its prominent donors, who passed away 30...
Today’s Library Censorship Looks Different
Although the challenging of books and curriculum is hardly new in the United States, what we’re facing now is somewhat different. It is not...
Paul Taylor Dance Begins A New Era
The upshot of all this change is the emergence of a company that is more diverse, and more versatile, than ever before. Taylor dancers...
Consuming The News Depressed Me. So I Quit. But Is There A Way To...
I went to a therapist. She told me (ready?) to stop consuming the news. That felt wrong. Wasn’t it important to be informed? Quitting...
India’s Most Influential Artist
He was the first Indian artist who successfully combined Indian iconography and subjects with Western techniques and styles. His art influenced Indian literature, music,...
What University Museums Have To Teach The Broader Museum World
Here are five ways college and university museums model a braver future for the museum field at large. - Artnet