Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Canadians Have To Move To The US To Find Success
Canada’s tidy, modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on its creative professions. There’s also something very stay-in-your-lane about the presumption that a Canadian artist...
Stratford Festival Unveils New Theatre
In 2018, the facility — a former curling rink-turned-theatre — underwent a $72-million demolition and reconstruction, a project completed in 2020. However, as a result of the...
The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Cultural Phenomenon (And This Year Is Unusually So)
The world’s biggest music event, famed for bringing Europe together, is happening during the biggest threat to unity on the European continent since the...
What Qualifies As Ukrainian Music?
Before Ukraine gained independence from Russia in 1991, it would have been as natural for a young Prokofiev to head off to Moscow as...
Mrs. Doubtfire Calls It Quits On Broadway
The musical, which has been posting middling box office numbers during the industry’s crowded spring season, will end its run at the Stephen Sondheim...
The Next Version Of Authenticity Online: BeReal?
To summarize the BeReal user experience: once a day, at a random time, the app sends a push notification to its users, granting them...
How I Learned To Appreciate The Intelligence Of Trees
The idea of intelligence without a brain can sound mystical or speculative, but the initiative has attracted quite a lot of human intelligence so...
New York Is Getting Rid Of Auction Regulations. Why?
Unlike the banking industry, the art trade has few rules that govern its dynamics, but for Americans it seems that even these are too...
How To Publish Books In Wartime Ukraine (It Ain’t Easy)
In addition to what was left behind at the office, there was another enormous problem for the publishing house: its warehouses are also located...
The Art Of Translating For Journalists
Translators do their best to represent the journalists conducting the interviews, while also acting — intentionally or not — as connectors across cultural divides. -...
Pianist Alexander Toradze, 69
During the second of the two concertos, he experienced acute heart failure while performing, but Toradze kept on playing, unaware of the medical danger. -...
Study: Brain Fluid From Young Mice Improves Memory In Old Mice
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from young mice can improve memory function in older mice, researchers report today in Nature. - Nature
The “Big Beasts” Of The 1980s Literary Scene
In the 1980s more writers were able to earn a living from writing – though those writers were, of course, largely male and, broadly...
I Feel Like This Shouldn’t Happen…
The rub for many is that the phrase sounds wishy-washy, as if there is an epidemic of hedging amid a new generation. Some have...
Breakthrough: Google Says It Will Pay 300 News Publishers In Europe For Their Stories
"So far, we have agreements which cover more than 300 national, local and specialist news publications in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands and...
The iPod Is Finally Dead. Here Are All The Music Players It Vanquished
Some say it was overdue, some lament that it remains a missed opportunity, but the truth of the matter is, the iPod has left...
Ukrainian Dancers Have Spread To The Wind
Some have taken up arms in their country’s defense or have been working to get medical supplies to the frontline. (One died after being injured when Russian...
The Boston Classical Music Radio Station That Changed Its Approach And Won New Listeners
CRB’s recent listener data suggests that a growing share of younger listeners are responding to that sense of discovery. In February 2014 the median...
So These Are Just The Realities Of Trying To Sell Theatre During COVID
Even with understudies and swing performers, The Rep had to cancel 15 out of 49 total shows due to the quantity of cases and...
What Happened To Seattle’s Dance Scene?
The lack of support manifests in a dearth of affordable studio space, limited funding and fewer platforms for emerging artists to perform. It’s an...
Josh Hawley’s Copyright Law Proposal Is Deeply Unserious
This is not a radical rethinking of copyright. It is regression as a meme, a fart in the wind, an empty and cynical gesture meant...
Of NFTs, Art, And Cynical Branding
Setting aside the fact that this may be one of the most depressing sentences that anyone has ever written about art, if “branding” does...
Ukraine Makes Finals Of The Eurovision Song Contest
Ukraine’s folk-rap band Kalush Orchestra has qualified for the final. But the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organises Eurovision, ruled that no Russian act would be...
Geroge Carlin Is Popular Today — Comedy That Outlives Its Time
Carlin is a venerated figure in his chosen field who unites performers as disparate as Joe Rogan and Jim Gaffigan, but he’s also someone...
How To Recover Post-Great Book
This "post-book blues" thing is a side-effect that doesn't seem to get mentioned much, if at all. It's not an in-person relationship as such,...
