Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Tennessee Is Fighting A Culture War Over What Books Students Can Read
“It looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize nudity and normalize vulgar language,” said Mike Cochran, a school board member....
European Theatre Pioneers A Kind Of Tour That’s Climate-Friendly
It is an unusual production model in European theater, where directors tend to have the final word on every iteration of their work. The...
New Clue In The Gardner Museum Heist?
Anthony Amore, chief of security for the Gardner museum, tells Boston 25 News that a recent tipster prompted officials to take another look at the murder...
Valery Gergiev, Political Cautionary Tale?
What is happening here represents just the latest, though perhaps the most glaring, iteration of an age-old conundrum. What expectations do we have — should we...
Star Russian Conductor Suspended For Starting Performance With A Wish For Peace
Before the performance, conductor Ivan Velikanov — a star on the Russian music scene hailed as "the new Teodor Currentzis" — came on stage, gave...
Famous Hollywood Celebrity Biographer Dishes On Herself
Regardless of one’s opinions about Kitty Kelley, or her methodology, there can be no denying that her brand of take-no-prisoners celebrity journalism — the...
Behind The Scenes Of Furious Debates About Changing The Oscars Broadcast
In the end, rather than dropping 12 categories altogether from the telecast, the Academy was able to satisfy ABC with the current plan, which...
A Year Ago A Beeple Sale Started An NFT Gold Rush. So Has It...
In the 12 months since, something like $44 billion has been spent on about six million NFTs, usually issued to certify digital creations but...
Why The Sale Of Bandcamp Matters To Musicians
With Bandcamp’s model, buying an album feels like an investment in both the music and the artist, and as a result it’s the best...
New Dr. Seuss Books Inspired By His Sketches
Leaving nothing to chance after the previous book banning, the new works will be written, drawn and edited by what’s described as a group...
Spotify Quits Russia
Spotify said Wednesday it has closed its office in Russia indefinitely because of the “unprovoked attack on Ukraine.” Social media companies with more than...
The First TikTok War
The war has become content, flowing across every platform at once. A single tweet earned the clip more than ten million views, but it...
What If The Internet Is Actually A Living Thing?
Could it be that the internet is not best seen as a lifeless artifact, contraption, gadget, or mere tool, but as a living system,...
Do Birds Have Languages?
Both birdsong and language are passed culturally to later generations through vocal learning. Geographically distant populations of the same bird species can make small...
Okay, So This Is Creepy: New Google Tech Monitors Your Movement Without Cameras
It sounds futuristic and perhaps more than a little invasive—a computer watching your every move? But it feels less creepy once you learn that these...
Even During COVID, State Of Georgia Rings Up Record Spending On Movie Production
Georgia film production in the 2021 fiscal year exceeded its pre-pandemic pace, setting a new record of $4.1 billion in direct spend from productions...
Netflix Is Obligated To Carry Russian Propaganda In Russia. It Isn’t… For Now
News that Netflix would likely be forced to broadcast Russian propaganda sparked a furious response from subscribers in the West, with hundreds taking to...
London: The Theatre’s Great. The Going To Theatre Not So Much
I’d been able to stop thinking about the ventilation, wondering what I was breathing and whether it was worth it. I decided it wasn’t...
6,500 Russian Architects Sign Letter Protesting Invasion Of Ukraine
More than 6,500 Russian architects, designers and urban planners have signed an open letter to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and "demand the immediate end of...
ASCAP Reports Record Revenue For 2021
Increases in collections from the audio streaming and audio-visual sectors pushed ASCAP’s domestic revenue to $1.011 billion in 2021, up 4.4%, an increase of...
Michael Tilson Thomas Announces He Has Cancer, Will Step Back From New World Symphony
Saying he was “taking stock of my life,” Thomas, 77, the former music director of the San Francisco Symphony, said he was reducing his...
13,000 Russian Artists Demand Putin Quit Ukraine
An open letter demanding the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has attracted the signatures of over 13,000 Russian art workers on Google Docs—even though...
How Social Media Distorts Culture
Social media enables people to make, shape, and share anything they want and call it their own, even when it’s not—further helps to distort...
AMC Movie Theatres Experiment With Variable Ticket Pricing
“This is all quite novel in the United States, but actually AMC has been doing it for years in our European theaters. Indeed, in...
