Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
That Time Duke Ellington Made A Record With A Single Copy Just For Elizabeth...
We created a unique album solely for the pleasure of giving it to Queen Elizabeth. With the help of Billy Strayhorn, he composed The Queen’s...
A First: University Offers Degree In Chess
Webster University in St. Louis is renowned for attracting top-notch chess talent to its school, and now its School of Education is offering a...
How Book Battles Roiled A Texas Town And Put Librarians On The Front Lines
Strategies on how to lodge complaints against books are traded on Facebook and shared among branch chapters of parental rights groups. One of the...
Putin Stifles Artists As War Goes Badly
The number of banned theater directors, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians had been growing by the day. “I look around and I cannot find anything...
San Francisco Opera At 100
From modest beginnings in 1922, the company has grown and blossomed to become one of the preeminent organizations in American opera. - San Francisco...
The Internet Should Be Public Space. It’s Not. Time To De-Privatize?
There’s a lot of discussion today, including in Congress, about why parts of the web are so toxic and what to do about it—better content...
The Tangled Strings Around Freedom Of Speech
Free speech requires a robust exchange of views without the coercion of threats and violence, and self-censorship in response to social pressure is a...
Why We Need To Think About Science Literacy In A Different Way
Several lines of contemporary scholarship emphasize what might be gained by moving from a focus on science education to a focus on reciprocal power-sharing,...
Messy City, Clean City: The Tension That Makes London London
This distinction between the messy and the neat, the organic and the planned, helps us understand why London so often dislikes modern buildings. Modern...
Reconsidering Gauguin (In Fiction)
Daisy Lafarge’s debut novel, Paul, takes a unique approach to an ongoing question: How, in the age of the #MeToo movement, should we interact with...
A Life Well-Lived: Remembering Lars Vogt
Vogt brought people together in many places and on many levels: at his Spannungen festival in Heimbach, Germany, which became a musical home for...
How Today’s Billionaires Distort And Impede Things We Care About
The great fortunes of today's robber-barons have a vast, distorting influence on our society, bending our most urgent projects away from evidence-based policy and...
Inside Riccardo Muti’s Relationship With The Chicago Symphony
“You are the last orchestra and the most important orchestra where I have been music director. Your memory will accompany me in my heart...
This Summer’s Movie Box Office: Disappointing. Cause: Not Enough Movies
It was the lowest haul since 2001, when summer movies earned $3.34 billion at domestic theaters. The summer season typically accounts for about 40%...
Authors, Publishers Urge New UK Government To Reform Policies On Libraries, EBooks
With the cost-of-living crisis taking hold, the publishing industry hopes Truss and her government will bring in a range of measures to ensure people...
How COVID Changed The Gallery Opening Reception
“If we do three smaller events around an opening, it’s just that much better for the artist and for my team to be able...
The Minefield Of Staging Shakespeare Today
"It is a feeling of being in a minefield where some things are permitted and some not, but you don’t know which, or that...
Tom Stoppard At 85
At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.” The house...
Has Roger Norrington Finally Unlocked The Mozart Code?
"I’ve tried to play Mozart well for 60 years now. When I started I had little clue. How fast should it go? (There are...
Sundance’s Next Leader
Hernandez, who currently serves as the senior vice president of Film at Lincoln Center, the executive director of the New York Film Festival and the...
The Avant Garde: I Used To Be A Contendah!
An avant-garde likes to present itself as insurgent and radical, yet the logic of the metaphor suggests that a new group will soon be...
What Luck In War Teaches Us About Your Odds In Life
It is not just in war and sport that luck plays such a great part. In our interconnected global economy, every business operates in...
When Goethe’s House Was Destroyed In WWII, Rebuilding Became Controversial
As Goethe later recalled in his autobiography, it was to the house that he owed his literary awakening. It was there, gazing at his family’s...
Canada’s Griffin Prize For Poetry Goes International
In announcing this shift, prize founder Scott Griffin said that Canadian poets are capable of competing on the world stage. “Yes, Canadians will not...
Australia Is Having An Extraordinary Debate On Cultural Policy
‘When you get it right, it affects our health policy, our education policy, our environment policy, foreign affairs, trade, veterans’ affairs, tourism… A nation...
