Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Does Duke Ellington Need A Revival?
Ellington’s legacy — as large and as meaningful as that of any artist in American history — remains enigmatic. We honor him, put him...
Canada Debates New Canadian Content Law For Streamers
The Online Streaming Act, introduced Wednesday, would force web firms to offer a set amount of Canadian content and invest heavily in Canada’s cultural...
John Williams At 90: Still Underrated?
A 28-film, nearly 50-year collaboration with Spielberg. Fifty-two Oscar nominations – the most for a living person and second only to Walt Disney –...
Artists On Strike, A History
As artists become more politically active today, it is worth remembering that John Reed Clubs and New York’s Artists Union organized strikes to negotiate federal arts programs during...
A World Without Spotify? Really?
As welcome as the protests are, they do not address the fundamental injustice of the streaming economy. - The New Yorker
Dutch Publisher Stops Printing Of Book Claiming Identity Of Man Who Turned In Anne...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, released on Jan. 18, caused a sensation when it said investigators had named Arnold van den Bergh as the main...
A Crossroads For LA’s Largest Theatre
This Los Angeles cultural institution is at a crossroads as it goes through its first leadership change in 17 years, and confronts questions about...
Yale To Reevaluate Donor Influence
Concerns about inappropriate donor influence at Yale rose after The New York Times reported in September that Beverly Gage, a professor of history, had quietly resigned...
Revealed: Millions Of Dollars Of Art Laundered Through Shell Companies
More than 1,600 works of art by some 400 artists were quietly shuffled through shell companies in tax havens according to records from the...
The Woman Who Can See 100 Million Colors
Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat, which means she has a fourth colour receptor in her retina compared with the standard three which most people...
Literature’s Greatest Year: 1922
The response of artists and writers was to remake their work: a way of seeking either to control the strange and uncontrollable, or simply...
How Your Culture Determines How You Hear Music
While commonalities certainly exist the differences were astounding. How could it be that Rossini’s humorous comic operas, which have been bringing laughter and joy...
Teachers Are Quitting And In High Demand In Other Industries
Teachers’ ability to absorb and transmit information quickly, manage stress and multitask are high-demand skills, recruiters and careers coaches say. - The Wall Street Journal
The Coolest Architecture You’ll See At The Beijing Olympics
Here are the most architecturally significant venues, including a new stadium by Populous and the world's first permanent structure for big air extreme snow jumping. -...
The Objects That Have Gone Away
What if these objects had survived? What might that alternative world be like? This idea of a parallel material universe, in which some of...
How Ailey Director Robert Battle Got His Creative Chops Back
The pandemic smothered everything, wiping Battle’s calendar clean, and crazy as it sounds, it helped him. The shutdown provided space, and the racial reckoning,...
New NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson Talks About The NEA’s Future
“We’re striving for people to have artful lives, and artful lives are about participation as audiences and they are also about making, doing, teaching,...
How NFT’s Can Preserve Street Art
“By scanning a mural and turning it into an NFT, we forever immortalize the art.” - Wired
Eight-Year-Old Writes Book, Hides It In Library — It’s A Hit!
The book, “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis” by the author “Dillon His Self,” had drawn so much attention by the end of January...
First International Orchestras In Two Years Return To Tour US
With their own instruments and evening clothes in hand, the Royal Philharmonic completed a 14-concert, nine-city U.S. tour on Monday night, the first international...
Crisis? More Than Half Of America’s Teachers Say They Want To Quit
The survey shows that 55% of teachers now say that because of the pandemic, they’re going to leave the profession sooner than they’d planned....
Time For Moliere To Ascend The Pantheon
Last year, the actor Francis Huster passionately made the case for the reinterment of Molière within the Panthéon, Molière’s remains having had a long...
What Makes You – Your Body, Not Just Its Memories
Personhood is a property of the whole body, and the whole body is implicated in how both personhood and an individual person can persist in the face of...
Why A New Focus On Black Writers Doesn’t Feel Like Victory
As a Black author, what do I do with the knowledge that the cruel and senseless murder of a Black human being led to...
Why More Musicians Aren’t Pulling Their Work From Spotify
The reasons why more artists haven’t abandoned Spotify include a stew of political hesitancies, music ownership complications and business incentives. The issues speak to...
