Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Opera As A Network Of Collaboration
Presented in Los Angeles by MOCA and the director Yuval Sharon’s company of operatic experimenters, the Industry, “The Comet/Poppea” was commissioned by the American Modern Opera...
Roger Wright Graduates From Aldeburgh
Concert planning and programming are still what he likes doing most of all, he says, but nonetheless he has found himself running an operation...
If Your Mind’s Eye Can’t Form Pictures As You Think…
If you ask me to describe someone I cannot see at that moment, or something, I have no idea how to do it since...
Report: Huge Disparities In Gender, Race, In Programming Among 111 Orchestras
The recent analysis of 16,327 compositions scheduled for performances revealed that 7.5% of works were composed by women (down from 7.7% in the 2021/22 report...
Giant Publisher Wiley Shuts 19 Scientific Journals — They Were Paper Mills
The journals that were withdrawn were all owned by Hindawi, a company Wiley bought in January 2021, that was later discovered to have a paper mill problem at...
In The Absence Of Support By Publishers, UK Authors Are Doing Their Own PR
According to independent events planners, publicists and marketers, more and more authors are seeking out their services to augment the efforts of their publishers’...
Vandals Deface King Charles’ Official Portrait
Members of the public have been free to visit the portrait of the monarch, which is on display at the Philip Mould gallery in...
What We Lost When Art And Science Split
Today, it is generally assumed that the arts and humanities are more feminine than the sciences. Comparing the two eras shows that our 21st-century...
Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre Reopens After Restoration
In Wright’s days, the venue would host weekly public movie screenings for 50 cents a ticket as well as concerts and other cultural events....
Can Art Save The World? A Conference Debates
“We actually can be the place where discourse happens, where the dialogue about these issues surfaces,” she said. Museums are “safer places to do...
Survey: Most Canadians Got Their Audiobooks For Free In 2023
A recent survey about the reading habits of Canadians conducted by BookNet Canada, which collects and analyzes data about the Canadian book industry, found that a...
Yuval Sharon On Connecting Opera With Today
I’m not an advocate of doing in historically specific productions but look for this place of speculation that connects opera fundamentally with...
Google Is Paying Canadian Broadcasters $100M
Google has agreed to pay $100 million CAD a year — or about $73 million in U.S. dollars — to broadcasters and other news...
California Debates Making Google Pay For Showing News Stories
California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism...
Why Minor Annoyances Can Cost You More Than Big Things
These situations aren’t that bad, and so you don’t do anything about them, whether it be to take action or kickstart psychological processes to cope. - Psyche
Why Is Parthenon Marbles Repatriation So Compelling?
All repatriation cases matter greatly to those involved, but that of the Parthenon marbles has become famous far beyond the dispute between the key...
Latin-American Literature Doesn’t Really Exist
What I’m trying to say is that, if one thinks about it for a moment, it becomes clear that “Latin America” does not exist...
The Impoverishment Of Critics
Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it can’t not. Reading, writing, and...
AI Is Going To Change Music Forever
Just as The Bomb reshaped all of warfare, we’ve reached the point where AI is going to reshape all of music. - Persuasion
Pirates: The Story Of How Music Got To Be Free
Starting back in the 1980s, an illegal demimonde of teens began. Their initial goal was to strip the copyright protections off video games. By...
Houston’s Stages Theatre Picks A New Leader
When he moves to Houston in August to take on that role, he'll become one of the first Black men to lead a major...
Large Study: Internet Might Be Good For Our Wellbeing
We might look for clues in a new global study from Oxford University that spanned 16 years and surveyed 2.4 million people. The findings suggest that...
Naples Announces New Mega-Museum As Part Of Massive Cultural Investment
Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, himself a Neapolitan, has showered funds on the ambitious cultural heritage projects in his hometown. “Naples is a global...
Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Says It Will Try To Recontextualize Controversial Statue
The museum announced last week a major effort to fight against the image created by the exhibit. As part of an ongoing series, the museum will invite...
Donald Duck Turns 90. Here’s How He’s Changed
By 1940, Walt Disney himself referred to Donald Duck as “the Gable of our stable” – pairing Donald’s popularity with the Hollywood superstar Clark Gable, the...