Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Australian Arts Organizations Struggle With Inflation In Costs
Unfortunately, it’s not only large-scale music festivals that are copping severe losses, as many other vital players within the performing arts are battling rising...
How Your Sense Of Time Impacts Your Creativity
When it comes to how you would ideally plan your days, the research suggests that people differ, with some more drawn to clock time...
What Does Culture Look Like Without Nightlife?
Last year, 125 grassroots music venues closed permanently and 1,293 pubs shut their doors across Britain. According to the Night Time Industries Association, more than 3,000 pubs, clubs...
Mind Blown: The Vegas Sphere As Experience
I don’t know whether the Sphere is the future of live music—it’s very expensive, both to build and attend, and the venue’s path to...
What Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway Right Now
The Tony nominations, announced in New York on Tuesday morning, paint a portrait of another year of transition on Broadway. - Los Angeles Times
Art Isn’t Supposed To Be Safe
Here on my screen was the distillation of a peculiar American illness: namely, that we have a profound and dangerous inclination to confuse art...
Gordon Cox: Ten Takeaways From This Year’s Tony Nominations
With a season packed to the brim with late openers vying for awards attention, the 2024 Tony nominations were full of unexpected twists and turns. Here...
Your TV Is Spying On You
Back in the day, a TV was a TV, a commercial was a commercial, and a computer was a computer. They have now been...
Marrying Arts And Tech In The Building So They Can Feed Off One Another
At the new gateway to the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology the 180,000-square-foot Student Hall for Exploration and Development offers views into...
What’s The Ideal Length Of A Movie?
According to Talker Research (formerly OnePoll US), an online survey conducted in April with 2,000 Americans concluded that respondents opted for 92 minutes as...
St. Lawrence String Quartet To Call It Quits
After 34 renowned seasons and acclaim around the world, the SLSQ will disband as an ensemble this year, but its members will remain active...
Congress Has Mishandled TikTok
It’s quite fair to worry, as Congress does, that TikTok’s mass collection of personal data can pose a threat to our data. Yet Meta,...
Is Art Therapy?
In the same way that a run of the mill Netflix film tells us little about the human experience, the therapeutic language saturating contemporary...
Menand: Academic Freedom Under Attack
What kind of right is the right to academic freedom? Is it a legal right or a moral one? This question, long a subject...
Why Bands Can’t Make Money By Touring
“A headline tour usually comes out with a deficit. The only thing that we ever make any kind of profit on is festivals, because...
What’s Wrong With “Mid” TV
I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current...
Can Improv Make A Comeback?
The pandemic hurt every live art, but arguably none more than improv. Not only did struggles force the sale of three of its biggest...
Time To Retire The Word “User” In Referring To Web Users?
The original use of “user” can be traced back to the mainframe computer days of the 1950s. - MIT Technology Review
How Music Therapy Is Helping Homeless Kids Process Life
“Music provides an opportunity for people to process trauma in a different mode of expression.” - The New York Times
2024 Presidential Candidates: Which Is Better For The Arts?
We have some indications of how the arts and culture will fare under each president because, for the first time, we have two candidates...
Repairing Musical Instruments That Have Been Damaged In War
Some instruments needed to be treated rather like field dressings for soldiers. - The Strad
Information Overload Is Nothing New. We’ve Long Struggled With It
Kings, popes, and doges all found themselves gasping for air under a deluge of memorandums and correspondence. Philip II of Spain was frequently driven...
Why Reading Was Intended To Be Done Out Loud
Until approximately the tenth century, when the practice of silent reading expanded thanks to the invention of punctuation, reading was synonymous with reading aloud. Silent reading was...
Is AI Ruining Facebook?
The Meta AI experience has so far been a spam-filled one. Nowhere is that clearer than on Instagram where the search function, once a...
Report On Misogyny In The UK Music Industry Is Rejected
The report was widely heralded as a turning point. Finally, the boys’ club of the music industry was laid bare. But on Friday, April 19,...