Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Physical Activity Is Good For Fitness. It’s Even Better For Creativity
Often, when we hear about the benefits of physical activity, researchers are really referring to the benefits of fitness – the product of regular and repeated...
Report: What Spotify Paid Musicians Last Year
According to the data, 1,250 artists generated over $1 million each in recording and publishing royalties in 2023; 11,600 generated over $100,000 and 66,000...
Pianist Maurizio Pollini, 82
During a flourishing international career spanning more than six decades, Mr. Pollini was steadily ranked among those rare musicians to whom other musicians paid...
Indigenous Theatre Blooming Across Canada
The Indigenous theatre community has grown to sold out shows being produced across the country. This spring alone, stages in Montreal, Whitehorse, Ottawa, Saskatoon,...
What We’re Starting To Understand About Aging
While we think of our genes as being set from birth, DNA does accumulate changes over the years. Sometimes errors are introduced when a...
People Hate The Idea Of Car-Free Cities Until They Live In One
Going car-free is a lot harder than it seems. Not only has it led to politicians and urban planners facing death threats and being...
Report: Americans Are Spending $61/Month On Streaming. Up 27 Percent In A Year
Americans are spending 27% more on streaming than they did last year, up from $48. That $13 increase could have something to do with Netflix and Max raising prices...
A First: Man Convicted Of Streaming Music Fraud
A Danish man has been sentenced to prison in a “historic” case after being found guilty of fraudulently profiting from royalties on hundreds of...
Cambridge University Axes Its Co-Ed Choir. What’s At Stake:
“We are devastated by this decision, which we believe is a fundamentally regressive move for the college, the choral community in Cambridge, and the...
Is UK Arts Funder’s Analysis Of Opera’s Challenges Right?
The report points out – with some perspicacity – that there is a view throughout the industry that whilst opera is an expensive art...
Australian Report Questions Payments To Academic Publishers
The Australia Institute report, released on Wednesday, questioned if more public money should be used for research and education instead of being directed to international...
The San Diego Museum Is Selling Buildings. What About The Art?
The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate, aimed at artists and audiences in the border...
COVID Was Supposed To Spark A City Doom Loop. Instead, They’ve Bounced Back
Twenty-five of America’s 26 largest downtowns have more residents today than they did on the eve of the pandemic. Meanwhile, both violent and property crime plummeted...
Cast Off Your Streaming! Free Blockbuster Now!
The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction and eventually, more than 200 other community boxes had opened from Louisiana to Canada and even Britain...
Do We Live In An Age Of Cultural Stagnation?
Cast your eyes across this burgeoning literature of cultural stagnation—now so voluminous it counts as an authentic subgenre in its own right—and you won’t...
This Musician Has Been Streamed 15 Billion Times Under Fake Artist Accounts On Spotify
Johan Röhr is behind over 2,700 songs that have been released under various fake artist names on Spotify. His music across all of these pseudonymous artist accounts...
What Does It Mean To Be An Artist In The Era Of Everyone-Has-A-Camera-At-All-Times?
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what...
End Of An Era: Gannett Newspapers Ends Relationship With AP Wire
The news ends a deep and decades-long relationship between one of the world’s largest news organizations and one of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers....
Cities Were Supposed To Be The Future. In The 21st Century They’ve Become A...
Never is it discussed that a cordoned-off, highly policed, highly regulated urban fabric of the kind that exists in every metropolitan center in the...
Justice Department Sues Apple Over Antitrust
In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their...
American Youth Symphony Shuts Down
The American Youth Symphony, which shut down on Friday, is — or rather was — one of the few large national organizations involved in the vital transition...
Reinventing The Concert Subscription
"Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay...
Our Constant Entertainment Culture Has Trapped Us In The Metaverse
Dystopias often share a common feature: Amusement, in their skewed worlds, becomes a means of captivity rather than escape. - The Atlantic
Is China’s Love Affair With The Piano Waning?
Piano lessons for children were all the rage not too many years ago, but that trend seems to have withered, while lessons in traditional...
And Now… The Scary Immersive Theatre Experience
"A scared-sounding young man told me that there was a monster in his closet. Obviously, I was supposed to tell him to open the...