Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Have Our Devices Dulled Our Sensory Experiences?
"The way we consume such content, by swiping idly on a glass screen, stands in stark contrast with the content of the content, the skillful manipulation...
Movie Theatre Box Office Has Surged This Year. So What Next?
“When we recognized that people want to go out, that they want to be treated with good service in a good theater with good...
The Obama Center: The Difference Between Libraries And Monuments
There is no question about its monumentality. It is at once colossal, haughty and ultimately inscrutable—as a great monument should be. The question is...
Why All The Conspiracy Movies Right Now?
Is this a trend? Are all these pictures related? Common sense, our trusted friend, tells us that life is random and arbitrary and that...
Last Remaining Chinese Theatre In America Seeks Emergency Funding
City records describe it as a 410-seat performing arts and film theater and the last remaining Chinese theater in any Chinatown in the United...
Study: Should News Organizations Label AI Use?
Audiences see journalism as a profession that requires specialized training and ethical integrity, making AI seem to some like a “cop out.” One said...
Why Writers Should Embrace AI
AI may well be terrible news for software engineers, but I think it’s an intriguing development for people who care about language and ideas...
An Expedition To Preserve The Sounds Of Church Organs
The show up at old churches in remote communities, preparing their solar-powered mobile studio, and recording instruments both humble and monumental, whose complex systems...
High Ticket Prices Are Keeping Fans Away From Concerts This Summer
Post Malone, Meghan Trainor and the Pussy Cat Dolls have all cancelled shows or entire tours in recent months — and while some of...
Art Galleries Are Not Okay
What went wrong? The short answer is: The art world expanded wildly, but the art market — the total dollar volume of art sales...
Humans Still Pick The Books
Good Morning,
The Book of the Month Club turns 100 this year, and its growth strategy is almost a provocation: human curation. The service has...
“Toy Story” Is One Of Disney’s Most Dependable Franchises
Analysts expect the fifth installment of Disney/Pixar’s “Toy Story” franchise will pull in at least $150 million in the U.S. and Canada, with some...
Debating The Color Of The National Mall Reflecting Pool
The Reflecting Pool now evokes the joy of a Green Bay Packers victory. Or a high-school prank. Or St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago.It most...
David Hockney Was Working Class. Artists From The Working Class Have A Much More...
Through policies and schemes, previously unheard-of opportunities for people of his background began to open up, without which he would not have become the...
What Literature Teaches Us About Neurodivergence
Far from being a modern phenomenon, neurodivergence has a long history. In other words, people whose ways of thinking, sensing or behaving differed from...
Ballmer And Bezos And Benioff: Mega-donors To The Obama Library
The foundation collected six donations of $50 million-plus, including one anonymous contributor. - Chicago Sun-Times
The Woman Trying To Rebuild Oakland’s Arts Program
Oakland currently allots its entire arts community only $300,000 in grants — in contrast to the combined $29 million that Grants for the Arts and...
The Meanings Of David Foster Wallace
The Bible warns that “all craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated.” American culture, perhaps in an effort to stave off potential embarrassment, often...
Director of Production, The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA)
The Director of Production provides executive-level strategic leadership, operational direction, and organizational oversight for all production and technical services across a complex, performing arts center.
The Philosophical Consequences Of Simulations
Students tend to have a low tolerance for fanciful hypotheses and abstruse thought experiments. All but the most philosophically inclined roll their eyes at...
New Brain Study Reveals How Bilingual People Process Language
When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance, bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are...
Some Dance Forms Are Deeply Culturally Coded. How Can They Be Reinterpreted In Contemporary...
Choreographic researcher and artist Nazira Yerbolkyzy is among a new generation of practitioners working to reframe this relationship by exploring how traditional movement philosophies...
Rex Reed Hated Everything
In my ongoing conversations with him, along with the despairingly pungent emails he regularly sent from his AOL address Rex seemed to interpret the...
Cincinnati Opera Launches Major New Opera Initiative
“Lalovavi” launches Cincinnati Opera’s Black Opera Project, a $6 million three-opera endeavor. The first of its kind, the project aims to tell Black American stories of...
Misty Copeland On Drive and Motivation
What people do not always see is the aspect of drive that is perhaps the hardest to name — the will to keep going...
