Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What If Fact-Checking Just Makes People Dig In More To Their Misbeliefs?
In 2010, a political-science paper came out that made people worry. It suggested fact-checks might actually make people dig in their heels. What if...
The First-Ever Imax Ballet Features Paris Ballet
This is the first-ever Filmed for Imax ballet, and will be released exclusively in Imax locations globally on November 8. - Deadline
San Francisco Ballet Chooses A New Director
Branislav Henselmann, 49, most recently worked as the deputy general manager of arts, culture and community for the city of Vancouver, where he worked...
Culture Of De-Culturation: Is Our Culture Dying?
Olivier Roy believes that a range of abstract and apparently unstoppable forces—globalization, neoliberalism, postmodernism, individualism, secularism, the Internet, and so on—are undermining culture by...
Hollywood Animation Workers Say Their Jobs Are Under Threat
AI poses an obvious threat to both animators and writers who tell Deadline they are already suffering from a lack of jobs due to...
New Director Talks About How To Make The Overcrowded Uffizi Museum Enjoyable Again
Overcrowding makes for a miserable experience. Craning to see over rows of heads, one is jostled and swept along the galleries by such a...
Director Of Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum Steps Down After Staff Walkout
The walkout forced the museum to shut down for several days as its leaders and protesting employees discussed their demands, including having a “community...
The Deep Thinking Behind Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theorists appear earnestly committed to finding the truth, yet they are drawn to theories that often involve false and implausible claims. The psychology of...
Charge: Today’s Literary Magazines Engage In Widespread Censorship
Today’s culture of censorship and censure in literary magazines is stifling writers’ careers at their most vulnerable stage. Our experience at Crab Creek Review offers a...
Meta Makes Big Changes In How Instagram Will Work For Kids
“We decided to focus on what parents think because they know better what’s appropriate for their children than any tech company, any private company,...
Today’s AJ Newsletter Highlights
Good morning! Here are the AJ highlights for today. But first, two more stories to draw your attention to about the psychology of creativity....
London City Ballet Resurrected
Christopher Marney talked to regional theaters around Britain to make sure there was demand for ballet. (There is!) And he discovered that no one...
This Year’s Booker Prize Shortlist
Five of the six-strong shortlist are women, with authors from five countries represented, including the Netherlands for the first time. - BBC
Why Playing Is A Key To Creativity
Studies with creative writers and physicists reveal that about a fifth of their most important ideas occur when they’re mind-wandering, not focused on a...
The Two Biggest Threats: Climate Change And AI
I would argue that climate change and advanced AI are the only two risks where parts of their probability curve include singularities where change...
Why “Shogun” Became Such An Emmy-Winning Hit
The 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell inspired a similarly lauded mini-series in 1980. But the current telling is different in...
Why Do Some Composers Have Long Dry Spells?
Research on the creativity trajectories of eminent composers has revealed a number of factors that affect productivity over a career. These include the ages...
Sales Of Vinyl, CDs Keep Rising
The interesting thing is that the CD comeback seems to be largely the work of younger consumers. 43% of CD buyers are under 35....
The Bigger Role Music Is Playing In This Year’s Elections
As a scholar of music’s role in American politics and patriotism, I’ve never seen music assume as much electoral importance as it has in recent...
Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck In Our Heads?
Scientists don’t fully understand why earworms are so hard to shake. But certain songs are more likely than others to set up shop in our...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's highlights.
Where Will Sundance End Up? The Sundance Film Festival may be relocating, with Boulder, Cincinnati, and Salt Lake City...
This Week’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. This week we collected 126 stories from across the arts. Here are a few highlights. Full list below.
Cultural Tourism in Australia Becomes...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Some weeks events push along swarms of stories that illuminate long term trends. This week it's the collapsing of traditional TV. Long...
AI’s Robot Problem
I have come to believe it will take many, many thousands, maybe even millions of robots doing stuff in the real world to collect...
James Earl Jones: More Than The Voice
The worry is that our remembrance will whittle down Jones’s vast career—spanning sixty years and encompassing more than two hundred turns in the theatre,...
