Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Do You Speak To Yourself? Is It Speech? In Words?
The philosopher Peter Carruthers, who has written a fair amount, and variously, about inner speech, has argued that inner speech may have specifically arisen...
Pittsburgh Ballet Set Attendance Records For 2023’s “Nutcracker.” Maybe It’s Time To Bring Back...
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre once had a live orchestra for all of its “Nutcracker” performances, but in an ugly move that still rankles local musicians,...
How TV Has Lost Its Way (Looking At You Netflix and HBO)
Eventually, TV’s contraction will yield a new Netflix, a new HBO, looking to exploit a desire for bold programming. In the meantime, this year’s...
How Algorithmic Curation Has (Is) Changing Culture
It homogenizes, and it silos. It’s the commons, but with gatekeepers. There’s never been anything like it! But it’s really just an extension of...
This Year’s World Monument Fund Preservation Projects
This year’s efforts include responses to last year’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and repairing damage in Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing war. - Artnet
Turns Out Louisa May Alcott Wrote Under Pseudonym
One of the pseudonyms is believed to be E. H. Gould, including a story about her house in Concord, Massachusetts, and a ghost story along...
The Doctor Musicians
Some reached the level where a career as either a professional musician or a doctor lay before them, before choosing the unquestionably sounder career...
Why Don’t Arts Organizations Pay More Attention To Their Digital Presence?
What is often the most engaged touch point with patrons is often also one of the most forgotten (and underinvested) areas in arts organizations. -...
Growing Number Of Countries Call For Limits On Streaming Platforms
The international campaign argues that the independence and viability of the global screen industry will remain under threat unless mandatory quotas for local content...
Why Is It So Difficult To Define Consciousness?
One problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is...
Algorithms Are Flattening Our Taste
"For us consumers, they are making us more passive just by feeding us so much stuff, by constantly recommending things that we are unlikely...
Conde Nast Is Folding Pitchfork Music Magazine Into GQ And Laying Off Staff
The move will result in an undetermined number of layoffs at the website, including the loss of Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel. - Daily Beast
How Video Game Music Is Changing Composers And Audiences
The impact of video game music has helped the music industry by creating a new audience for the classical orchestra. Popular concert cover albums of game...
Is Social Media The Fuel For Populists? (It’s Complicated)
Populists in particular latch on to social media today as a way to connect directly with people, bypassing restraints on their behavior that political...
Why Do Coffee Shops Look So Much The Same? Algorithms That Drive The Generic
Of course, there have been examples of such cultural globalisation going back as far as recorded civilisation. But the 21st-century generic cafes were remarkable...
Study: Which Is The World’s Prettiest Language?
On a scale of 1 to 100, all fell between 37 and 43, and most in a bulge between 39 and 42 (see chart...
Education Standardization Has Been A Disaster For Our Students
The majority of the country has now signed up to a standardized and rigid curriculum that treats overworked teachers as untrustworthy slackers who need...
A Small Arts Organization In Australia Loses Its Funding Prompting Questions About How Impact...
The decision raises questions about the financial health and sustainability of small to medium arts organisations, the assessment models for federal funding and the...
AI Unlocks Much Creativity — Also Much Potential Danger
The perils associated with AI are not abstract doom scenarios but are very real. They are intricately entwined with issues that impact all areas...
Even While Australian Arts Groups Are Struggling, Some Festivals Are Breaking Attendance Records. Why?
It’s not all doom and gloom. Many of our larger arts festivals are achieving record turnouts and box office highs, as ArtsHub discovered while surveying recent...
Today We Model Everything To Understand It. But There Are Limits
Modelling, in general, is now routine. We model everything, from elections to economics, from the climate to the coronavirus. Like model cars, model airplanes,...
What Taylor Swift Studies Teach; Madonna Studies Were First
Humanities professors, for their part, have already begun enlisting Swift as a silent partner. The organizer for the first international academic “Swiftposium,” to be...
The Reason Small Noises May Drive You Nuts
Trigger sounds might be triggering only when they’re made by your spouse, or when you’re already upset. The reason, according to new research, is...
Singer Jill Clayton, 82
Clayton established herself as an innovator in the 1970s and ’80s, sparring with instrumentalists in avant-garde settings and using electronics to alter and extend...
Does Our Language Really Shape Our World View?
Each language seemingly compels us to talk in a certain way and to see things from a particular perspective. But is this just an...
