Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Ballet Helped Shape My Medical Career
When I scrubbed in for my first surgery, it felt strangely familiar—there was music playing, overhead lights shining, and a team working in synchrony,...
What 75 Years Of Studies Tell Us About How To Be Happy
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period." - The New York...
What Happened To Watching Movies? They Seem Like Background Activities Now
Now, “a movie” can be a meme or an endurance contest or just background wallpaper; if it’s playing on your TV, it could easily...
MTT’s Final Concert
With a pioneering sense of eclecticism, he connected the dots between John Cage and James Brown, between Mahler and MTT’s famous grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, a...
Apple Made A Big Investment In Hollywood. How’s It Going?
Apple TV+ “has become a must-see destination” and posted record viewership in the quarter. Some have compared it to HBO — before Warner Bros....
How TicketMaster Swallowed Live Music
When you don’t get what you want, you tend to look for someone to blame. That someone is usually Ticketmaster. The company, which merged with...
25 Highlights Of Tate Modern’s 25 Years
When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. - The Guardian
A Movie Box Office Rebound?
The rebound started with The Minecraft Movie, spilled into Sinners and moves into Thunderbolts this weekend. - Deadline
Reviving Intellectual History
"I do think intellectual history has been revitalized but primarily outside the confines of the academy. Of course, there are plenty of great intellectual...
How The LA Fires Decimated The City’s Music Scene
Three months on, the city’s own music community is still coming to terms with a fresh, complex lived reality. Not just the notable performing...
How AI Is Making It Possible To Connect With Audience Individually
AI is making it possible to focus on customers as individuals and craft more personally relevant experiences. “We’ve got to get out from behind...
When Technology Does Everything Better Than Humans, Then What?
AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers and decision-makers, but...
The AI Jobs Crisis Is Here Now In Creative Fields
Almost every professional artist or illustrator I meet tells me they have lost clients and gigs to firms that have turned to AI instead...
They Shot Their Movie In A Week For $7,000. Now The Hard Part: Getting...
It’s a challenge to make a film like “Burt”— and quite another to bring such a handmade film to audiences. In 2024, Burke went...
Judge Blocks Shutdown Of Institute Of Museum And Library Services
The news hardly comes as a surprise, given the judge’s inclination to rule against the IMLS shutdown. The temporary restraining order was issued just days...
The “X” Factor Of City Ballet’s Roman Mejia
Mejia is an airborne dancer whose exuberance shines in joyful Balanchine ballets like “Stars and Stripes,” “Rubies” and “Western Symphony.” But his repertoire, especially...
Ahem… Do We Need More Male Novelists?
Are male novelists actually in decline? Some metrics certainly say so: of all the writers to appear on the weekly Sunday Times bestseller lists...
Why Universities Deserve Special Standing In Our Culture
It is especially ironic that, just as we began the countdown to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with commemorations at Lexington...
Visionary Director Pierre Audi, 67
Pierre Audi, the stage director and impresario whose transformation of a derelict London lecture hall into the cutting-edge Almeida Theater was the opening act in a...
Art Institute Of Chicago Director On Leave After Airplane Incident
During the incident, which occurred on April 18, police were called to United Airlines flight 953 after it landed in Munich from Chicago, following...
Meta’s New AI Chatbot Will Accompany You To Movie Theatres. Is This A Good...
The chatbot, which Meta has reportedly claimed will “get audiences back in theaters,” works by sending moviegoers trivia, quips, and questions about the movie, according to the New...
The Flood Of Fakes Has Finally Broken My Mind!
Fake images didn’t really bother me until I started looking at them with my kids. They wanted pictures of baby animals; at some point,...
Today’s Film And TV Projects Have Embraced Diversity in Story Telling. But…
In recent years, there have been increasing creative efforts to fill these historical gaps. This suggests there is a willingness, at least in some...
David Graeber’s Rogue Anthropologies
He found a way to be both a public intellectual and an academic, a scholar with the fervor of the preacher and a pundit...
Study: Handwriting Boosts Early Reading Skills In Students
“As children write less and less by hand, we wanted to explore the impact of this on alphabetic and orthographic skills. In other words,...
