Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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,...
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...
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,...
Today’s Great Contemporary Literature Is About The Past
Over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place in American fiction: The novels recognized by major literary prizes have largely abandoned...
Surprise: Alan Cumming To Become Scottish Festival Director
The Pitlochry “theatre in the hills” is known for its unique ensemble and repertory practice: across the summer season actors appear in three or...
Much Beloved Dance Retreat Lost In California Forest Fires
Cohasset, a Butte County community atop a ridge north of Chico, is home to about 400 residents and the site of a 26-year-old annual...
Satellite TV Business Is In Dire Straits
The numbers bear out a dire situation for satellite TV. Just 13 million U.S. households subscribe to it, a decrease of about 15.3 percent...
Why The Traditional TV Business Is Tanking
While subscriber numbers are tanking, programmers prop up revenues by raising carriage fees for their channels—the aforementioned “higher contractual rates.” Instead of making TV...
Once-Lucrative Late Night Talk Shows Are Facing New Austerity
Late night, it appears, is now firmly in belt-tightening mode. Or as one veteran late night producer says, “there’s definitely a new reality when...
Why Is Children’s Experience Of Time Different From That Of Adults
"It's strange that we don't still really know the answers to questions like when do children have a proper distinction between the past and...
The Billionaire Composer And His Ability To Buy High-Profile Performers
The composer had seemingly appeared from nowhere. Now he was engaging the world’s best soloists to perform his music—compositions that some musicians and critics...
