Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How The Internet Has Changed How We Write (And Read)
Over the course of the last generation, the Internet has changed our common reading experience; now, as a teacher of creative nonfiction at the...
When American Government Encouraged Artists To Critique
Clear-eyed, truthful portrayals of American history and contemporary affairs have long been disfavored as beneficiaries of public funding — though the movement to strip...
Decline Of The British Museum?
Although the British Museum might have regarded itself as too big to fail, its false sense of exceptionalism has now jeopardized its future as an institution...
How The Harris Theatre (Now 20 Years Old) Changed Chicago Arts
During its two-decade existence, the 1,500-seat theater has become an essential downtown venue, with performances, rehearsals and other events taking place there an average...
What It Takes To Write A TV Show: That’s What The Strike Is About
“I fear a future in which they can only hire one writer. They’ll have an AI, you know, churn out a script based on...
Seattle Is In The Midst Of A Generational Change In Arts Leadership
In the last two years, ArtsFund has informally tracked at least 47 new hires or open positions at the senior leadership level among its...
Weston Sprott Talks About Racism In American Orchestras
“At the end of the day, whether you’re working in an orchestra or a hospital or a government institution, people are people. The various...
Acropolis Is The Latest To Restrict Visitors Because Of Over-Touristing
The new “Visitor Zones” program requires visitors to book a time slot through its online platform. On arrival, visitors will scan a QR code on...
Great Puzzle: Why Did Brandeis University Cut Its Highly-Regarded Music Ph.D Program?
Of 15 PhD-granting departments in Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the music department ranked as one of the best. It had the...
Woman Buys $4 Painting Because She Liked The Frame. Turns Out The Painting Is...
It quickly became clear that the simple frame was of much lesser value than the striking scene within, which was revealed to be by...
Using Numbers To Unlock Shakespeare’s Words
Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistics which uses computers to explore the use of words in huge collections of language. It can spot nuances...
Pondering The Thinking Machine
Few believe that LLMs are truly sentient, but some argue that they show signs of genuine intelligence and of having a conceptual understanding of...
Requiem For Another Theatre
Experimental work was the soul of the New Ohio, a producer and presenter that closed for good on Aug. 31. The publicity line has been that...
Granular Study Of Australian Arts Ecosystem Maps Economic Structures
Australia is the first nation to estimate sources of income and investment for the cultural and creative industries using a new classification system or...
The Webb Telescope Has Cosmologists Thinking Our Ideas About The Universe May Be Wrong
It’s not just that some of us believe we might have to rethink the standard model of cosmology; we might also have to change...
How Early Humans Learned To Count, A History
At first, our hominid ancestors probably did not count very high. Many body parts present themselves in pairs—arms, hands, eyes, ears, and so on—thereby...
An Online Library At The Heart Of A Battle Over AI And Copyright
For critics, Books3 isn’t a boon to society—instead, it’s emblematic of everything wrong with generative AI, a glaring example of how both the rights...
A Statistical Profile Of Artists In Ontario
The 81,800 professional artists who reside in Ontario account for 40% of the 202,900 artists in Canada. As a percentage of the overall labour...
Model Collapse? Spotify Is Desperate To Find New Ways To Charge Subscribers
The company is on the hunt for anything it can do to get users to pay up. After pouring billions into podcasts and audiobooks...
The Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum Has A Human Remains Problem
The Natural History Museum has at least 30,700 human bones and other body parts. Responding to The Post’s reporting, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch...
Research: Our Brains May Sort Memories By Practical Necessity
A new theory proposes the brain sorts memories by how likely they are to be useful as guides in the future. Memories of predictable...
Donald Runnicles Steps Down From Leading Berlin’s Deutsche Oper
Runnicles was appointed Music Director in 2007 and began his tenure in 2009. He extended his contract in 2016 and in 2020 extended it...
Aesthetics And The Dispassionate Observer
All of us experience aesthetic properties when we’re not in a condition to fully appreciate them because we are tired or distracted. Yet the...
How The TV Industry Was Broken By Streaming
Streaming provided an explosion of opportunity at first, but profits dried up along with the pool of potential subscribers. The dual strike is happening...
Writers Condemn Use Of Misleading Book Blurb Quotes On Jordan Peterson Book
On 15 August, prominent writers criticised the way their reviews had been quoted on the back cover of the paperback edition of Peterson’s book,...
