Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Logic Won’t Save You
Except for a few special cases, logic can’t tell you whether the premises or conclusion of an argument are true. - Aeon
National Book Awards Loses Sponsors Over Speech Fears
Rumors that authors would take a stand regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict during the ceremony were flying in the days leading up to the event,...
Vandal Attacks National Gallery In DC
In an email, National Gallery spokesperson Anabeth Guthrie said a member of the climate activist group Declare Emergency vandalized a wall in the West...
OMG – Did Streaming Just Turn Into Cable TV?
You need to take a hard look at whether these offers are really a bargain or if this is the slippery slope to paying...
The “Robin Hood” Fund Embedded In The New Actors Contract With Studios
SAG president Fran Drescher wanted a fund over which SAG had broad discretion to redistribute money among its members. “She wanted her Robin Hood...
Problematic: Dismissing Ideas By Calling Them “Problematic”
In ordinary conversation, social media, and even mass-media and academic publications it has now become routine to come across the claim that such and...
South Coast Repertory Theatre Loses Its Leader After 44 Years
Paula Tomei is SCR’s first and only managing director, and she steered the Tony-winning institution through many years of growth, transformation and challenges. During...
Want To Know More About Dance? Here Are The Year’s Best Dance Books
Wendy Perron (and friends) take a look at the year's best dance books. - Wendy Perron
Disturbing Trend: Movies That Get Completed But Not Released
Films, it seems, are no longer being seen as works of art – or even as pieces of entertainment. They are being seen as...
Statistical Analysis: What The Largest Dance Companies In America Look Like
In the Largest 50 contemporary and modern companies, there are 30 female artistic directors (56%) and 24 male artistic directors (44%). Whereas, the Largest 50 ballet companies, include...
Can America’s Endangered Post-Modernist Buildings Be Saved?
Significant Postmodern buildings like the Abrams House in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego have already been demolished. Other beloved/reviled examples now await their...
Sarah Bernstein Wins Canada’s $100K Giller Prize
In a statement, the jury said: "The modernist experiment continues to burn incandescently in Sarah Bernstein's slim novel, Study for Obedience. Bernstein asks the indelible question:...
Study: Stereotypes Might Not Influence Us As Much As We Thought
It suggests that the influence that stereotypes can have on spontaneous impressions may not be as strong as previously thought, at least not when...
Humanities In Crisis? Not Really What You Think
More real for the humanities than any “crisis” within is that they, along with the universities that house them, are repeatedly subject to and...
Knight Foundation Chooses A New President
In her new role, Wadsworth, 50, will oversee a $2.6 billion foundation that gives millions of dollars in grants each year to arts, journalism...
The Hollywood Actors Contract: What’s In It
Criticism is already bubbling up from a variety of quarters that the guild negotiating committee didn’t push hard enough with the CEO Gang of...
The Vegas Sphere Is Astonishing. But Is It Just A Novelty?
These attractions tend to lean heavily on novelty, and their shelf life can be very short — the 2021 flurry of immersive Van Gogh shows already...
SuperAgent Andrew Wylie And Defining The Elite
“I thought, Well, I wonder if you can build a business based exclusively on what you want to read,” he says, understatedly. “That led...
James Burrows On How TV Sitcoms Have Changed
“I think it is niche television now because you don't have to get the rating that you got when there were only three networks...
A Tale Of Two Very Different Ancient Romes
In one, painted by the male elite, Rome under the emperor becomes a nightmare vision of a world turned topsy-turvy. In the other, articulated...
Why Are We Still Lonely When We Have Loving Friends And Family?
Loneliness, it seems, is an existential hazard, something to which human beings are always vulnerable – and not just when they are alone. -...
Progress On Mapping The Brain Has Been Painstaking. AI Might Change That
Guided by connectomic and other data to optimize thousands or even billions of parameters, machine-learning models could be trained to produce neural-network behaviour that...
How Barbra Streisand Redefined Diva
As a diva, Streisand has consistently defied instructions not to do something by doubling up her efforts. For example, at the start of her...
A Remarkable Life Of Service: DC Schools’ Music Man Lyn McLain, 95
He brought classical music into the lives of tens of thousands of young people and was credited with diversifying the ranks of symphony orchestras...
How Black Musicians Are Reclaiming Folk Genres
Today Black folk performers have reached a critical mass and level of exposure not seen since the early decades of the 20th century, when...
