Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Colorado Museum To Close American Indian Exhibit
The exhibit was first established in 1978, in collaboration with Indigenous representatives. A description of the exhibit on the museum’s website says visitors could see “authentic...
Are America’s Regional Theatres Reaching The End Of Their Useful Lives?
It is certainly not a popular theory, but it’s quite possible that, at this moment, America’s cultural venues may be larger than needed. Now...
How AI Could Improve The Ways We Work
There’s a lot of potential for workers to step outside of the box with the assistance of generative AI, whether it’s improving their daily...
Report: Documenting How Artists Are Getting Screwed By Museums And Galleries
Data gathered from more than 100 contributors outlines a status quo in which artists are expected to work for low (or no) money, even...
Using AI And Bumping Up Against The Edges Of Reality
Where do real memories end and generative AI begin? It’s a question for the AI era, where our holy photos merge with holey memories,...
I Let AI Make All My Decisions For Three Days. Here’s What Happened
I had asked the chatbot to make the choice for me, and it had said that I should prioritize “valuable experiences” that contribute to...
To What Extent Do Our Secrets Define Us?
If a secret really is something I tell only myself, is there something here that is mine and mine alone, that survives as my true ‘self’,...
The Best Cannes Festival In Years
It’s one of the best years in recent memory for Cannes, which seemed revitalized as it finally shook off the hangover of the pandemic....
How To Create Data-Driven Culture
As we expected, ambassadors and others across the bank began working together, making measurements, targeting data cleanups, and eliminating root causes of error. Then,...
How Electric Tech Is Changing Car Design
Inside, electric car dashboards often light up like spaceships as part of a bid to communicate intelligence rather than aggression. - Dezeen
The Employed Workers Who Don’t Really Work
Reporting for this story, I spoke with multiple people who are essentially funemployed, or at least one meaning of it, who sit around at...
How President Erdogan Used Turkish Culture To Support His Power
If the mark of 21st-century politics is the ascendancy of culture and identity over economics and class, it could be said to have been...
Dancing Across (Or Inside?) The Blockchain
Catherine and Ti have devised a coding language by which sequences of human movements are translated into what they call choreographic hashes—code that determines...
How Geena Davis Is Helping To Overcome Hollywood’s Diversity Imbalances
Even when braced for it, the institute’s findings are staggering: In the 101 top-grossing G-rated films from 1990 to 2005, just 28 percent of...
Rethinking Celebrity Casting For The Theatre
The nature of celebrity has changed. Social media has made us as interested in people’s kitchens as we are in their performances on TV. We...
Facts Don’t Win Arguments. But Propaganda?
Numerous studies have shown that, due to a myriad of cognitive biases such as belief perseverance and confirmation bias, facts unfortunately do not change people’s...
Mozart — The Eloquent Rebel
In an often-cited letter to his father, he wrote that his piano concertos offered a happy medium between the easy and the difficult. There...
The Dicing Up Of Movies — A New Way To Consume Media
Mysterious movie-clip accounts, by editing films such as 12 Feet Deep into multipart sagas that anyone can watch on their phone, have offered TikTok users the...
Study Of Video Games: Male Characters Speak Twice As Much As Female Characters
Our analysis, published in the Royal Society Open Science today studied over 13,000 video game characters and found that twice as much dialogue is given to...
How The 1990s Changed America
New scholarship indicates that the end of the Cold War did not so much settle history’s debates as it did undermine the structuring framework...
Researchers Are Burning Out. It’s The Culture
The recent studies, which have collectively surveyed tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, suggest that scientists’ mental-health struggles are a direct result of a...
The Arts: We’re Being Bored To Death
After a century or so, as Dave Hickey explains, in which it had evaded institutional control—a century of Parisian bohemians, modernist vagabonds, and visionary...
Adding Live Theatre To Movies Is A Hit In Western Australia
Evidently, this new blend of live theatre and film may be just what the cinema industry needs to help fight back against at-home streaming...
Why The US Needs Its Own Bookfair
The U.S. is the biggest English-language publishing market it the world, yet it’s one of the few large countries without an industrywide conference. - Publishers...
Susan Sontag’s Complicated View Of Women
The essays in “On Women” make clear that, for Sontag, the oppression of women presented an aesthetic and narrative problem as well as a...
