Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Canadians Want To Promote Canadian Content. Problem: What Is Canadian Content?
Nobody seems happy. The way the issue splits along political lines feels so incoherent, it’s almost arbitrary. - The Walrus
Public Libraries Have Become… Social Work Agencies?
Vicky Varga, a twenty-four-year veteran of Edmonton Public Library, described how the city had moved toward fully integrating social work into the activities of...
Satire Seems To Be Dead (For Now)
As the world became almost unfathomably strange, many people reacted by demanding seriousness; social and political critics understandably turned very sober. And this too...
In The Age Of AI, Form Seems To Be Making A Comeback
AI-driven image-making—far from heralding some future post-human development—appears to be reviving long-dormant visual strategies that dominated the arts, and art theories, of the past....
The Enduring Allure Of Concert Halls That Make An Architectural Splash
Sydney cemented the idea that grandiose political and architectural ambitions — some would say hubris — can merit the expenditure of much larger sums...
Taliban Sell Tickets To Bamiyan Buddha Site They Destroyed In 2001
With the group now back in power, Bamian holds new symbolic and economic importance to the cash-strapped region: Officials see the Buddha remnants as...
How The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Found Itself In A Crisis
“We've been basically in a recovery mode since the 2020-21 pandemic. And I think that's the real reason why things have been stressed more....
Liverpool Vies To Be New Home Of English National Opera. Process Is “Complicated,” Says...
In a letter to Culture Minister Lord Parkinson, Mr Rotheram and Liverpool City Council leader Liam Robinson said it would be "an honour" to...
Streaming Companies Spent 100s Of Millions Of Dollars On Content. Worth It?
In this country, nothing indicates cultural importance more than cash, and seeing this much of it handed out to creators of television said as...
David Remnick Remembers Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-two, may have been the most important book editor of his time. Caro was just...
Our Metaphors For Language Shape How We Think
For example, if we talk about “wasting” or “saving” time, we treat time as if it were a commodity. Or, if we say that...
What Failure Can And Cannot Do For You
In a culture that demands overcoming against all odds, even failure has been commodified by the American self-help industrial complex: rebranded not as a...
What Libraries Are Becoming
Libraries were once places to access books. They are now places to access everything? The last place to access anything? As the social safety...
Asian Movie Theatre Box Office Is Down. So They’re Being Inventive
With movie ticket sales still lagging behind pre-pandemic highs, multiplex operators across Asia have begun deploying unconventional strategies to generate excitement and attract people back to...
California Mandated Ambitious Arts Education For Students. Why Isn’t It Working?
“It can't be an after-school program only because that builds inequitable access. Art needs to be consistent in terms of hands-on experience, as well...
How Hadid Architects Are Using AI To Design Better Buildings
Mr. Blum said ZHAI had a computer tool that, in 27 hours, could come up with 100,000 designs for a building’s interior; an architect...
17 Music Publishers Sue Twitter For $250 Million
According to the publishers, Musk's company allows users to share music on the platform without permission from the copyright holders. - Mashable
Legendary Editor Robert Gottlieb, 92
For three decades at the publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Knopf, he turned hundreds of manuscripts into well-received books, many of which sold...
ABT Chief Exec Suddenly Quits After 17 Months
Janet Rollé’s hiring was announced with much fanfare: She had made a name in the entertainment industry, having served as the general manager of Parkwood Entertainment,...
Pandering: What Good Does Elizabeth Gilbert Delaying Her Book Do?
Some writers invite haters and court controversy; Gilbert writes books that want to be loved. Being accused of complicity with a regime accused of...
The New Piracy: Movies And TV Chopped Into Tiny Pieces On TikTok
Those millions of people are contributing to the billions of views on movies and films chopped up to fit the app's restrictive post limits,...
Linguists Identify A New English Dialect Emerging In South Florida
This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish. - The Conversation
New Renzo Piano-Designed Istanbul Modern Opens
The official opening of the museum this month will come just weeks after the re-election of a president under whose leadership the media has been...
Paul McCartney Says John Lennon Song Finished With Assistance Of AI
The turning point came with Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, where dialogue editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise the Beatles' voices...
Surveys Say People Feel Morality Is In Decline. But Then They’ve Always Said So…
A big collection of archival data, going back all the way to 1949, suggests people believe morality is declining. People are asked questions like,...
