Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Dawn Of AI: Time For A Reset For Humanity
The technocultural norms and habits that have seized us during the triple revolution of the internet, smartphones, and the social web are themselves in...
McNulty: Broadway’s MVP This Year? The Suffering Audience
Attention must be paid to the core audience that has stuck it out and been filling these doddering old venues with their seasoned laughter...
Is This What America Looks Like In A Cultural Collapse?
In the past 50 years, despite overall economic growth, the quality of life for most Americans has declined. The wealthy have become wealthier, while...
Photographer Who Won The Warhol Copyright Case Goes After Another Artist
“You did not ask for my permission to copy my photo and I am ‘not laughing.’ Please do not force me to ask Instagram...
Bumpy Ride: Six Flags Upgrades Parks As Attendance At Amusement Parks Plunges
Last year, when the average price of admission rose to $35.99 from $28.73, many customers—already battered by the highest level of inflation in decades—decided...
In Praise Of The Movie Matinee
These showings have numerous advantages over their evening counterparts. The tickets are typically cheaper, for one. Daytime movie audiences also tend to be more...
The Problem With A Picasso Show That’s Problematic
So far as it has an argument it goes like this: Pablo Picasso was an important artist. He was also something of a jerk...
Ian Bostridge On The Evolving Plain Of Music
Questioning is built into the classical music tradition; and interpreting this complex music that we have inherited means negotiating between the preoccupations of the...
Is Mexican Music Going Global?
In the streaming era, regional Mexican music has become increasingly popular beyond those borders, thanks to a new generation of artists eager to collaborate...
What’s Lost When Movie Theatres Upgrade
Comfort has taken priority over connection. - The Wall Street Journal
Life After The Master: A Steven Sondheim Protege
“We did this workshop,” Foley told me. “And he came to see it, and . . . he did not like it. It was a really awful...
The Pseudoscience Of Extending Our Lives
Most of us want to live as long as possible but would like to avoid the deterioration of aging. So it’s only natural that...
In India Chatbots Are Answering Questions As Gods
At least five GitaGPTs have sprung up between January and March this year, with more on the way. Experts have warned that chatbots being allowed...
The Difference Between Novels And Short Stories? More Than Just Length
The short story has, from the beginning, been a thoroughly modern form: Originally published in newspapers and magazines and consumed on railroads and omnibuses,...
Why Was “Succession” So Good? Theatre Pros
Succession comes by its theater DNA honestly. A number of its writers are working playwrights, with impressive produced work under their belts, and executive producer Frank...
David Brooks: The “Merit” System We Built For Universities Is Working Against Us
It’s ridiculous that we’ve built a system that overvalues the sort of technocratic skills these universities cultivate and undervalues the social and moral skills...
Book Banning Comes To Newtown, CT… And Fails
Republicans on the Newtown Board of Education sought to have Flamer by Mike Curato and Blankets by Craig Thompson removed from the local high school library as if...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival In Crisis: Appoints New Leader, Says It Needs To Raise $7.3...
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced Thursday that former tech executive Tyler Hokama has been appointed the company’s interim executive director, and at the same...
How The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Will Stunt Creativity
Our remix culture has democratized art by letting anyone with a phone create new art from the pieces of previous works. The Supreme Court’s decision “stymies...
Sotheby’s Buys Whitney Museum’s Breuer Building
Designed by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer, the building has had its share of occupants since it was erected. It was first the third home to...
Amnesia After Taylor Swift Concerts? Yes, It’s A Thing
From out-of-body experiences to entering a dream-like state, Swift's fans - or Swifties as they prefer to be known - have taken to social...
Toronto’s Fringe Festival Is In Trouble
Behind the scenes, Toronto’s largest theatre festival was struggling. Audience attendance fell below expectations. Fundraising efforts came up short. All that while the festival...
Why The Newsroom Needed(s) To Change
The decline of the newsroom itself is not the same thing as the decline of media, and conflating the two obscures how the newsroom...
Probing The Life (And Deaths) Of Social Media Networks And What Makes Them Work...
In a world where social networks abound, what leads people to try to find new places to hide out, instead of sticking with the...
The Battle (And Calculations) Over Banning TikTok
The president has his national-security advisers, who are expressing concern about what China could do with a technology in the pockets of 150 million...
