Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Will The Ginormous George Lucas Museum Ever Be Done? Here’s Where It’s At
Even in the haze of construction, a seemingly endless swirl of workers, cranes and girders, the enormous scope of the project is coming into...
Museums Worldwide Are Reclassifying Ukrainian Art
In reference to the recent relabeling process, the Met told CNN in a statement that the institution, "continually researches and examines objects in its...
Is Lithuania The New Capital Of Performance Art?
“We have a history of performance art going back to the 1970s. These were often illegal actions in public spaces only seen by maybe...
Your Backstory Might Be Wrong. That’s A Problem
The evolutionary history of our species negates and overturns all previous cosmologies. Ever since Darwin, it seems most fiction writers have pretended not to...
Wheelchair Dance Company Hits The Road
“A lot of the time when I’m working, I come up against a lot of imposed judgements of ‘you’re a wheelchair-user so you can...
After The Success Of This HBO Series, Transmedia Will Never Be The Same
There are currently upwards of 60 game-based productions in development, from a new Super Mario Bros. movie to a God of War adaptation for Amazon, and analyst firms like...
AI Voices Are Starting To Take Over Reading Audiobooks
Tech companies including Apple and Google have been working on AI audiobook narration for a while now. In 2022, Google rolled out its services to publishers...
How “Free Markets” Got Confused With Freedom
The so-called “Tripod of Freedom” — which positions free enterprise, along with civil liberties and democracy, as “one of the three great elements” in...
Closer And Closer: An Endless Loop Of Misinformation
Each day is bringing us a little bit closer to a kind of information-sphere disaster, in which bad actors weaponize large language models, distributing...
How Is Streaming Affecting How We Interact With Music?
Worries about music today ignore every development in the transmission of music in the past. “I mean, when recorded music first came out, people...
Oscars: A culture Of Scandals Is Built In
Every year it's something. But then, that's built into the culture, and it helps the Academy thrive... - CBC
UK Prime Minister Says Parthenon Marbles Won’t Be Returned
“We share their treasures with the world, and the world comes to the UK to see them. The collection of the British Museum is protected by...
Oscars By The Numbers – Our Yardsticks Of Diversity
By default events like the Oscars have come to serve as a primary yardstick of representational gains. Hence our joyless new annual award-season tradition: the scrutiny...
The Ugly Truth About Gatekeepers
Nowadays the majority of the art world gatekeepers are ever more myopic, risk averse and conformist, daring only to support what is “hot”...
Pritzker-Winner David Chipperfield’s Unconventional Attitude On Buildings
As opposed to the “starchitect” impulse to create something iconic and instantly recognisable – to stamp their mark on a place – architecture, for...
The End Of Critical Theory?
All in all, it is not as clear as it once seemed how the project of critical theory maps onto the practical politics—institutional and...
The Speculative Future Of TV
ATSC 3.0 is to broadcast television what 5G was to mobile a few years ago: a mixture of buzzwords and real innovation, something that’s...
For The First Time In Decades Vinyl Records Outsell CDs
Vinyl revenue grew 17% and topped $1.2 billion last year, making up nearly three-quarters of the revenue brought in by physical music. At the...
An Indiana University Wants To Sell Its Valuable Museum Art To Pay For Renovating...
Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the...
Protect Children From Books? How Does That Make Sense?
The anxiety about what kids are reading inevitably bleeds into fear about what else they’re doing—the trope of the sexy librarian, ever about to...
Canada Looking At Canadian Content Rules For Streaming
Algorithms are not neutral: they train us as much as we train them. Using them to promote local music or Canadian music may inspire a...
Scottish Government Steps In To Save Youth Orchestras
To combat the councils decisions, four MSPs wrote to the Scottish government, asking them to intervene and save the music programmes. Over the weekend,...
Report: Where Black American Millennials Get Their News
Social media plays a large role in the news habits of all Millennials and Gen Z, as shown in our first report on these generations....
YouTube Has Created A Huge Foreign-Language-Dubbing Industry
“If you take the top 10,000 YouTube videos by performance and dub them in 20-plus languages, you could easily unlock an additional half a...
Peeling Back The Curtain Of The Happiness-Industrial Complex
Whatever is being sold by the happiness experts, we imagine, cannot really be happiness, but can only bear a relationship to it even more...
