Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Instagramization Of The Broadway Stage
These unmissable logos seem designed to engage audiences with the stage quite actively, creating an Instagrammable moment in a space where cameras are mostly...
Verdict In The Ed Sheeran Copyright Case
Sheeran had faced allegations that he copied parts of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” for his 2014 song, “Thinking Out Loud.” Heirs of...
Rethinking What Fatigue Is
“People often think about” fatigue “in terms of ‘oh, people are tired all the time.’ But fatigue is so much more pervasive and detrimental...
High Fashion: What Happens When Superfakes Are Indistinguishable From The Real Thing
My plunge into the world of fantastically realistic counterfeit purses — known as “superfakes” to vexed fashion houses and I.P. lawyers, or “unclockable reps”...
The Art Of Being Informed Post-Twitter
Until the past year’s insipid Musk-related shenanigans, the platform functioned as an efficient information delivery system that made it unique among its social media...
The Pressures Of Beauty Have Ever Been Thus
In her 1991 book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf argued that the standards of western female beauty were used as a weapon to stagnate the...
Hollywood’s Canadian Production Was Up 27 Percent In 2022
The number of foreign, mostly Hollywood, feature films that shot in Canada jumped from 141 in 2021 to 171 pictures last year, with total...
NYC’s Natural History Museum Adds A Wing For The Natural World
A mega-attraction devoted to the natural world may seem an odd fit for Manhattan, one of the most human-manipulated landscapes on earth. But in...
Washington Post Launches A TV Channel
On May 6, Washington Post Television will go live with continuous coverage of King Charles III’s coronation. - Washington Post
The Ancient Buildings Built To Withstand Earhquakes
The buildings stand free of any mortar or metal, which makes them more capable of shifting and flexing along with torques in the ground....
Will Viewers Even Notice The Writers Are On Strike?
The dramatically changed landscape that inspired the walkout — an industry that’s focus-shifted to streaming content — is also going to make it tougher...
The Essential Role Of Memory In Creativity
Over the past decade, our understanding of memory’s role in creativity has only grown. Researchers have linked false memories and forgetting to creative performance. And earlier this year,...
Art Of Tomorrow: The World’s Problems And The Role Of Art
What about the central question of whether the arts could be a way to confront some of the world’s many challenges? - The New...
Zaha Hadid Architects Say They Are Developing “Most” Of Their Projects With AI
Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI text-to-image generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to come up with design ideas for projects, studio principal Patrik Schumacher has revealed. - Dezeen
The Meaning That’s Lost As Handwriting Fades
"I have never subscribed to the strained idea that the characteristics of one’s handwriting provides a subtle indicator of one’s personality... but I do think there...
Opera About Drone Warfare Clarified After Online Criticism
Anger erupted online, with critics accusing Washington National Opera of serving as a mouthpiece for the defense industry. A think tank that advocates military...
Survey: Audience Shifting To Podcasts From YouTube And Streaming Music
Half of those surveyed said they were spending less time with YouTube in order to spend more time with podcasts. That is twice as...
Post-COVID: New Realities For The Performing Arts
“There is a massive shift there in terms of interests, what millennials consider relevant and find exciting. It will impact more than just what...
The Sheeran Copyright Case: A Threat To All Music
To complete the metaphor, the lawsuit and its implications are the musical version of saying to a painter: You’ll have to pay to use...
Art World Discussion: What’s The Role Of Art In These Uncertain Times?
As artists and the public at large become ever more engaged in tackling world problems, and social media pushes everything to new levels of...
Why TV Writers Are Unhappy
Studios are cutting writing budgets to the bone by hiring fewer people for shorter time periods, often without paying for lower-level writers to be...
This Year’s Tony Nominations: Boldness And Backsliding
The spirit of boldness that marked Broadway’s reopening in the wake of a once-in-a-century pandemic and widespread societal reckonings on equity, diversity and inclusion...
Three Years After His Death, Philosopher Roger Scruton Is More Influential Than Ever
Conferences on Scruton’s work are springing up like mushrooms across the continent. Budapest boasts a chain of Scruton cafes that hold regular discussions of his...
Book Banning: Et Tu, Canada?
A push that began last summer to remove a few children's sexual education books from the southern Manitoba library system has since bubbled up into...
Regina Symphony Ponders Its Place Post-COVID As Audiences Are Slow To Rebound
"But in many places, the idea of the regularity and the consistency of attendance and participation in orchestral activities has been broken." - CBC
