Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How The Internet Has Changed Art
There’s this huge sense of people claiming spaces and positions without truly investigating them. I’m trying to speak to this idea that art isn’t...
So How Are Those Art Investment Funds Doing?
A wealth adviser based in Florida whose firm has researched and invested in fintech companies told ARTnews that “cheap money” fueled a surge of interest in...
Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Published 400 Years Ago. Here’s What Would Have Been Lost...
Without the weight – cultural as well as literal – of the collected edition, it’s possible few would care about these surviving plays. Something...
Meaning And Machines And Making Sense Of How Art Works
There’s something irrevocably empirical about the fact that poems and novels and paintings and music and films stir cognitive-affective goings-on that have the bearings...
The Usefulness Of Feeling Irritated
Something about this ordinary, negligible feeling seems to make it inaccessible to critical reflection. Perhaps because, when irritable, we tend to be at our...
The Art Of Classical Music Fashion
While not every musical artist takes risks — in their repertory or their apparel choices, be they prét-à-porter or the hautest of haute —...
The Emerging Science Of Hope
We might typically think of hope as a touchy-feely emotion that, almost by definition, is divorced from real-life experience. In fact, as more research...
Five Ways To Protect Your Career From AI
What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI and future-proof ourselves in the age...
Shakespeare’s Environmentalism
It would, of course, be an anachronism to dub Shakespeare an environmentalist. But he was acutely aware of what we would term the environmental...
The Culture Around Cancel Culture
Cancelling is a colloquial term applied to anything from discussion about an author with a critical tone to internet pile-ons or campaigns to deplatform individuals after...
Afghanistan Archaeological Treasures In Peril
“Given the focus of most current donors on humanitarian needs, cultural heritage is inevitably regarded as marginal, despite the fact that conservation generates significant...
The Science Of Punctuation In Languages
Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent statistical analyses paint a different picture: punctuation seems to "grow...
Museums Are Reinventing How They Work
Museums are shifting gears — seeking artists of different backgrounds, arranging works in new thematic groupings, reinterpreting pieces they already own. - The New...
Theatre MFA Degrees Are Becoming Endangered
The economic viability of graduate programs is becoming an increasingly complicated question. The majority of MFA theatre programs offer tuition remission, housing, and stipends, but...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Existential Threat
“There’s been a drag on finances for some time,” Muse said, noting the problems had not been addressed over a multi-year period. “There were...
A Post-COVID Surge In Welsh History
“One factor is that there seems to be a renewed interest in Welsh history. And there was a big surge of new visitors...
In Praise Of Long Movies
The long film is without conventions—it’s like turning a football field, with its sidelines and yard lines, into an open field, unmarked and unbounded...
How Shakespeare Was Influenced By Mathematical Breakthroughs
With 2023 marking 400 years since the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, it is exciting to see how the Bard’s plays spoke to significant...
Dame Edna (Barry Humphries), 89
A stiletto-heeled, stiletto-tongued persona who might well have been the spawn of a ménage à quatre involving Oscar Wilde, Salvador Dalí, Auntie Mame and...
Damien Hirst’s AI-Generated Art Project Earns $20 Million
In a nine-day sale that ended on April 10, Hirst sold 5,508 paintings (5,109 physical artworks and 399 NFTs) and generated $20.9 million in...
How Streaming Algorithms Turned My Music-Listening To Sludge
My sludge addiction sprang from Spotify’s algorithmically curated playlists, which promised to help me focus or find music tailored to my tastes. But at...
Big Ears’ Ashley Capps And The Art Of Curating Music
Big Ears started very small in 2009, and very organically. It had been discussed for a number of years and was rooted in a...
Apple’s New Classical Music App Understands Classical
As long as we’re living in a streaming world, we might as well have technology that reflects the specific contours of the classical repertoire....
AI Trains On Banality. So An Opportunity For Human Creativity
As AI proliferates, this lack of originality in our daily language is what will render so many of our jobs irrelevant... It’s clear that...
Book Bans Proliferate Across The US
From July to December 2022, PEN found 1,477 cases of books being removed, up from 1,149 during the previous six months. Since the organization...
