Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Australia’s New Cultural Policy Stokes Optimism
With $286 million in funding over five years, ‘there is a lot to like in the new cultural policy, restoring cuts made under Brandis,...
We Think Of Skeptics As Unhappy People. The Ancients Believed Skepticism Was The Way...
Sceptics were pretty happy about it. They thought of their scepticism as a way of life – as a way of reaching ataraxia or tranquillity. In...
Movie Music In The Concert Hall Is A Hit
Even the most curmudgeonly of musicians and symphony-goers are coming to accept the value of these sorts of shows. And, most importantly, the music is...
Dance As Political Tool
Although few of us recognize dance performance as overtly political, using dance for political messaging is nothing new. - Washington Post
Oh No: Joe Rogan Listeners Head To The East River In Search Of Mammoth...
In a recent interview on that show, which has an estimated audience of 11 million listeners per episode on Spotify, a guest from Alaska presented...
Using Subtitles While Watching TV? You’re Not Alone
If you’re switching subtitles on because you simply can’t make out what the actors are saying, it’s (probably) not your ears that are to...
Singer Reflects On 12-Year Career Break And Body Shaming
In an interview, Limmie Pulliam reflected on his 12-year break from singing and the challenges facing larger artists, who once were common in the...
A Fascinating Window Into The Public Theater
The Public may be the only remaining major American theatre that operates according to proudly articulated left-wing principles. On a wall in the offices...
The NYC Housing You Have To Audition For
Would-be residents of a particular wing on the 12th floor of the Webster Apartments, a building on West 34th Street, must first give ‘em...
Arthur Miller, Reconsidered
To anyone who grew up with the image of Miller as a lionized elder statesman of the American theatre, John Lahr’s account of Miller’s...
When People Want To Identify Themselves With A Favorite Artist (And, Oh Yes, Buy...
If visitors are willing to spend that kind of money to dress up like a favorite artist, that’s because today’s art-loving public finds as...
A Vast Mayan Kingdom Discovered In Guatemala
Their findings reveal a “level of infrastructure that is just mind-boggling,” said Dr. Timothy Beach, a professor of geography at the University of Texas at...
Penguin Random House CEO Steps Down
Madeline McIntosh, a popular figure in publishing circles who steered Penguin Random House U.S. through the recent Covid-19 pandemic and championed a more inclusive...
The Baby Boomers Changed Everything. What Happens When They’re Gone?
They were a cohort of historically unprecedented size, whose basic need to be clothed, fed, housed and educated was a decades-long jobs creator and...
Last Week A Plan To Close The Vancouver Folk Music Festival. This Week A...
An open letter from the board says several parties have offered possible solutions for funding and support since it announced the plan to end...
Why We’re Missing Memories From The Pandemic
We might assume that our pandemic memories are missing because information entered our brains, then slipped from it—like a toy tumbling out of a clumsy...
A Nun From 900 Years Ago Had A Profound Influence On Music (And Does...
Hildegard’s fame has crossed over into zones of New Age spirituality, environmental discourse, and feminist thought. In the gift shop at the Hildegard Abbey,...
A Successful Life? Freedom From Anxiety
The more general such claims are, the easier it is to agree. But when we delve into what makes the various philosophers different, what...
Artists Believe Copyright Benefits Them. But Corporations Are The Biggest Beneficiaries
The extension of copyright has been described as essentially stealing cultural works from the public. - The Conversation
Saudi Arabia Plays With Building A Dystopian City
It is a city that might have been conceived by WeWork’s founder Adam Neumann in consultation with FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried, with the benefit...
The Rise (Again) Of Barnes & Noble
The chain, long in contraction, is expanding for the first time in a decade. It plans to open 30 new stores this year. It is increasingly...
Creativity In The Age Of “Synthetic Media”
Synthetic Media is produced by human creators who use computers and purpose-built software (including AI) to realize their production goals. Generative Synthetic Media is...
How Technology Makes Us More Human
What defines humanity is not just our unusual level of intelligence, but also how we capitalize on that intelligence... If we merely lived up...
A Copy Editor Disavows Copyediting
It’s clear that copyediting as it’s typically practiced is a white supremacist project, that is, not only for the particular linguistic forms it favors...
Black Dancers In Pacific Northwest Ballet Reflect On Their Careers
When you see more people who look like you onstage, it makes you want to go and it makes you want to bring people...
