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Douglas McLennan

Douglas McLennan
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An Artist Turns A Spotlight On Sport And The American Mythology

After Pfeiffer moved to New York and attended his first live sports spectacles, he became fascinated by how much of the work of making...

Holographic Elvis Show For £300 In London? Fans Are Mixed

Reviews suggest they have dressed up some footage from Elvis’s 1968 comeback TV special and built a show around it (which includes visits to...

Met Museum Reports Highest Attendance Since 2019

The museum announced that more than 5.7 million attendees visited its two locations — The Met Fifth Ave and The Cloisters. While the visitor rates do...

How Reality TV Changed The Way We Watch TV

"For the first time, viewers started seeing ordinary people on television who weren't celebrities, which is a very different phenomenon." - BBC

Philosophy: Making Shit Up?

How to draw distinction between the good philosophy and the bad philosophy? How much philosophy counts as good, and how much philosophy counts as...

Can Poetry De-escalate Polarization?

Poetry has always been political. The writer and civil-rights activist Audre Lorde argued it produces “a revelatory distillation of experience”. In other words, by distilling aspects...

Want To Understand Someone? Look At Their Spotify Playlists

Don’t waste time perusing photos their mom posted on Facebook nine years ago. If you want to get to know someone—and I mean really know them—there...

Study: People Relate Better To Neurotic Robots

"A majority of participants actually mentioned how human-like they found the neurotic robot," says Alex Wuqi Zhang, a researcher at the University of Chicago. "They...

What Happens Now That Skydance Owns Paramount?

CBS, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures are all bracing for upheaval when Larry Ellison and his son, David, take the keys from Paramount Global...

A Trend? New Horror Movies Depict The Rich As Monsters

 In films like Ready or Not (2019) and The Menu (2022), the rich aren’t simply out of touch; they’re portrayed as predators, criminals or even monsters. -...

Hamburg Is Building A New Opera House. Its Funder Is Problematic

His family’s company, Kühne + Nagel, is one of the world’s largest logistics firms, and collaborated with the Nazi regime to transport goods stolen...

The Opera Company That Operates A Bel Canto Boot Camp

Before its opening night, Teatro Nuovo spends the summer immersing its training singers — both hired professionals and annual resident artists — in bel...

What Happened To The Grand Canyon’s Most-Famous Statue After a Recent Fire?

“From reports we received from the field, the Brighty statue did survive the fire at the Grand Canyon Lodge, however, it is heavily damaged...

The Art Of The Book Spredge

Edge-painted books are now so widespread that you can find them at Walmart. The feature has spread from romance and fantasy to horror, thrillers...

Why Chuck Mangione Endured

His hit “Feels So Good,” an instrumental pop-jazz crossover that reached No. 4 on the Billboard charts during the summer of 1978, has unexpectedly...

“Rap Act” Reintroduced In Congress: Would Ban Using Lyrics Inadmissible In Court

The bill would change the rules of evidence for federal courtrooms, making song lyrics inadmissible unless prosecutors can meet strict criteria, such as showing...

The Art World Has Fragmented Into Five Fields

 These include the art-market subfield, the exhibition subfield, the academic subfield, a multitude of community-based subfields, and the field of cultural activism. While these...

LA MoCA Loses Its Fifth Director Since 2008

On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Burton, 53, would be exiting the Los Angeles museum at...

AI As Academic Freedom Issue

AI is here, rather suddenly, pretty disruptively, and in a big way. Different institutions are adopting different stances and much of the adaptation is...

Columbia University’s Capitulation To Trump Is A Threat To Universities

Some say the settlement is unlawful, pointing to the quick investigation, vague allegations and unprecedented way federal funds were retracted before Columbia had a...

How Literature Explains The Attraction Of Public Shaming

This spectacle raises a deeper question: why does infidelity, especially among the powerful, provoke such public outcry. Literary tradition offers some insight: intimate betrayal...

What Powers (Almost) Everything We Do

North America’s electric system is a miracle, but also kind of a mess. - The New Atlantis

French Government Creating a Digital Twin Of Notre Dame

The French government has teamed up with tech giant Microsoft to create a “digital twin” of the 862-year-old treasure. This virtual version will be...

Artist Cancels Smithsonian Show Over Censorship Fears

Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing...

Trump Dismisses Concerns Over Copyright And AI

 “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're...
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