Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Lessons From Hamline University’s Firing Of An Art History Lecturer
Standing up for a religious minority’s right to exist, believe, and worship freely does not mean leaving all your other values at the door,...
City Of Leeds Embarks On Its Own Year Of Culture After Brexit Killed Its...
Leeds 2023 is the “unofficial” city of culture. The city’s official bid to be European capital of culture began about a decade ago but was dashed...
Florida College Goes To War With DeSantis After Governor Appoints New Oversight
In a tweet, Christopher Rufo said the group will seek to a create a new core curriculum, “abolish ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ and replace it...
NYC’s Shed Restructures Its Leadership
“It has become more and more clear to me that, to really take us on to the next chapter, I need to dedicate my...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Top Leadership And Will Restructure
OSF has recently been trying to offset deficits from the pandemic’s impact, including reducing its number of shows each season, shortening its calendar for...
Mellon Foundation Picks A New Arts Program Officer
Stephanie Ybarra joins Mellon following her tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, where she broke ground as the country’s first Latina artistic...
What Daniel Barenboim Accomplished In Berlin
In Berlin, the former-musical-prodigy-turned-artistic-director increasingly became a cultural politician. In keeping with his self-image, he found his equals at the federal (rather than the...
The Meritocracy? It Doesn’t Exist. It’s All About Networking
The experience had clued him in to something: In elite circles, not all opportunities were advertised. There were rooms that the rest of us...
The Golden Globes Still Have A Long Way To Go To Redeem Themselves
In the end, the Globes had to make three arguments Tuesday: that it has survived its past scandals to become a better organization; that...
Tracking A Precipitous Decline In Innovation
Across broad landscapes of science and technology, the past is eating the present, progress is plunging, and truly disruptive work is hard to come...
Is Campus Free Speech Really Dead?
Are thought, argument, and debate really dying? The picture painted in the media is of a horrified, unqualified yes. But it’s a big country...
The Play About A New York Apartment Developed In A New York Apartment
A parade of well-known actors participated in the readings on Riverside Drive along the West 80s, including John Leguizamo, Ellen Burstyn and Chris Rock,...
State Of The UK Independent Bookstore Biz
Overall, 2022 was a good year for independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland, who saw their number climb to a 10-year high. According to...
How Should We Think About How We Think?
Ask someone how she thinks and you might learn that she talks to herself silently, or cogitates visually, or moves through mental space by...
A Tower In Vancouver That Literally Twists Itself To Conform To Zoning Rules
The Vancouver House is a 490-foot high-rise teetering on a narrow base, twisting and expanding as it rises. The torquing tower serves as a new gateway to...
Reasearch On Newborns Gives Insight To How/Why We Respond To Music
A 2009 study, for instance, found that newborns react to beats — i.e. they anticipate the downbeat of rhythmic patterns, which tends to support the...
The Creative Driver Behind Netflix
“It’s not a science. It’s a big creative endeavor. But it’s about recognizing that people like having more.” - The New Yorker
The Silicon Valley Of 1000 Years Ago That Spawned A Millenium Of Innovations
This culturally and linguistically diverse environment gave rise to innovations that would have lasting legacies in fields including algebra, geography, astronomy, medicine and engineering....
Why Ratmansky Is A Great Fit For NYCity Ballet
Really, the courtship between Ratmansky and City Ballet — a new New York City Ballet under the leadership of its artistic director, Jonathan Stafford, and Whelan...
Minnesota College Lecturer Fired After Showing Image Of Muhammad
After Dr. López Prater showed the image, a senior in the class complained to the administration. Other Muslim students, not in the course, supported...
Will ChatGPT Change Public Discourse?
If I’m going to choose a non-living interlocutor, why would I choose a Large Language Model – essentially a sophisticated search algorithm performed on...
Remembering Frank Galati, Chicago Theatre’s Philosopher King
Slowly, among all the things I learned from Frank (that is, everything of importance that I know), was the understanding that the true mark...
DIY Culture: John Deere Signs Right-To-Repair Deal With American Farmers
The six-page long memorandum specifically requires John Deere to provide farmers and independent repair facilities with access to the company’s tools, software, and documentation...
Columbia University’s New $600M Business School Wrestles With Capitalism
The design of the complex just blocks north of Columbia’s main Morningside Heights campus coincided with business schools around the country coming to terms...
Latest AI Tool: Can Simulate Any Human Voice With A Three-Second Sample
Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything—and do it in a way that attempts to preserve...
