Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The New Economy: Warner Brothers TV Makes Deep Cuts
The studio is cutting 26% of personnel, a total of 125 positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation. - Deadline
Why It Always Comes Down To Good Versus Evil
The ideas of “Good” and “Evil” are premised on some concept of “Value.” That is, “Good” and “Evil” can only be real if some...
Worried About The Robots Taking Over? It’s More Subtle Than That
Don’t worry about superintelligent A.I.s trying to enslave us; worry about ignorant and venal A.I.s designed to squeeze every penny of online ad revenue...
Can Data Predict Hit Songs?
Spotify metrics we studied — including acousticness, danceability, duration, energy, explicitness, instrumentalness, liveness, speechiness (a measure of the presence of spoken words in a song), tempo and release year — were not strong predictors of the song’s...
How Status Drives Cultural Change
To maintain their positions, the normals conform to social conventions, even as they aspire to higher status. Individuals’ decisions about when to switch from...
Petition Asks For Repatriation Of The Rosetta Stone
Launched in September, the campaign urges Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to submit an official request for the return of the stone and 16...
Angela Lansbury, 96
Lansbury was the winner of five Tony Awards for her starring performances on the New York stage, from “Mame” in 1966 to “Blithe Spirit”...
Guerrilla Artists In Toronto Turn Derelict Parts Of The City Into Critique Of The...
Ahead of Toronto’s municipal election in late October, plaques like those normally found in an art museum have sprung up across the city, in...
The Booker Has Brought Back The Short-Form Book
How refreshing it was to see the Booker prize take another turn last month – putting the short in shortlist, as it were –...
Paris Gallery Charged With Stealing Hundreds Of Picassos
The gallerist Anne Pfeffer and her husband Herbert, stand accused of concealing hundreds of works stolen from the daughters of Jacqueline Picasso and the art...
Does How Much You Feel Music Correspond To Your Capacity For Empathy?
Most people don’t often think about the relationship between empathy and musical experiences, but there is good reason to. - Psyche
UK To Audit Brexit Arts Festival. Did Anybody Come?
The UK-wide free event, which began in March and will run until November, features 10 projects highlighting science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics....
The Importance Of Argument
Once we start thinking of ethics as a social technology, systematicity and argument take on a different hue. It’s hard to be all that...
Can We Build Reusable Buildings?
The emphasis has shifted to designing structures whose components can be disassembled and developing new, bio-based materials that can eventually be composted. “We should...
Glasgow Clubs Are Using Dancers’ Body Heat To Save Power
Officially launched on 6 October, Bodyheat is installed across two of the largest event spaces within the SWG3 complex – Galvanizers and TV Studio...
The Power Of Small Gestures: Small Bookstore Stages Fundraiser, Russell Crowe Responds
The bookshop, which opened in 2019, was in its infancy as a business when it was forced to close during Covid lockdowns. It managed...
Ukrainian City Stages Defiant Literary Festival
“I started to be a witness to events. This is a primal function of art … More talented writers of the next generations will...
How A High School’s Gender-Neutral Production Of “Jesus Christ Superstar” Went Off The Rails
Members from the Union County chapter of Moms for Liberty were quick to voice their horror at the gender-diverse casting and the fact the school’s logo...
Hermitage Curator Of Contemporary Art Quits The Museum
Dmitry Ozerkov, who had been at the Saint Petersburg museum for more than 20 years, explained his decision in a lengthy Instagram post, writing...
What’s Your “Q” Score? (No, Not That One)
Characters, sports figures, local TV news anchors: They all have a Q, and that Q Score was used by advertising agencies, TV studios, Hollywood...
Music Touring Is Broken. We Need To Talk About It
Amidst the misery of the pandemic’s peak, there were hopes that the effective shutdown of the touring industry would allow for the music business...
Streaming Reimagines Itself As… Cable TV?
Some companies are coming to the conclusion they will need a dance partner to pursue growth instead of going it alone. Other Hollywood giants...
The Problem With Land Acknowledgments
A land acknowledgment is what you give when you have no intention of giving land. It is like a receipt provided by a highway...
How Do You Translate A Word-Heavy Show Like “Hamilton” Into German?
In "Hamilton," those words go by at breakneck speed, full of English idioms and the rapping rhymes and rhythms of the musical's hip-hop roots....
Nathalie Stutzmann’s Road To Music Director Of The Atlanta Symphony
Of course, I understand that it is important. But I never said, “I’m a woman, but I will try to do this.” I just...
