Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A First: This Year’s Giller Prize Shortlist
The most obvious is that, for the first time, all are by writers of colour. A glimpse between their covers reveals something else though....
New App Will Listen While You Hum And Identify And Play The Song
Once the service identifies a track, it will show you an information page with its title, artist and single/album cover where you can play...
The Uber-Rich’s Mad Rush To Evacuate Art As Hurricane Ian Approached
“It reinforces the importance of the pre-storm plans, because after the storm, the conditions are so detrimental to the artwork. The humidity, you don’t...
Nina Totenberg’s Friendship With RBG Shows The Perils Of Insider Friendships
There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to...
Why We Laugh
This raises the possibility that laughter may have been preserved by natural selection throughout the past millennia to help humans survive. It could also explain why...
Movie Academy’s LA Museum Sees Boffo Box Office In Its First Year
At the very least, the museum’s rosy first-year financial picture makes it something of a rarity among nonprofit cultural institutions, many of which are...
Sydney Festival Quits All Funding By Foreign Governments After Controversies
Sydney festival has suspended all funding agreements with foreign governments and their cultural agencies, after a mass boycott by artists and audiences earlier this...
American Newspapers Are Losing Their Comics Sections
This shrinking of American “funny pages” comes more than a century after the rise of the print comics section. “Comic strips were created —...
TikTok Creators Are Making Shortened Versions Of Movies And Getting Millions Of Views
Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite...
The Organization That Tries To Bring The Performing Arts To Everyone In America
In time, instrumentalists, chamber groups, dance companies, orchestras, theatre troupes, opera companies—even comedians, magicians, and other offbeat entertainers (literally tens of thousands of performers)—would...
Meet Andres. He’s 10. His Last Painting Sold For $230,000
In the last year, he has gone from a relative unknown to a bona fide art phenomenon. His surrealist-style paintings were acquired by deep-pocketed...
Amazon Is Getting Closer To Replacing Humans With Robots (Or Is It?)
Will a new generation of warehouse robots that can grasp goods almost as well as human hands make work better or easier for the...
Is Endless Choice Ruining Your Love Of Music?
“That was the problem. Using music, rather than having it be its own experience … What kind of music am I going to use to...
The Australian Town Keeping Square Dancing Alive
One of the appeals of square dancing is that it can be done anywhere; once you know the moves, you can attend any club...
The Role Of Shame: Once We Tried To Protect People, Now It’s Online Sport
An ambient culture of shame saturates the online social environment. On such platforms as Twitter or TikTok or YouTube the risk of humiliation is...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Went On A European Tour And Were Treated To…
The orchestra’s members enjoy treatment on these trips more in line with sports teams or pop stars than classical musicians (although the gatherings lean...
Netflix Settles Its Copyright Suit Against Bridgerton Musical
Netflix sued in July, alleging that Emily Barlow and Abigail Bear had infringed on its copyrights by putting on a for-profit stage show at the...
The Vibrant Art Scene Growing On The Edge Of Delhi
“The Indian contemporary art scene has been rocketing since Covid. People have been spending a lot of time in their homes and want something...
Is AI In Art A Tool Or A Toy?
Everything has a potential to be used as a weapon—imagery, words, music, text. But we also see an opportunity here for people who never...
Europe Faces A Cold, Expensive Winter. How Will Museums Stay Warm?
The most desperate museums have reported possible plans to reduce opening hours over the winter, but this is not an outcome that should be...
King Charles Has Strong Ideas About Architecture. This Is The Town He Has Idealized
The town of about 4,600 people has been widely mocked as a prince’s plaything and architectural theme park. Yet for one very important man...
Theatre Across America Is Changing (Because It Has To)
"I think it's time for us to re-imagine. Seventy-five years of doing it the same way is a long time." - NPR
Jazz God Pharaoh Sanders, 81
Is that why people called his music “spiritual jazz?” Because it made us feel like we were being released from the physical world? Sanders...
Confessional: My Job Was To Keep You Bored And Endlessly Clicking
"I was privy to the click maps provided by newsletter services like Mailchimp; I added up likes and comments and shares and divided them...
What These Two Michael Jackson Impersonators Say About A Divide In Argentine Culture
Mr. Garcia, 33, and Mr. Blanco, 26, have both dedicated their lives to transforming themselves into the same pop star. But for all the...
