Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Melting Glaciers In Mongolia Reveal And Imperil Ancient Artifacts
Frozen heritage is melting from mountain ice in every hemisphere. As it does so, small groups of archaeologists are scrambling to cobble together the funding...
What Graffiti From Venetian Quarantine Facilities Of The 1400’s Tell Us
In their free time, some of the porters wrote on the large walls of the tezon grande, a room over 105 yards long that was...
Why Is This Noted Antiquities Scholar Being Accused Of Theft Of Artifacts?
It is an understatement to say that the dispute over Dirk Obbink and the papyrus has shaken a scholarly world where ancient texts are...
Some Worrying Trends In Fundraising For Public Radio
Since FY16, median new donor counts have fallen 8%. During that time, median sustaining donors have dropped nearly 18%. - Current
Eric Schmidt: How Artificial Intelligence Will Interact With Us
We need to think now of what happens when artificial intelligence is co-resident with us in the world. It lives with us; it watches...
How A Hit Song Behaves Like A Viral Infection
"When a disease breaks into a population you tend to see a sharp increase in infection cases and eventually it will peak at some...
What, Exactly Is “Distinctly British” TV?
Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British”...
What Happened To Books? Well…
"They became tedious redoubts for the pious certainties of a besieged, over-educated and underemployed intellectual class dissatisfied with – and powerless to change – the mindless,...
Science as A Value-Free Enterprise
It is central to science, and its claims to objectivity, that values do not override facts. An important feature of this view of science...
Behind Yale’s Failed Singapore Venture
Singapore has followed its dismissal of Yale's liberal education by introducing a Foreign Interference Act that, "under the guise of defending national sovereignty, will enable...
Yusef Cat Stevens Is Back. What Do We Think About That?
For devotees of Stevens’s classic material, it can feel as though he’s making amends for having walked away from his music all those years...
Blockbuster Hollywood Talent Deal: CAA To Buy ICM
Creative Artists Agency is acquiring its rival ICM Partners in a blockbuster deal that will consolidate the ranks of major Hollywood agencies as the representation industry...
Ban Critical Arguments About America’s History? It’s A Familiar Tactic
We found the same arguments used by anti-radical activists as they sought for years to ban from public schools and universities Howard Zinn’s best-selling...
Now Stabilized, Could Notre Dame Reopen In 2024?
“We’re officially saying that the cathedral is now saved, that it’s solid on its pillars, that its walls are solid, everything is holding together....
How Digitization Is Changing The Essence Of Collecting Culture
The collector is the only one who decides how to arrange her possessions, ordering books by author, title, theme, or even (unfortunately) color of...
A Tonys Ceremony Full Of Apprehension
What you had all night was a temporal mash-up: Broadway’s past jockeying for space with Broadway’s future — a future that at the moment...
That Punk Beethoven?
Who are the supposed punks of the classical music world? It seems that, for many commentators, any composer who went against the grain in...
The Battle For Good Sentences
A sentence might sound promising in your head but crumble during its translation to the page. It might get maimed when shaved or become...
Updating Books For The TikTok Era
Amazon’s Kindle Vella spotlights the growing market for episodic stories, designed for mobile devices, unfolding as larger narratives over time. - GeekWire
Is Social Media Eroding Our Appreciation Of Art?
From influencing creation, curation and perception, there’s no denying social media is changing the way we experience art. It’s an effective tool for generating...
Looted Ancient Gilgamesh Tablet Returned To Iraq
The Oklahoma-based company Hobby Lobby—whose billionaire owner Steve Green founded the Museum of the Bible in 2018—purchased the tablet from Christie’s for nearly $2m...
Sundance Institute’s Head Of Indigenous Inclusion Reflects On 20 Years Of Programming
Bird Runningwater has built upon the organization’s foundations of Indigenous inclusion, helping to develop a pipeline of Indigenous creative talent and expand their cultural...
A Revolution In How/Why We Work
The moral structure of work is up for grabs. And with labor-friendly economic conditions, workers have little to lose by making creative demands on...
Newly Discovered Fossil Footprints Suggest Humans Were in North America 21,000 Years Ago
Until now, scientists believed humans travelled south into the Americas when this ice barrier began to melt – 16,500 years ago. But we have discovered ...
Kristy Edmunds Named New Director Of Mass MoCA
Edmunds has been a leading voice in the arts in Los Angeles, having steered CAP UCLA since 2011. - Los Angeles Times