Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Growth As A Measure Of Success? How About De-Growth Instead?
Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This...
ChatGPT Is Wildly Popular. The Site Keeps Crashing, And The AI Will Explain What’s...
Having only launched as a public beta on Nov. 30, ChatGPT crested well over a million users in five days. Since then, media coverage...
Apple Promised A New Classical Music Streaming App This Year. What Happened To It?
"Apple Music plans to launch a dedicated classical music app next year combining Primephonic's classical user interface," said an Apple Newsroom press release shared last year....
Museums’ Days Of Swashbuckling Collecting Are Over
Today many U.S. museums are facing a reckoning for their aggressive tactics of the past. Attitudes have shifted, the Indiana Jones era is over,...
Yoga Practitioners Push Back Against Cultural Appropriation
This week, practitioners in India have once again sought to draw attention to what they see as cultural appropriation of yoga, amid allegations it...
The Ambitious Public Art Going Into Seattle’s New Light Rail System
Just the long noun “government-agency-run public art” might’ve made some of you sleepy; the adjective “taxpayer-funded” might have others wondering where you put your...
Allegations Of Sexual Harassment At Juilliard
According to a 2020 survey conducted by the school, 11 percent of respondents indicated knowledge of a sexual assault that took place in a Juilliard-related context....
How A Seattle Dance Company Bought A Church
“When came in and showed us how they were going to love the space, to use it for art and dance, it was...
Post-Mortem: English National Opera
Did it have to die? The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. Take opera in English,...
Principal Bans Students From Seeing “Oliver” Over Concerns About “Violence, Alcohol Use and Thievery.”
The Children's Musical Theatreworks show, which opened to general audiences on Dec. 2, wasn’t some new, explicit, souped-up version of the classic Broadway musical....
The History Of Books In Defining The World
Since all reading at that time occurred out loud rather than inside one’s head, the study rooms were a modern librarian’s nightmare: no one...
Rise Of The Virtual AI Girl Bands
In fact, there's mainly one big difference between them and any other pop group you might know - all 11 members are virtual characters....
Crappy Pay Is Pushing Writers Out Of Publishing
The report shows a drop in the proportion of full-time authors from 40% of those surveyed in 2006 to just 19% today. This shows...
Some Fears About The Future Of Choreography
Difficult conversations about intention, taste, and editing are vital for the sake of developing successful new work. With focused training, and subsequent appropriate delivery...
Have We Reached The End Of Our Love Affair With Celebrity Memoirs?
According to industry magazine the Bookseller, hardback sales of celebrity autobiographies are down compared to last year, when titles by Billy Connolly, Bob Mortimer and Dave...
This Year’s Turner Prize Winner Is Older. Makes Sense.
There is something universally cheery and comforting about the phrase “oldest ever winner” – designed to put a glint in the middle-aged eye and...
Has Spotify Actually Cracked The Code To Your Musical Taste?
“People often think about taste as being really individual,. But in the social sciences we say: ‘Ah, that’s not really true.’ Your tastes are...
Has TikTok Killed The Pop Music Bridge?
If you have listened to pop music at all in the past few years, you may have noticed that something is missing. The bridge...
How The Greatest Generation Of Physicists Upended The World
The era upended the world as these men and women knew it, both scientifically and socially, and they heatedly debated how to reconceptualize their...
Just Who Is Victoria Ryan, This Year’s Turner Prize Winner?
The Caribbean-English artist Ryan, who is 66 years old, is the second Black woman and the oldest artist to ever win the prize, which...
A Century On, Looking Back At Three Classics That Were Deliberately Difficult
These books are deliberately, self-consciously challenging, in content and in form. They are also hard, beautiful, powerful, and brilliant. That account of their greatness...
Selfies Are Robbing Museum-Goers Of Experience
I can’t help but think that the artwork people are photographing in museums is falling on myopic eyes. Museumgoers are increasingly regarding the work...
Social Media Influencers Are Crashing Right Now
What does content creation look like during a cost-of-living crisis, when more and more people are shut out of the lifestyle that luxury influencers...
Maybe Not This Art, But Some Art Should Be Attacked By Vandals?
Every art lover, Blake Gopnik included, is aghast at the potential damage to cultural treasures. But he's also aghast at the damage being wreaked...
Audience Member Yells Racial Slur During Detroit Symphony Performance
The incident took place during a performance of “A Charlie Brown Christmas: Cyrus Chestnut & Friends,” a one-night-only event. - Detroit 4
