Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Classical Music Is Disappearing From Our Common Public Spaces
It's part of a trend that is increasingly unavoidable: the disappearance of classical music from the kind of cultural settings where it used to be...
Study: Effects Of Music On Our Bodies
The researchers discuss the concept that the body responds rhythmically to the music you are listening to, speeding up when the tempo is faster,...
Why I Study The Great Emptiness Of Space
Cosmic voids are cosmology at its purest. They are simple. The complications of star formation and black holes don’t impact them because they don’t...
What It’s Like Being A Backup Dancer On Tour
Most mornings start with waking up in the tour bus in a new city. - Dance Magazine
Eighty Percent Of Younger Viewers Keep Subtitles Turned On. Why?
A study last November found that four out of five viewers aged between 18 and 25 said they use subtitles “all or part of the time”...
Only Months Before Release, Studio Scraps Batgirl Movie After Spending $90 Million
Following reports that the Burbank studio giant will no longer offer the movie on its streaming platform or in theaters, filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall...
One Of Every Five Nightclubs In London Has Gone Out Of Business
The NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in...
Canadians Excel At American Reality TV. Why?
Canadians performing well against Americans isn’t a new concept in sports, but the recent onscreen successes raise the obvious question: Are Canadians just better...
What’s Wrong With American Cheerfulness
At its worst, cheer can be breezily dishonest, an on-demand feeling that we can project to get what we want. It can also be...
Stephen King Testifies In Mega-Book-Publisher Merger Trial. Here’s What He Said
During 45 minutes of testimony, King laid out the changes he’s witnessed over a half-century career in collaboration with a number of different publishers....
Academy Of Motion Pictures Elects A New President
Producer Janet Yang brings a deep well of experience within the film industry and in the academy itself. Her producing credits include “The Joy...
When Buckminster Fuller Met Steve Jobs
Fuller had devoted his career to predicting the impact of technology, but he saw nothing special in Apple: “I remember him saying that he...
Dana Gioia: Poetry Is Essential To Religion
At the risk of offending most believers, it is necessary to state a simple but unacknowledged truth: It is impossible to understand the full...
Are Our Emotions Shaped By The Words We Use?
Instead of seeing emotions as bequeathed by biology, we might see them as learned: “instilled in us by our parents and other cultural agents,”...
“Content” Is A Funny Word. But It Degrades Ideas And Truth
But what exactly is content? Who produces it? Why and how did it come to be viewed as “essential”? And how will content continue...
Would Theatre Be Better If There Was Less Theatre?
One way to take action is to make a conscious decision to collaborate more and do less, but do it more thoughtfully and with...
It’s Not So Easy To Get Your Head Around What The Internet Is
If we can tear ourselves away from the hype and hysteria that passes for online culture, and stretch out our historico-philosophical telescopes, there really...
What’s At Stake In The Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House Merger Trial
A win for the government would not appear to bode well for Simon & Schuster. Penguin Random House is already a giant and will...
British Museum Suggests “Partnership” With Greece On Parthenon Marbles
“What we are calling for is an active ‘Parthenon partnership’ with our friends and colleagues in Greece. I firmly believe there is space for a...
How Speaking Other Languages Works In Your Brain
It turns out that when a multilingual person wants to speak, the languages they know can be active at the same time, even if only...
John Leguiziamo’s Plan For More Latinx Presence In Hollywood
Over the years, he said, studio executives have rejected his pitches for stories, telling Leguizamo — who is of Colombian descent — that Latino...
Why MBS’s Franken-City Will Never Be Built In The Saudi Desert
Bin Salman finds himself confronting a classic strongman’s dilemma: He has gotten the team he deserves, a staff that’s too well-paid to give it...
Shortlist For The First-Ever Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize
The prize honors a book-length work of imaginative fiction with $25,000. The nine shortlisted books will be considered by a panel of five jurors....
How Laura Jackson Is Blazing A New Path At The Reno Philharmonic
"I’ve learned over time to always come back and attach to the mission and to the power of music. That has allowed me to...
MTT — So Much For That Retirement
Mostly with his old orchestras in San Francisco and Miami, but elsewhere as well, Michael Tilson Thomas is vigorously raising the baton, receiving the...
