Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Rage Fueling The New Campus Novels
A life made, or half-made, under conditions of academic precarity is often a paranoid, anxious, stupefying life—stupefying in part because, in some sense, you...
New AI System Makes Dubbing Of Films In Foreign Languages Less Awful
"The process begins with recording an actor speaking the dialog in the required language, as one would in a dubbing process, explains co-founder and...
What If The Idea Of “The Tragedy Of The Commons” Is All Wrong?
Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom believed so. "While conservation almost always carries at least some short-term costs, researchers have found that many community-based conservation projects...
The First Opera Written For And Produced In Virtual Reality
"What is most radical about Current, Rising is not the technology but how the creative process has been flipped. Rather than the composer setting...
A Mysterious Group Of Ancient Monuments In Saudi Arabia Older Than The Pyramids
Scattered across 77,000 square miles of desert in northwest Arabia, the mustatils (the name comes from the Arabic word for “rectangle”) were built between 8,500...
UK Threatens To Cut Funds For University-Level Arts Education By 50%
"Under proposals put forward earlier this year by Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, funding from the Office for Students — the independent regulator of...
New York Times Dance Critic On Writing About People’s Bodies
Gia Kourlas: "Generally, it doesn't feel fraught, but at the same time I am aware of the sensitivity it takes to write about the...
Meet The Detective Who’s Recovered Half A Billion Dollars’ Worth of Stolen Art
" Marinello is one of a handful of people who track down stolen masterpieces for a living. Operating in the grey area between wealthy...
W. Royal Stokes, Washington Post Jazz Critic, Dead At 90
"A onetime professor of classics who became a major presence in jazz as a Washington-based radio disc jockey, journalist and author known for his...
Britain’s Reopening, But A Quarter Of Its Summer Rock Festivals Are Cancelled. Why? Insurance.
"According to the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), which has been tracking festivals taking place in Britain this year, 26% of all festivals with...
How France Is Managing Reopening Of Arts Venues
Roselyne Bachelot, the culture minister, has outlined the planned stages of reopening and rules that will be in place beginning May 19: for instance,...
UK’s Cinema Chains Are Reopening, Despite Shortage Of New Films To Show
"The UK's biggest cinema chain, which is sweetening its £9.99 monthly all-you-watch subscription scheme to get punters back indoors as summer nears, will...
Plexiglass, Screens, Headphones — A Return to Theatre Spaces?
In these uncertain, transitional days, theater companies remain perplexed about how and when to open their doors, and so many potential ticket-buyers fret over...
How A John Denver Song Inspired A Generation Of Asian Immigrants
Over the past half century, Denver’s Appalachian anthem has also lodged in the hearts of many families in Asia, thousands of miles away from...
Carey Perloff Remembers Olympia Dukakis
She was an astonishing teacher, spending hours and hours in the classroom every time she came to ACT, and back home in New York,...
Alastair Macaulay Remembers Jacques d’Amboise
His charm was colossal and effortless, his love for many people effusive and happy. I keep coming across poems and messages he sent me....
How To Spend COVID Relief Money? Japanese Town Buys A Giant Squid Statue
It reportedly used 25m yen ($228,500; £164,700) of the emergency funding to build the statue. Noto officials have told local media it is part...
Novels Can Be Any Length. So Why Are They This Long?
"The novel is an extremely flexible form. It can come out in countless shapes, include infinite content, and end up almost any length. Let’s...
Backstage Union Warns That Met Opera Will Not Reopen In 2021
In a statement issued by its president, IATSE Local One stressed that the current situation is a lockout rather than a strike and that...
Redefining Monuments In Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Not granite or bronze, these new monuments by Deborah Willis, Sadie Barnette, Ebony G. Patterson, Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, and Black Quantum Futurism,...
Finally, A Decent App For Borrowing Ebooks From The Library
A clunky, outmoded piece of software called OverDrive had been the standard app for getting reading material from the library onto your Kindle. Instead...
Juilliard’s “Slavery Saturday”: A Teaching Moment?
"For nearly seven decades, Juilliard has been a byword of rigor in the performing arts, with world-class music and dance divisions. The drama division...
How The Sackler Family Got Its Own Art Storage Gallery At The Metropolitan Museum
" a 600-square-foot gallery-cum-warehouse that Arthur Sackler had commandeered as his personal storage facility, a deal he wrangled by dangling the possibility of eventually...
Verizon Sells The Internet Junkyard (AOL, Yahoo…)
The telecom giant is selling Yahoo, AOL and the remainder of its Verizon Media brands to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in...
How Four Regional Ballet Companies Are Moving Back Into In-Person Performance
"Pointe spoke to four U.S. ballet companies — Milwaukee Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Avant Chamber Ballet and Columbia City Ballet — about how...