Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Getting Students To Seriously Wrestle With Cancel Culture And ‘Loving The Art But Hating...
"For 20 years now, … Harvey Weinstein was still feared, Kanye West was still about the music, and museums exhibited portfolios of amoral...
The Science Of Victimhood?
A study identifies a negative personality trait they call TIV or Tendency toward Interpersonal Victimhood. People who score high on a TIV test have...
Daniel Libeskind To Redesign Pittsburgh’s Tree Of Life Synagogue, Site Of 2018 Shooting
"Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, has experience responding to traumatic events through architecture. He...
Book Of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s Love Letters Marks End Of 18-Year Legal Battle Between...
The letters were between the French author of The Little Prince and his wife, a Salvadoran artist of whom his family sternly disapproved. The...
Did Kim Kardashian Traffic A Looted Antiquity?
According to a newly filed lawsuit, in 2016, U.S. Customs seized a fragment of an ancient Roman statue that it believed had been stolen...
Why Broadway Isn’t Restarting Until September
"With as many as eight shows a week to fill, and the tourists who make up an important part of their customer base yet...
Britain’s NHS Tries Prescribing Song Playlists To Alzheimer’s Patients
"A test among people with dementia found an algorithm that 'prescribes' songs based on listeners' personal backgrounds and tastes resulted in reductions in heart...
Austin’s Arts Funding Down By A Staggering 93%
"Money for Austin's municipal arts funding comes from the Hotel Occupancy Tax of which the arts receive 15% of the city's allocation. Funding levels...
‘Sesame Street’ Was A Radical Experiment
"It's easy to forget now, given the show's 52-year ubiquity, that the original program was a shot in the dark – the first show...
Technology In The Arts After COVID
Rachel Moore: "Performing arts organizations experienced a steep learning curve that dictated a digital competency most probably never aspired to. Whether this new learning...
How Data Science Is Analyzing The Arts
"Computer scientists are writing algorithms to identify the emotional arcs of novels. Sociologists are building statistical models to analyze why certain works of visual...
“Multitasking” Is A Lie
The American Psychological Association has reported that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% in productivity....
The Moral Imperative For Releasing The Patents On Vaccines
"The pharmaceutical industry and the governments of several vaccine-producing countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Commission,...
Celebrate Napoleon? Well, It Is His 200th Birthday…
This isn’t the first time that commemorating Napoleon or the events of his reign has posed a problem. In 2005, the then president of...
Fifty Years Ago Photography Was Barely Considered Art. Now…
"There are now more galleries showing contemporary art than those devoted to the entire rest of art history, with sales at auction houses following...
Great Writers On Their Best- And Least-Loved Punctuation Marks
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe on exclamation points, Garielle Lutz and Toni Morrison on commas, Norman Mailer on hyphens, Cormac McCarthy on periods,...
Cuomo: Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that Broadway will reopen on Sept. 14, with some tickets going on sale beginning tomorrow. Theaters will...
The World’s Longest-Running Play, Coming Back From Its First Closure In 69 Years
The producers of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in London's West End have "employed two casts who will rehearse and work completely separately, and appear...
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...