Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Broadway Has Its Biggest Non-Holiday Box Office Week Ever
The figure, for 40 shows, is a huge 47% greater than this week last year. Total attendance of 357,319 was 19% more year-over-year. - Deadline
What Does It Mean To Win A Book Award For Translation?
While the International Booker might have heralded a rise in the status of literary translators, is there a commensurate deepening of appreciation for, and...
Producing Theatre Is About So Much More Than Just Producing Shows
We should cherish the miracles that happen on stages all over the country every night, even as we question why theatre needs miracles, when...
The Frick Museum Needed A New Piano. Here’s How They Went About Choosing It
With a team that included Raj Patel, the acoustician who worked on the auditorium, Ney assembled a trio of pianos to choose from, all...
A Short History Of Public Funding In The Arts
Artists and arts organizations have a long legacy of persistence and strategic organizing during periods of political and economic upheaval. - The Conversation
Warning: Australia’s Arts Education System In Crisis
NAAE Chair Dr John Nicholas Saunders said the sector was in crisis after years of cuts to arts education pathways and growing barriers to...
Scientists Believe They’ve Found The Part Of The Brain That Perceives Consciousness
Conscious perception is the ability of human beings to become aware of the stimuli received by their senses. It is a different state from...
Queensland Ballet: An Unexpected Unraveling
The company that former artistic director Li Cunxin turned into a powerhouse with an international reputation is now “beleaguered”, as one headline put it....
What Does It Mean To Be Telling The Truth About America?
What does it mean for something to be improper if the administration’s understanding of what is acceptable excludes anything that might make white Americans...
Netflix’s Big Time Bet On Streaming Live Sports
The stakes are high. WrestleMania, which began in 1985, is being treated as a litmus test - not just for WWE's global expansion, but...
What Happens To Our Culture When Hobbies Get Too Expensive
Hobby inflation, understood in this light, is about much more than price hikes: It’s about the shrinking and possible disappearance of opportunities for people...
Coming To Terms With Richard Serra
Over the past half century the art history industry has produced reams of interpretation, incorporating no shortage of words by Serra himself. The author...
How “Blockbusters” Degraded Hollywood’s Soul
I think Hollywood used to propose itself as a place where artists and creative people could sustain themselves, perhaps even strike it rich, and...
A Mathematical Model To Better Understand Language?
By thinking of language as a mathematical category, Tai-Danae Bradley's been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights. Linguists...
Study Literature? What It Means
As the English degree craters, and the idea of the university itself is under assault in the United States and elsewhere, those of us...
So What Comes After DEI?
Conservatives have painted D.E.I. as a uniform set of programs, ideas, and ideologies. In reality, the term encompasses a wide-ranging set of practices. Still,...
Books Have “No Economic Value” Claims Meta
Meta cited an expert witness who downplayed the books' individual importance, averring that a single book adjusted its LLM's performance "by less than 0.06...
The Coachella Experience Has Declined. An Identity Crisis?
The livestreams haven't calmed the complaints about Coachella's lacklustre audiences — many who watch online have commented that the crowds aren't as hype as they believe they would be...
Trump Attacks Have Provoked Canadian Nationalism. But What Does That Look Like?
A more assertive Canadian nationalism than any we’ve seen this century has come roaring back, bringing with it not only a renewed patriotism but...
Climate Protesters Pardoned For Gluing Their Hands To Old Master Painting
The two protesters, members of the German environmental group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), entered the gallery and attached one hand each to the frame...
How Is It That Ireland Hasn’t Had A National Dance Company?
How is it that an island that has managed to produce one of the strongest theatrical traditions in the West could be without a...
How Theatre Should Help Save Democracy
Culture is the sphere in which people debate and determine who they are, what they value and the kinds of lives they wish to...
How Curiosity Fires Up Great Leadership
Curiosity fosters openness and collaboration while reducing decision-making errors. Yet only 24% of organizations actively encourage it, leaving a wealth of untapped potential on...
How Trump’s Threats To Canada Shifted Its Election To All About Culture
Almost all unanimously say Conservative threats to tear up cultural institutions just as Trump aggressively seeks to recalibrate America’s relationship with Canada, whether through...
Saltz: The New Frick — What’s Not To Love?
There is a sexy underground auditorium, a 60-seat café, and the entire second floor of the mansion is now filled with art. There’s almost...
