Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
So Globalism Is Dead You Say? Think Again
International data flows surged as the pandemic sent in-person interactions online. The annual growth rate of international internet traffic roughly doubled in 2020. But that was...
Amazon CEO Teases Big Things Ahead For Amazon Video
“We have more invention in front of us in the next 15 years than the last 15 — and our team is passionately committed...
How The Restitution Of Africa’s Art Stalled
More than half a million such objects—by some accounts, more than ninety per cent of all cultural artifacts known to originate in Africa—are held...
Digital Avatars – The Future Of Music Tours?
May 2022 sees the latest technological advances in musical immortality when Abba return to the live stage after a 40-year absence. But this time...
On Being An Art Critic In A Weird Time For Journalism
There doesn’t seem to be a widespread, clear understanding of the distinction between journalism and criticism in the New York art scene. - Hyperallergic
Somehow, We Decided There’s No Truth. But We Need To Return To The Idea
If truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy...
The International Dance Community Has Mobilized To Help Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has hit the tightknit ballet world hard, and dancers have responded with an unprecedented storm of activism. - Washington Post
How The Internet Is Recording Ukrainian History
Archivists and librarians around the world have been working to catalogue thousands of websites that hold pieces of Ukraine’s past and present, ranging from policy papers...
How LA Shaped Amanda Gorman As A Writer
"The first event I went to was at the L.A. Times headquarters. I was so blown away. They had journalists there, and honestly,...
Los Angeles’ Role In American Literature
Until the middle of the century, its most visible work was crafted by outsiders from the East or Europe, bewildered by what they perceived...
Are We Finally Done With Prestige TV?
Mundanity and profundity—these were key to the 21st-century boom in what critics call “prestige TV,” during which the onetime “vast wasteland” (as Federal Communications...
Minutes? Hours? Who Needs Them? We Need A New Time Measure
Weeks, days, hours, minutes—especially minutes—are just more mechanisms for keeping humans in thrall ultimately based on astronomy, astrology’s lesser sibling. In the globalized information...
Department Of Untruths: Careful Who You Call A Liar
We should hesitate to call someone a liar because we are not privy to other people’s motives or states of mind. That a statement...
Should Readers Be Allowed To Return E-Books Even After They’ve Read Them?
This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to a TikTok trend whereby some readers have been posting videos about doing just that, even...
David Mamet Returns To Broadway, Politics In Tow
He wrote last year on the website UnHerd that he had been “elected a non-person by the Left many years ago,” and added: “It’s uncomfortable, and...
Peter Gelb On Canceling Putin
In the past, even when political tensions between nations grew ugly, artistic endeavors rose above the din. But Putin’s murderous actions are the playbook...
What Manner Of Beast, This BBC?
For historians the BBC represents both a fantasy object and a Borgesian nightmare. As an organisation, it has been one of the great record-keeping bureaucracies in...
Seattle Arts Organizations Come Out Of The Pandemic With New Support Models
“You truly know exactly the kind of organization you’re funding through this model, as well as how big of an impact you actually make.”...
Time Out London To Quit Its Print Magazine
The magazine began life in 1968, peaked in the late 1990s, but has seen numbers dwindling since changes to the publishing business as a...
Did Movies Really Become The World’s Dominant Art Form In The 20th Century?
LACMA is telling us that movies toppled painting and sculpture to became last century’s “greatest art form”? Hollywood is no slouch in the grandiosity...
Library Of Congress Picks Recordings To Preserve
The list usually includes what the LOC calls "sounds of history," and this year, those selections include the complete presidential speeches of President Franklin...
2000 Irish Artists To Get Basic Incomes
“It is recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society. It also places a value on the time...
Margaret Atwood: Feelings As Explanation, Not Excuse
Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not...
Hollywood Shoots Record Number Of Productions In Canada In 2021
They made a record volume of productions here between March 2020 and April 2021 worth $5.27 billion. Canada’s homegrown film and TV industry also...
Designing Ukraine Refugee Shelters That Are Livable
The Paper Partition System (PPS) is quickly and easily constructed using cardboard tubes as structure and textiles as partitions. One unit takes approximately five...
