Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Translating Language Opens A Writer’s Mind
In translating, you pose yourself a question—or it is posed to you by the text; you have no satisfactory answer, though you put something...
San Jose Opera Picks A New General Director
Shawna Lucey has some 15 years of opera and theater experience, having worked at such companies as Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Gran...
Why Is A New Moscow Museum Recreating An American Soap Opera?
Every day through March 22, 2022, a team of 80 actors and technicians is carrying out the vision of the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar...
The 13-Year-Old Who’s Become Famous For His Car Pictures
The Woodinville eighth-grader has made a name for himself in the art of “forced perspective” photography, a technique that creates an optical illusion by...
Why The Music They Play While You’re On Hold Is So Infuriating
So where did hold music, the most vanilla of genres, go wrong? When experts have spent decades crafting tinkling tones to placate us, why...
The Collapse Of NeoLiberalism
The challenge for the neoliberals was—how do you design institutions that safeguard the rights of property over borders, in an era when everyone is...
Have We Forgotten The Art Of Listening?
Being able to engage in the practice of mindful, aesthetic and critical listening is as important to democracy as literacy. Yet, in comparison to...
Perplexed Publishers: Social Media Followings Don’t Translate To Book Sales
Followings can affect who gets a book deal and how big an advance that author is paid, especially when it comes to nonfiction. But...
UK Broadcasters Pledge To Go BAME-less
The catch-all description for black, Asian and minority ethnic people will be ditched in favour of the use of more specific terms to describe...
An Irish Plan To Break The Record For Most Nationalities In A Choir
At time of writing, 77 countries have registered. A total of 109 are needed to break the record. But “where better”, asks Brophy, “to...
New TV Network Seeks To Narrow Definition Of America
Americana. American traditions. Safe storytelling. It’s the coded language the network uses about its content, as much as the content itself, that reveals its underlying...
Science: Why Doing Nothing Is Essential To Creativity
The default mode network is also known as the imagination network. This is the brain’s resting-state circuitry—the regions that come online when you’re not...
Can Virtual Reality Fix Work?
It’s easy to virtually collaborate. The hard part, of course, is convincing people that, when it comes to their regular work, staring through Fresnel...
Do Anything But Be A Writer…
The aspiring writers imagine that being an author will bring them happiness, fame and fortune. Szymborska tells them to get a grip. Writing is...
Now That They’ve Done It, Should Book Fairs Be Virtual?
While fairs give you the opportunity to bring your books to the attention of editors and scouts, they are also overwhelmed with choice, so...
Yes, Your Sense Of Wellbeing Comes From Your Gut
Everything changes around you, but your internal organs are always there, always broadcasting signals to the brain, always playing their thorough bass in the...
“Nutcracker” Is So Yesterday. Meet “Graham Cracker”
In this version, Clara tries to get her hands on a coveted s’more during a holiday bonfire. She successfully sneaks one away, soon slipping...
Genre-Bending Opera Wins $100,000 Grawemeyer Award
The work — a subversive blurring of genre, time and politics reflecting on how little has changed over the centuries, yet how much change...
How Crowdfunding Is Helping Indie Bookstores
“There’s been a groundswell of support for indie bookshops. I’m very open and honest online about what it is like to run a bookshop...
Actor Declares Himself A Non-Profit
"There was something quite liberating about going, alright, I'll put large amounts of money into this or that, because I'll be able to earn...
Take Care Of Yourself — It’s Now An Industry
Self-care might be thought of as the newest form of the art of living well, the understanding of a good life that exists in...
Why Innovation In Education Is So Difficult
Is it that much easier for the average 5-year old to sit still for hours on end and listen to a teacher talk in...
The Best Books About Dance In 2021
By chance, this year unleashed a profusion of memoirs about Balanchine and New York City Ballet. This ever-present magnet in our field is counter-balanced...
The Best Theatre Of A (Weird) 2021
If theater matters differently than television and film it’s not just because you have to leave your home to be part of it, but...
How “Web3” May Change Value In The Arts
The NFT confers public proof of ownership and authenticity of an item, which may or may not include copyright — just as in the...
