Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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...
Ancient Australian Rock Art Threatened
These artifacts are 10 times older than the pyramids of Egypt. Dating back tens of thousands of years, this cluster of one million images on...
Cities Not Working? Why Not Build New Ones?
At first blush, it might seem obvious. But history is full of failed, unfinished or underperforming scratch-built city projects, in California and elsewhere, and more are in the pipeline. - Bloomberg
Broadway Box Office Stays Steady
In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the...
Report: Pre-K School Causes Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Harm
Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. -...
Police Play Copyrighted Music To Thwart Viral Video
Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social...
How Poetry Can Aid Science
When done properly, poetry can help to make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Not just as a box-ticking exercise because making sure all...
Nicolas Berggruen And His Ideas
e established the Berggruen Institute. A prolific networker, Berggruen has recruited so many prominent names to the institute’s roster of supporters and advisers that...
What Happened When Researchers Paid Fox News Watchers To Watch CNN Instead
Two political scientists paid a group of regular Fox News viewers to instead watch CNN for a month. At the end of the period, the researchers...
The Age Of Cultural Dopes
A cultural dope is someone like me or you, a consumer of culture or a “creative content provider” who produces, or consumes, the preexisting...
The Wages Of Information
We have established a culture that expects us to have opinions on everything, and even rewards us for unexpected and implausible ones. Those of...
This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
Four artists—including three women and one non-binary artist of diverse age ranges, racial and cultural backgrounds—have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, Tate...
The Woman Who Would Bring Stability To LA’s MoCA
The remarkable rate of leadership churn is widely seen as having hurt MOCA’s credibility with donors, artists and the public at a time when...
We Thought War Was Over For The Modern World. Now We Have To Rethink
Russia’s assault on Ukraine is shocking, therefore, not only for its violence, but for the fact that it reopens the question of war as...
Why Computers Will Never Think Like Us
Human consciousness, in other words, in part consists of understanding abstract and indirect meanings. And it is precisely this sort of understanding that artificial intelligence...
What NFTs Have To Do With Dance
The disparities between the dance and tech communities can seem pretty vast, yet the two have found an odd, contemporary synergy in NFTs: non-fungible...
Why America’s Teens Are Depressed
Almost every measure of mental health is getting worse, for every teenage demographic, and it’s happening all across the country. Since 2009, sadness and...
Who Gets To Tell History?
History writing is based on the faith that events, despite appearances, don’t happen higgledy-piggledy—that although individuals can act irrationally, change can be explained rationally. -...
Can The BBC Survive Its Government Overlords?
The BBC will always be stuck in the complex embrace of the British state. The corporation operates under a royal charter, which is updated...
Museums Are Using Virtual Reality To Preserve Holocaust Testimonies
For example, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, you can slip on a virtual reality headset and enter the world of survivor...
The Ancients Had A Better Way Of Removing Monuments They No Longer Honored
The ancient Romans are even more famed for the deliberate destruction of images, thanks to their habit, dubbed damnatio memoriae by modern scholars, of destroying all portraits of...
Time To Do Away With The Scientific Paper?
This system comes with big problems. Chief among them is the issue of publication bias: reviewers and editors are more likely to give a scientific...
Are You Gaslighting, Correctly?
Although in most cases the word serves to expose implicit power dynamics and level the playing field, it can also be used to do...
America Is Living In A Uniquely Stupid Time
It’s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. It’s a metaphor for what...
