Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why We Work Too Much
The ubiquity of overwork is a serious obstacle for many of the ideas about how we might reshape our professional lives in the months...
Disney Doesn’t Want Frank Oz To Make Muppets Anymore
“They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in,” he continued. Just how...
What You Say You Know…
As near as I can figure, when I claim to know something, I am only announcing to myself or to others that henceforth I...
China Restricts Kids’ Video Game-Playing
Gamers aged below 18 will be limited to one hour of online game play, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and...
The Fate Of Artists And Culture Workers Under The Taliban
A vibrant, educated, outward-looking civil society formed, and many Afghans facing Taliban 2.0 have no memory of the shockingly brutal Taliban regime that fell...
Attempts To Fix A Mies van der Rohe Masterpiece – A Disaster As A...
As a museum, it has always been a disaster. Ever since it opened, the New National Gallery has been dogged by cracking windows, heavy...
A Genre Of Books Promises To make You Smarter. True?
Most of the time, thinking sounds like hard work, but add “smart” to the front and it sounds more attractive: hipsterishly mid-Atlantic, vaguely technological...
The Thriving Book Community On TikTok
BookTok is a hashtag on TikTok, where readers post videos of book recommendations, talk about writing novels and make reading-related jokes. The hashtag...
The Societal Benefits Of Public Nudity
According to a series of surveys conducted by researchers at the University of London, not only did those who engaged in naturism have higher...
Rite Of Passage: Now There Are Academic Citations For TikTok
The iconic MLA Handbook has added an entry for TikTok, so Noam Chomsky 2.0s, who need to cite videos from the social media powerhouse,...
Why We Need Poetry Right Now
Indeed, in our age of social media, words are often used as weapons. Poetry instead treats words with care. - The New York Times
Why Artists Need Mentors
Many times when teaching, (especially dance criticism or dance history) I find that many people do not know important and influential dancers, teachers or...
Is There Too Much Music?
he source of discovery is the last 70 years of music. It's all brand new, right now. So you're competing with every song that...
The End Of Fans?
At this tumultuous moment, I think we each have to decide for ourselves which pieces of art to keep, and which to throw out....
Famed Music School Falls Silent As Taliban Take Afghanistan
"The students are very fearful about their future - not just of their education and their programme, but also about their life. They...
America’s Founding Colonial Stories Are Nice Fairy Tales. The Reality Was Less Flattering
The political leaders and famous personages that tower over our imaginations are condensed to life-size. They make grubby, horrid choices; they bumble, fumble, and...
The Quiet Value Behind The Enduring Success Of “Antiques Roadshow”
In a show whose segments are punctuated by dollar amounts, there’s actually a quiet, persistent suggestion to direct our aspirations somewhere else: history, family,...
Our Misperceptions Of How The Brain Works
“Scientists have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other everyday experiences." But these "are poor guides for understanding...
How The Counterculture Became The Main Culture
It’s a truism that high culture, as it used to be known, has been steadily losing its authority since the rise of mass culture...
How Publishing Literature Has Changed
Most authors have day jobs, which is nothing new; Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector. The difference in 2021 is that traditional side...
Data Science: The Creepiest, Most Ominous Word In Macbeth
It turns out that Macbeth uncanny flavor springs from the unusual way that Shakespeare deploys one particular word, over and over again. - OneZero
Was The Nuclear Family As Our Primary Social Unit A Mistake?
If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life...
How Finland Gets Support For The Arts? Make Politicians Museum Interns
During the internship day, decision-makers will familiarise them them with the workspaces of museum professionals, the researchers' rooms, archives and, for example, the reception...
Famous Writers Writing Books That Won’t Be Read For 100 Years
The works will be kept in a room lined with wood from the forest in the Deichman library in Oslo. One hundred years after...
A New Canon Of Climate Change Literature
It's part of a growing trend in publishing for books focused on the climate, whether from big hitters such as David Attenborough or Bill...
