Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Adult Interest In Participating In Ballet Is Soaring
Interest in adult ballet has increased by 75% over the last three to five years... And the number of adult ballet summer intensive programs...
Hollywood Is Stuck In A Nostalgia Rut
The resurrection of dead franchises and the creation of new ones based on recognizable intellectual properties all target one core emotion: nostalgia. Hollywood is...
How Fans Have Taken Control Of Beloved Franchises
The use of parody and humour to pour scorn on the series is a common practice among fans. New digital technologies like artificial intelligence...
Inside Trimpin’s Sound World
“The kind of idea in my work with music dealing with three parameters — timbre, pitch, and time,” said Trimpin. “But my interest...
How You Make Decisions: Going With Your Gut?
"My recent research findings suggest that people are often well-advised to decide intuitively, in terms of how it makes them feel. There is emerging...
Fandom Is Increasingly Becoming A Problem
Fandom has changed over the last decade to become more of a discourse, but while celebs have had to hear more and more of...
Good morning
If you've read ArtsJournal for very long, you know I have a fascination with stories that explore how creativity works. This story from the...
Longtime Houston Ballet Executive Director Steps Down
James Nelson who began his career as a dancer and went on to to serve in a succession of roles with Houston Ballet: company...
Does “The Show Must Go On” Create Unhealthy Workplaces?
Theatre workers across the sector have now described to The Stage how they feel pressure to "power through" all but the most extreme health...
Learning To Appreciate Neurodivergent Reaction To Art
"Listening to you also reminded me of my own adult son, who is autistic. When Ezra was a child, my wife and I sometimes...
Study: Why Public Media Needs More Stable Funding
The CSRL study says most local NPR stations lack the resources to systematically gather and report on local news, and in turn, spend too much of...
Critic Frederic Jameson, 90
For decades, Mr. Jameson’s voluminous work — more than 30 books and edited collections as well as reams of journal articles — has been...
Creative People Prioritize Information Differently Than Others
My work explores the ways in which creative individuals prioritise information differently to their less creative counterparts. In one of our studies, my research collaborators...
Saving The Day: NYCBallet Dancer Subs In During Performance With Four Minutes Notice
In dancer shorthand, this is what’s known as being thrown on. It’s scary sounding, isn’t it? Phelan, on Instagram, wrote that she was given...
How Our Culture Is Being Eroded
Olivier Roy argues that culture in the sense we have understood it is being inexorably eroded. It’s not, as some of his countrymen believe,...
An Alarming Rise In Retractions Of Research Papers
The publication of research papers drives university rankings and career progression, yet the relentless pressure to publish has contributed to an increase in fraudulent...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are today's highlights:
Man Smashes Ai Weiwei Art at Rome Show OpeningA visitor at Ai Weiwei’s Rome exhibition vandalized one of the...
All The Wrong Messages: Oscar Wilde’s Family Condemns New Statue Of Him
Wilde’s grandson said of the sculpture: “It seems to say ‘here is a monument to a man whom society decapitated’. How do we want...
Harry Beck’s Iconic London Underground Map Changed The Way We Look At Networks
“Others had similar ideas, but he was the one who did it. The tube map really is something that deserves to be called iconic:...
Canadian Pianist Wins Leeds International
Jaeden Izik-Dzurko took home the top prize, along with a cash award of roughly $54,000, following his final performance at St. George's Hall in Bradford, about...
Why Is Executive Leadership Of Dance Companies So Difficult?
Unicorns are, unsurprisingly, hard to find. In dance, that’s led to a sort of executive director musical chairs, with some successful executives rotating through...
Man Smashes Ai Weiwei Art At Show Opening In Rome
Footage from CCTV cameras - posted on Ai Weiwei's Instagram account - showed a man vigorously pushing the sculpture over, breaking it and then...
Extreme Candor: Pittsburgh Arts Council Admits Big Failures
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s new strategic plan seems like an exception. With a candor that verges on the self-excoriating, the group’s report announcing...
More Than 10,000 Books Were Banned In The US Last Year
The survey from PEN America suggested that bans of books nearly tripled nationwide, from 3,362 the previous year. - The Guardian
Lawyers Battle Over The Boundaries Of Copyright Law For AI
A DC Circuit panel struggled with both the idea of granting copyright protection for AI-produced works and a computer scientist’s framing of his case...
