Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Does Embracing Local Customs Increase Immigrants’ Sense Of Belonging?
Does adhering to the ‘rules’ of a new home, ie embracing a new way of life, itself produce that much-needed sense of belonging? Does adopting...
US Copyright Office Clarifies Royalty Rights On Streaming
The rule clarifies that songwriters are entitled to collect mechanical royalties generated from streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Amazon after their termination rights have been invoked (i.e.,...
What Role Should AI Have In Teaching?
As more tools proliferate and their capabilities keep improving, relatively few observers believe education can remain AI free. At the same time, even the...
Why Academics Are Irritated By Jonathan Haidt
Haidt is like the friend who tells you you’re overreacting before you’re ready to hear it. And he fulfils that role with the glee...
Music Albums Went Away for Streaming. Now They’re Back
The shift to consuming songs as atomised units was depressing for artists too. Cynically, there’s the financial hit sustained when you only get paid...
What Is A “PoetJournalist?”
Where a photojournalist trades in photographs, a poetjournalist, according to Dworkin, would trade in “newspoems.” He could think of a few examples from the...
How High Ticket Prices Are Changing Theatre On London’s West End
It’s not just fans who are angry. Theatre’s biggest stars regularly rail against high ticket prices, even though they help pay their salaries. - The...
Five Theatre Colleagues Bonded At The Public Theatre. Now They’re A Significant Force In...
Their convergence at the Public in the mid-2010s would resonate as far more than happy memories: Now each of them has become a Woman...
The South East Asian Film Industry Is Booming
“Covid, and industry issues that impacted Hollywood product flow, have ushered a period of growth for local and regional films, in some cases...
Meet The UK’s Surprise New Culture Minister
Lisa Nandy, whose most recent position has been as shadow international development minister, will have her work cut out to catch up. She will...
Why Your Brain Needs Other People
It seems counterintuitive in the age of neuroscience, but I increasingly think that how cognitively impaired you are is a function of the social...
AI Is Showing Us What’s Similar Among All Lifeforms
Across that chasm of difference between bats and seals, whales and humans, the unlikeliest new intelligence of computers have been able to discover more...
New York’s First Immersive Art Space Takes A Pause On Art
Located at the historic Emigrant Savings Bank building in Manhattan’s Financial District, the HdL has begun hosting non-art events, including puppy yoga, pilates, and...
The Words We Make Up When We Can’t Remember The Right Ones
Apparently, the struggle to find the right word is real and has been for some time, because the Oxford English Dictionary has its own...
What Defines “Genius” Teams
First, each team member — no exceptions — brings an outstanding capability that complements the capabilities of other team members. Top percentile analytical capacity...
Major French Festival Puts Theatre Voices From Elsewhere On Stage
As the first week of the festival unfolded, the spotlight shone repeatedly on amateurs and artists from countries rarely represented on the biggest European...
Ira Glass On Radio, Podcasting, And Keeping “This American Life” Fresh
I think a lot of my aesthetics were shaped by the Broadway shows that my mom took us to in Baltimore. Those old-school shows...
After A Long Career In Academia, I Leave Discouraged
I leave elite academe with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982. Watching the travails of...
How To Tell If AI Wrote Something? It Uses Certain Words, Expressions
By taking a similar look at "excess word usage" after LLM writing tools became widely available in late 2022, the researchers found that "the appearance...
How Your Brain Decides What To Remember
The brain tags experiences worth remembering by repeatedly sending out sudden and powerful high-frequency brain waves. Known as “sharp wave ripples,” these waves, kicked...
Australia’s Biggest Online Bookseller Files For Protection
Australia’s largest online bookseller announced the move on Wednesday, two weeks after it went into a voluntary suspension of share trading. - The Guardian
Improbably, A Brilliant Park Rises In Brooklyn
Finally, a long stretch of nothing happening, of innumerable plans, tradeoffs, controversies, objections, and delays — that whole impasto of New York–style dithering —...
First Ever: Dancers Competing In The Olympics This Summer
Thirty-two dancers total—16 b-boys and 16 b-girls—will compete battle-style in Paris’ Place de la Concorde to sold-out crowds on August 9 and 10. Qualifying competitions have...
Bay Area Arts Institutions Finding Their Ways Back
Although attendance at the city’s arts institutions remains down from prepandemic levels — with tourism, hotel occupancy and office attendance yet to fully recover...
That Was Quick: Starmer Appoints New UK Culture Minister
Prior to yesterday’s UK general election, she was shadow cabinet minister for international development and has previously held shadow cabinet roles in housing, foreign...
