Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Mass Culture Gave Rebellion To The Individual
How did we get here, where men who benefit most from our social structures, position themselves as the little guy? This comes from a...
So The Publishing Business Haas Changed. Artists Adapt. They Always Do
At this point, the question of whether conglomeration was good or bad seems largely beside the point. Artists adapt. Artists have always been subject...
Inuit Artist Wins Canada’s Top Visual Art Prize
Kablusiak, who was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and raised in Alberta, has received acclaim for her multidisciplinary practice, which explores issues related to...
Shipwreck Off The Coast Of Colombia Could Be Worth Billions Of Dollars
Footage of the wreck released last year show that the ship’s hull is still in tact. The surrounding sea floor is scattered with gold...
South Carolina Board Of Education Considers “Age Appropriate” Standards To Keep Books Out Of...
The regulation is the latest effort from conservative policymakers to restrict public school students’ access to books covering topics of race, gender identity and...
Increasingly, Pop Artists Are Collaborating With Symphony Orchestras
The interest flows both ways. Not only are performers seeking out orchestras to partner with, but organizations such as the San Francisco Symphony see...
Why Chasing Happiness Can Make You… Unhappy
Happiness is, after all, an abstract idea; there is no objective measure for it available. Many people don’t even know what they really mean...
Amazon, Netflix Back Off Controversial Projects In India
When the U.S. streaming giants, Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video, entered India seven years ago, they promised to shake up one of the world’s...
Pew Study: Where Americans Get Their News
A large majority of U.S. adults (86%) say they often or sometimes get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet, including 56% who say...
MuchMusic Was Canada’s Answer To MTV. Its Demise Says Much About What Happened To...
MuchMusic is often commemorated for its halcyon days, but a proper examination of the decline of media and the dearth of music coverage today...
Siskel And Ebert And The Chemistry Of Being Critics
These fundamental conundrums of criticism involve questions about specialism, authority, personality, art, and business. And, with Siskel and Ebert, these dilemmas came into play...
Are We Headed Into A New Romantic Age?
That’s the world, circa 1800. The new paradigm shocked Europe when it started to spread. Cultural elites had just assumed that science and reason...
Why Are New TVs So Amazingly Cheap? Your Data!
Whatever you’re watching on your smart TV, algorithms are tracking your habits. This influences the ads you see on your TV, yes, but if...
A Use For Empty Downtown Buildings: Universities
I’ll say straight off: It’s not architecture for the ages, but it’s an interesting, high-end model of an urban quad and a good example...
University Finally Opens A New Concert Hall, Just As It Shuts Down Its Music...
“One of the ironies of Brookes history will be that the university will finally offer a proper performance space, at the same time that...
Young Person Goes To Her First Orchestra Concert. This is What She Thought
"I can totally admit that these questions highlight my naivety. But overall I really did enjoy my first experience at the orchestra, and although...
Behold The League Of Live Stream Theatre
The League of Live Stream Theater, the nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing live performances to audiences around the world via livestream, can play a...
Syracuse Opera Suspends Operations
Syracuse Opera board chair Camille Tisdel said ticket sales are down 40-60% from where they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The opera company...
Ticket-Sellers Beware: We’re Coming After Your Junk Fees!
“We know that junk fees resonate with American consumers. They don’t like being taken for suckers,” said Lael Brainard, the director of the White...
Redefining And Redeploying Expertise
The phenomenon is sped by automation, which usurps routine tasks, leaving employees to handle the nonroutine and unanticipated—and the continued advance of which throws...
Stuck In Algorithmic Hell (We Really Know What You Want To See/Hear)
"We used your personal account in a recent brainstorming meeting as an example of why Netflix should start charging for screen time instead of...
How Digital Celebrity Works
The open infrastructure of the Internet allowed ordinary people to reach a level of renown once reserved for politicians or Hollywood starlets. These newly...
Why Activism Leads To So Much Bad Art
"During the past decade, politics has intruded on daily American life more than at any time since the 1960s; in the same period, technology...
The Making Of Puzzle Master Will Shortz
With a 15-year stint as the editor of Games magazine, his founding of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a 30-year tenure at The Times...
Precipitous Drop In Students Studying Foreign Languages
Even though we live in an increasingly globalized world, the number of college students taking languages is rapidly falling. - The Conversation