Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Best Buy On The Leading Edge: Will (Finally) Stop Selling DVDs
“To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” a Best Buy...
Coming To A Mall Near You: Bricks-And-Mortar Netflix Stores
The stores will sell merchandise based on hit Netflix shows, so you can finally snag that Lincoln Lawyer coffee mug you’ve always dreamed of. - Engadget
Robot Fido Scours Pompeii And Finds Work As Tour Guide
After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of...
The Rewards Of Learning To Love More Complicated Music
When repeated listenings do deliver, the satisfaction can be deeper than the feeling the easier kind of music brings, at least for me. - The...
Vancouver Opera Gets A New Artistic Director
In February of this year, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal named Jacques Lacombe its new artistic director and principal conductor. - Stir
FTC Wants To Go After Junk Fees (Including On Tickets)
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement that “by hiding the total price, these junk fees make it harder for consumers to shop for the...
Report: Teens Are Now Spending More Time On YouTube Than Netflix
Time on YouTube rose since the spring, adding nearly a percentage point, while Netflix fell more than two percentage points. - CNBC
How Images Are Shaping The Middle East War Narrative
In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or...
Norway’s Biggest Newspaper Is Using An AI Voice To Read Its Stories (And Finding...
Comparing the number of unique listeners of Aftenposten’s podcasts with those who have used the AI-generated listen-to option on its text articles, the publisher...
Short Films Have A Category Problem
A feature-length film, according to the Academy, is anything over 40 minutes. But that has little to do with the length attributed to most movies. It’s...
This City In Arizona Is Carless. It Changes The Way People Live
“It is amazing how much the urbanism improves, both in terms of experience and efficiency, when you don’t need to store automobiles.” - The...
Fluxus: An Art Aesthetic For Our Time?
Its practitioners, mostly in big cities in the U.S., Germany and Japan, attempted to dethrone art by putting its enactment in the hands of...
Hi, My Name Is Paul. I’m An Audiobook Addict
The audiobook’s ascent into full-blown aesthetic autonomy came with the arrival of the iPod and its MP3 file format in 2001, and, as of...
A Theory On Who Banksy Is
At one time, there was one Banksy who had a graffiti career and a famous “beef” in the subculture with London graffiti legend Robbo. That...
As Canadian Museums Try To Decolonize, Turmoil Ascends
“To a certain extent, all museums are colonial constructions, and some people have argued that true decolonization would require shutting down every single museum...
Branding Your Literary Favorites
Is it the ultimate pairing of the lowbrow (baseball cap) and the highbrow (literature)? Or is it wearing books as one might wear cult...
How Theatre Schools Are Adapting To The Future
Drama school leaders are at the sharp end: the issues experienced by the wider theatre sector often land first in drama schools, in raw,...
Is The Non-Profit Model Unsustainable For The Arts Today?
As the nonprofit world shrivels in importance, mass media consolidates and grows more influential, and its stars grow ever more powerful, as the economic...
The UK Has 1,500 Micro-Cinemas Happily Serving Up Movies
The UK now has 1,500 volunteer-run venues, according to Jaq Chell, CEO of the charity Cinema for All, which supports them with everything from...
Where Our Brains Save Different Kinds Of Memories
"Each time an experience is recalled, there are changes in the connection weights of the network, causing memory elements to get more averaged out....
Why So Many People Feel They’re Stuck In BS Jobs
Simon Walo estimated that 19 per cent of people in the United States believe their jobs are ‘bullshit’ and, for the most part, working in one...
Portland Art Museum Got Rid Of Its Volunteer Docents. Was There A Problem?
Does reflecting the communities they serve mean reducing the role of senior white women, who made up a large proportion of the docent council?...
Is The Internet Less Fun Now?
The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be...
Has The Internet Been Abandoned To Bots?
Under your nose, the Internet of real people has gradually shifted into a digital world of shadow puppets. They look like people, they act...
Why Literary Fiction Might Be Dead
Literary fiction might be dead. More precisely, what might have died is literary fiction as a meaningful category in publishing and bookselling. - The Nation
