Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Comparing The 233 Surviving Copies Of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Fascinating Differences)
None of the folios were identical; sometimes a letter or word would be different, evidence of the typesetter at William Jaggard’s London printshop tinkering...
Obsolete? Schools Are Getting Rid Of Their Librarians (But Here’s What’s Being Lost)
Some K-12 decision makers perceive school librarians as little more than quaint remnants of a bygone era. And if the number of our nation's...
African Art Is Prospering, Powered By Social Media
Today, for the booming young population of Africa and its diaspora, the relationship is more direct. There’s a reciprocity of inspiration, fueled by a multitude of...
Why Is New Zealand’s Creative Economy Growing Faster Than National GDP?
"It’s heartening to see the strong GDP growth in the arts and creative sector over the past year despite the ongoing challenges from the...
Learning From Dancing Robots
Choreography is a way to start conversations about how bodies make meaning, whose bodies matter, how bodies interface with technologies. Dance is a way...
Want To Understand The Media Revolution? Take a Look At This 2018 Story About...
With all its decades of episodes, well-known characters, and worldwide brand recognition, Sesame Street has more than 5 billion views on YouTube. That’s impressive, but ChuChu...
What The Vegas Sphere Says About Our Relationship With Art
The Sphere is a distillation of an evolving relationship among art, artist, and technology—somewhere between a warm embrace of and a final surrender to...
But Tattooing A Scannable Barcode Of Your Favorite Song On Spotify Seemed Like Such...
A growing cadre of music fans have joined the Spotify tattoo craze as a conversation starter or a way to commemorate sentimental favorites like...
He Thought He Had Stumbled Into Owning A Chuck Close Painting. Then He Tried...
The auctioneer started the bidding at $40,000. Mr. Herman perked up. The camera crew leaned in. Then: crickets. By 1:32, with no live bids,...
I’m A Teacher. How I Went From Fighting AI To Using It To Help...
Redesigning assignments to force students to go back and critique, fact-check, and evaluate AI tools may also give them pause the next time they...
After Criticism, New Zealand Arts Funder Creates New Funding Model
After conceding the heavily criticised Arts Grants and Annual Arts Grants models (as well as the universally unpopular application cap structure) were no longer...
Why Logic Won’t Save You
Except for a few special cases, logic can’t tell you whether the premises or conclusion of an argument are true. - Aeon
National Book Awards Loses Sponsors Over Speech Fears
Rumors that authors would take a stand regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict during the ceremony were flying in the days leading up to the event,...
Vandal Attacks National Gallery In DC
In an email, National Gallery spokesperson Anabeth Guthrie said a member of the climate activist group Declare Emergency vandalized a wall in the West...
OMG – Did Streaming Just Turn Into Cable TV?
You need to take a hard look at whether these offers are really a bargain or if this is the slippery slope to paying...
The “Robin Hood” Fund Embedded In The New Actors Contract With Studios
SAG president Fran Drescher wanted a fund over which SAG had broad discretion to redistribute money among its members. “She wanted her Robin Hood...
Problematic: Dismissing Ideas By Calling Them “Problematic”
In ordinary conversation, social media, and even mass-media and academic publications it has now become routine to come across the claim that such and...
South Coast Repertory Theatre Loses Its Leader After 44 Years
Paula Tomei is SCR’s first and only managing director, and she steered the Tony-winning institution through many years of growth, transformation and challenges. During...
Want To Know More About Dance? Here Are The Year’s Best Dance Books
Wendy Perron (and friends) take a look at the year's best dance books. - Wendy Perron
Disturbing Trend: Movies That Get Completed But Not Released
Films, it seems, are no longer being seen as works of art – or even as pieces of entertainment. They are being seen as...
Statistical Analysis: What The Largest Dance Companies In America Look Like
In the Largest 50 contemporary and modern companies, there are 30 female artistic directors (56%) and 24 male artistic directors (44%). Whereas, the Largest 50 ballet companies, include...
Can America’s Endangered Post-Modernist Buildings Be Saved?
Significant Postmodern buildings like the Abrams House in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego have already been demolished. Other beloved/reviled examples now await their...
Sarah Bernstein Wins Canada’s $100K Giller Prize
In a statement, the jury said: "The modernist experiment continues to burn incandescently in Sarah Bernstein's slim novel, Study for Obedience. Bernstein asks the indelible question:...
Study: Stereotypes Might Not Influence Us As Much As We Thought
It suggests that the influence that stereotypes can have on spontaneous impressions may not be as strong as previously thought, at least not when...
Humanities In Crisis? Not Really What You Think
More real for the humanities than any “crisis” within is that they, along with the universities that house them, are repeatedly subject to and...
