Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Seamus Heaney On How To Use Dictionaries
"I don’t begin with the idea of plundering the word for meanings; it’s rather a discovery, a saving grace, something that clinches or copes....
What Happened To Mall Culture?
What killed them wasn’t just online shopping or big box stores, but a broader cultural shift. Malls succeeded by catering to different groups, from...
Singapore’s Art Market Rises As Hong Kong Recedes
The tide seems to be turning in the city’s favor, in part, due to a general migration across the region to Singapore because of...
America’s Ten Most Influential Buildings
Dezeen asked 10 American architects, including American Institute of Architects (AIA) president-elect Kimberly Dowdell and veteran New York architect Robert AM Stern, to name the US building...
That Seems… So Normal. But Who Defines Normal?
How does such a tiny group dominate what we think of as normality? With meticulous research, Sarah Chaney traces the history of such narratives...
How To Sort Out Cultural Appropriation From Appreciation
The type of cultural appropriation we need to be vigilant about is fairly simple. It occurs when members of a dominant culture – for...
The End of Social Media As We Know It
“Mark last week as the end of the social networking era, which began with the rise of Friendster in 2003, shaped two decades of...
Has Our Thinking Become Binary Like Our Machines?
The machine world is a binary world, and it strikes me that we have learned to apply those zeroes and ones to our thinking,...
Marvel Comics Have Become Penguin Classics
Last month, the “leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world” released, in collaboration with Marvel, three volumes from what's being called the “Penguin...
What A Recent Scandal Reveals About Academic Research
Most suspect work is left to fester in the literature. When corrections do appear, they may be slow to be acknowledged; even retracted papers can...
Do We Have To Be Ruled By Algorithms?
Resisting the rule of the algorithm takes energy and creativity and courage, and the risk for our culture is that our technological skill and...
Crazy? Saudi Arabia Plans 100-Mile-Long Mirrored Mega-City Clad In Mirrors
According to the Saudis, artificial intelligence will be central to how people live in the 500-metre-high, 200-metre-wide structure, a car-free, carbon neutral bubble that...
A Worldwide Movement To Make Public Transit Free
Public transport should be considered a human right, alongside access to health and education. It’s necessary to life in a city. “Public transport is an...
What To Make Of The Denver Art Museum’s Makeover
The Denver Art Museum’s Ponti-designed fortress is by no means a perfect building — or even a great building. It has variously been described...
Netflix Sues Creators Of Bridgerton Musical
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the songwriting team behind the project, initially developed the musical on social media. The duo went on to score the No....
Trial Over Books Mega-Merger Begins Monday
The Biden administration sued to block the $2.18 billion sale as part of its new and more aggressive stance against corporate consolidation. The trial will start on Monday....
Thousands Of Persecuted Afghan Artists Still Struggling To Flee
According to AFI, some 3,000 artists have asked the organization to help them leave Afghanistan or neighboring countries to which they've fled. - NPR
How TikTok Is Vanquishing Facebook And Twitter
Pseudo-monopolies of this type cannot last forever. The past decade has been good for these social-media giants, but the sudden ascent of TikTok might...
Retiring Mellon Funder Susan Feder Talks With Marc Scorca
"It's being open-minded, it's listening. It's not thinking you have all the answers and being open to new experiences." - Opera America
Wanna Job In Hollywood? There’s Now An App For That
It’s hard enough to find top-tier showrunners, editors and cinematographers. But less obvious roles are equally difficult to fill. Need a good production accountant?...
How Dancers Take Care Of Their Feet
Barring debilitating pain, dancers typically can’t stop working because of aching or blistered feet. They face foot issues every day, from relentless physical demands...
All Done: For “Inexplicable Reasons” Mockingbird Won’t Return To Broadway
Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher emailed the play’s cast and crew late Thursday to inform them of the decision, and they blamed the original...
Inside The Bitter Battle Over Dividing Streaming Revenue
This uneven division of the revenue was originally calculated to account for the expenses that labels incurred in the manufacture and distribution of vinyl,...
Ibram X Kendi’s Binaries On Race
If you have read one Kendi book, you have read them all. And whether one agrees or disagrees with his arguments, they are the...
Decline of The Glossy Magazine
With the churn of digital publishing pushing magazines into the financial and cultural doldrums, the luster of the legacy media job has only gotten...