Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Norman Lear Is 100 Today. He Reflects On Archie Bunker And Today’s Politics
"It is remarkable to consider that television — the medium for which I am most well-known — did not even exist when I was...
Bait And Switch: Moshe Safdie Designed A Huge Development For Toronto. Then He Was...
For a year, Mr. Safdie was the public face of a building project over the rail corridor in the middle of Toronto’s downtown. This...
Two Louvre Archaeologists Questioned In Widening Art-Trade Scandal
Jean-François Charnier and Noëmi Daucé are suspected of ignoring warnings about the questionable provenance of at least two allegedly stolen Egyptian antiquities worth millions,...
Ukrainian Artists In Occupied Ukraine Document The War
When it became too dangerous to meet in person, the artists continued to work individually. Some have since escaped the city but others remain,...
TicketMaster Dynamic Ticket Pricing Has Springsteen Fans Crying Foul ($5,000?)
To be clear, no scalpers were selling those tickets. Instead, a new definition of face value had emerged, one that many fans had never...
Quebec’s Plan To Help Theatres Rebuild After COVID
The challenge for larger companies like Stratford, which depend heavily on earned revenue, is how to afford to operate at partial attendance as they...
Julius Eastman Is Finally Getting His Moment
Julius Eastman: the fierce black queen iconoclast, scorned and consigned to oblivion in his day, is finally being celebrated for his unabashed talent and...
Is America Ready For Arab Pop Music?
From Timbaland to Sting to the next rapper to say inshallah, Arab culture has been a persistent influence on American music. But songs actually in Arabic have never...
Growth Of The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Today, they comprise the third largest sector of the U.S. economy: well over 1.5 million nonprofits employ roughly 12.5 million people as of 2017, the latest...
Oh Yes, Medieval Europe Was Chock-a-Block Full Of Conspiracy Theories
This process transformed improbable rumors into seemingly solid facts, backed by evidence from different sources and accepted by political and religious leaders. - Lapham's Quarterly
Why Has Our Aesthetic Choice Been Captured By Algorithms?
Why can it feel as though the entire ecosystem of content that we interact with online has been engineered to influence us in ways...
Do We Overrate Human Intelligence?
We humans are besotted by intelligence, especially our own. And yet “intelligence is not the miracle of evolution we like to think it is. -...
Russian Culture Has Been Canceled In Russia
The Putin regime has dealt Russian culture a crushing blow, just as the Russian state has done to its artists, musicians, and writers so...
We Live In The Age Of The Constant High
We need not consume drugs or get inebriated to be met on a daily basis with sights and behaviours to which the only reasonable...
Experiencing History Of A Place Through Augmented Reality
The project aimed to invite Nottingham’s citizens and tourists to experience and interact with the historical roots of the city through virtual archaeology, using...
So What, Exactly, Is Culture?
To fully understand a culture it’s necessary to get to know the specific patterns of life within it, and these can’t be captured by...
Earthquake: France Eliminates Viewer License Fee For State Broadcasters
Many in France are concerned that broadcasters will now rely on a government grant from VAT receipts instead of a tax levied on households....
The Best New Theatre Building In Years
What makes the Patterson the best new theater I’ve seen in years is the clear prioritization of the theater itself, which sits like a...
Film Music Concerts Have Become Big Business For Symphony Orchestras
They provide an entry point for film enthusiasts to appreciate the power of a live orchestra, which can enhance the emotion and excitement of...
How Did Wellness Become A Commodity For The Wealthy?
For less-privileged others, wellness is an unattainable luxury, gatekept by racism, ableism and fatphobia, and thus cordoned off from those who need it most,...
How The TikTok Remix Brands As Genuine For Gen Zers
Olivia Rodrigo’s brilliance lies in her use of TikTok as a tool to present her celebrity image as authentic to a young, global audience....
The End Of Individual Authorship?
Authorship as we know it — that is, singular, capital-A Authority — will become narratively obsolete. It won’t die, or disappear, but merely get...
Being Cheerful Went Out Of Fashion In The Late 20th Century. How To Get...
In Adorno’s stricken 20th century, ‘any gaiety in art’ implied ‘an avoidance of the pain of history’. Good cheer had withered into a fake...
Digital Concert Programs Are Replacing The Program Book
As anyone who has attended concerts or stage performances over the past year can tell you, digital programs are increasingly sprouting up as the...
What Makes A Great Bookstore (And No, Don’t Smell The Books!)
There is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, “Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.”...