Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What It’s Like To Spend Your Life In Translation
To spend a lot of time with your head in dictionaries is to understand the extent to which your head is made up of...
What Cancer Therapy Is Teaching Us About The Vast Complexity Of The Human Condition
How can immunotherapy cure a 65-year-old, newly retired man of Stage IV lung cancer, restoring the promise of his golden years with his family,...
How Does Activist Art Fit In The Big Business Of Art Selling?
Can activism thrive within the strip-lit booths of essentially glorified trade shows? And does the commodification of protest art render its radical impulses null...
We Need A New Conversation About Music Powered By AI
We begin with the hypothesis that, due to the rate of growth and development of A.I. technology, #resistanceisfutile. Which is to say that computer-composed...
Guardian Readers Choose Their Favorite Modern Architecture
Buildings with plenty of personality - The Guardian
Greek Movie Composer Vangelis, 79
He won an Oscar for the stirring score to 1981's Chariots of Fire, which was followed by Blade Runner a year later. Paying tribute,...
How Toronto Movie Theatres Survived COVID
“We had a few fully-masked concerts. We did livestreaming. We had a couple of adverts filmed here. We sold takeout meal kits when we...
How Color Repeatedly Surprises Us
For some philosophers, the experience of color is most similar to that of pain: an internal state that resists quantification. But who wouldn’t rather...
Somehow The Internet Went Wrong. We Could Fix It
Many of us find ourselves in the alienating position of using (even relying on) technology companies we distrust and hate, knowing that they are...
This Year’s Tonys – A Cry For Normalcy
At the end of a bumpy Broadway season that started late and was repeatedly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the once-ordinary rituals of Tonys time have...
Classics? How Do We Define Them?
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25...
Love Wordle? Well, Here’s Artle
A new game, Artle, launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts...
The Einstein Franchise – Rapacious And Wealthy
Einstein had been a well-paid man. His Princeton salary of $10,000 – roughly $180,000 in today’s money – was set by the university to...
Dallas’ ATT Performing Arts Center Picks a New Director
Warren Tranquada, comes to Dallas from Newark, N.J., where for 13 years he has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the...
Archaeologists Find 4,300-Year-old Egyptian Tomb
Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser,...
How To Make Good Ideas Successful In Teams
The ideas that made it shared a process we came to call “voice cultivation”: the collective, social process through which employees help lower-power team...
Fascinating: Who’s Rich In America And What They Do
Comparing data from the appendix of the economists’ study with data from the SUSB Annual Data Tables put out by the Census Bureau, I...
Why Prosperity Doesn’t Make You Happy
True liberal education is the place where restless hearts can become discerning, and where the closed self can become an open soul. It is...
The Fracturing Of Antagonistic Criticism
The bourgeois public sphere was always limited. And there are forms of fracturing and dispersal that have completely eroded the already fragile prominence of...
Have NFTs Busted? Not Really
An NFT has value because the buyer and their community believe it has value—which is true for all art and collectibles. And as time...
The Case For Government Investment In The Arts
Does it register, for example, that for every $1 billion turned over in the arts, around 4,300 new jobs are created? Compared to the construction industry...
Indianapolis Museum Newfields Gets a New Director
Colette Pierce Burnette, who is originally from Cleveland, is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. - Indianapolis Star
Are You Still You If You’ve Gone Through A Transformational Experience?
What if a disease transforms your mind, impairing your memory or causing radical personality change? Would this new ‘you’ be a different person entirely...
An Art Consultant Talks About The Chaotic State Of The Art Market
Today, it’s quite confusing. Certain auction houses are mimicking the collectibles market. Everything is a tchotchke to flip. You have sneakers, dinosaur bones, some...
Scientists Want To Know Which Problems Are Too Difficult
Computer scientists want to know whether all the problems we hope to solve can be solved efficiently, in a reasonable amount of time —...