Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Big Data “Nudges” Our Decisions
The combination of Big Data and the success of nudging could thus be conceived of not only as aid to our decision-making, but also...
How Ukraine Is Protecting The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense granted special permission for the male musicians to leave the country, calculating that the world will be more motivated...
What’s Happened To Fundraising Costs In The Pandemic
Whereas fundraising efforts in 2019 raised $6.22 for every fundraising dollar spent, return on fundraising increased to $7.35 in 2020, driven mostly by fundraising...
How American Discourse Got To Be So Stupid
We all know what we're doing in a classroom; we're putting on a class and we all share the same script as to what...
Stephen Colbert Will Chair New 15-Member Board Of Stars Advising Second City Theatre
Colbert, who performed at the Old Town theater in the 1990s, will chair the board. He said in a statement Monday that his recruits...
Dr. Seuss Decides To IPO
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is one of the most prized collections of intellectual property in the world, and nearly every major Hollywood heavyweight is likely...
What This Year’s Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway
So we’re back to normal, right? Not exactly. Broadway remains an economic conundrum and a contested cultural question. - Los Angeles Times
How You Know When You’ve Entered A “Real” Bookstore
While authors can be colorful, book dealers are often notably cranky and eccentric. One conducting business in fashionable Cecil Court put up a sign...
A New And Thriving Genre Of AI-Generated Poetry
Dozens of websites, with names like Poetry Ninja or Bored Human, can now generate poems with a click of a key. One tool is...
Auction Of Justice Ginsburg Memorabilia Raises Big Bucks For Opera
All told, an online auction of 150 of items owned by the late justice raised $803,650 for Washington National Opera, one of the late...
Canada Gets Its First National Jazz Orchestra
The aim is for the orchestra to tour not only across Canada, but internationally, to show the world what Canadian jazz musicians, composers and...
How The Ukraine War Has Re-Energized How Britain Thinks Of Itself
Truss’s central idea is that the West has grown complacent since the end of the Cold War, because of a spiritual crisis in which...
Digesting The Tonys: The Surprises And The Overlooked
The nominators spread out their admiration quite widely: Of the 34 shows eligible for nominations, 29 got at least one nod, including the critically...
The Song That’s Uniting India And Pakistan
The song is stealthily subversive: a traditional raga—the classical Indian framework for musical improvisation—has been laid over an infectious beat that sounds South Asian,...
How To Explain The Allure Of Conspiracy Theories? (The New Books)
The conspiracy theorist’s dogmatism often distracts from the objects of his skepticism, and it is the latter that I believe are more revealing. The...
Why (And How) TikTok Is Dangerous
TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data. It’s over what users watch and create. It’s over the opaque algorithm that governs what gets seen...
How Russia’s War On Ukraine Is Changing The World’s Ballet Stages
24th of February, this is, was the line, Because it's all changed. All changed. The reputation of Russia and Russian people, even if you...
Plato Karayanis, 91 – Led Dallas Opera For 23 Years
An outgoing man whose sonorous baritone betrayed his beginnings as a singer, Karayanis presided over the founding of the opera company’s orchestra and creation...
What The Emmys Could Learn From Comic-Con
Take a page from Comic-Con, D23, Apple and everyone else who has turned to fan events for big reveals and announcements. Make the Emmys the...
Russia Is Selling Art To Fund Its War (Some Of The Art Appears To...
A new Russian website known as Art For Victory, which belongs to an organisation known as Terricon Project, is supporting the Russian war in Ukraine by...
What Ukrainian Theatres Are Doing During The War
Two theatres have converted their stages for people to sleep and for storage of food and medicine. It echoes a narrative happening across Ukraine...
When Did The Middle Ages End (It’s Important To Know)
The Middle Ages are a chimera, a fantasy, all but impossible to define or date, at least at a global level. The conventional chronological...
Directors Guild Report: Diversity Increases
Even as the number of shows fell 36% to 2,691 in the 2020-2021 season from the year before, the number of TV episodes led...
Are Human Lives Inherently More Valuable?
Can we really justify the idea that some lives carry more ethical weight than others in general, and that human lives carry more ethical...
A Marble Bust, Bought For $35 At Goodwill In Texas, Is 2000 Years Old...
How did a 2,000-year-old sculpture of a Roman general’s head wind up in a Goodwill in Austin, Texas? - KUT