Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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.”...
Banning Books Is Becoming Subtler (But Still Banning)
Though the publishing industry would never condone book banning, a subtler form of repression is taking place in the literary world, restricting intellectual and...
Report: How Canadians’ Listening Habits Are Changing
The yearly report shows a clear trend away from radio and physical media, led not surprisingly by younger Canadians. - Ludwig Van
Norman Lear At 100
“I think the big secret is never forgetting to wake up in the morning. It starts with getting out of bed,” Lear says. “But...
US Copyright Office Declines To Target Web Aggregators
The U.S. Copyright office, contrary to the approach taken in Europe, has declined to add an ancillary copyright for publishers to protect them from...
A New Hotel That’s All Broadway
All through the hallways and suites and lounges of the Civilian, a new 27-story, 203-room hotel a block from Times Square, guests can face everything...
Why Is San Francisco Opera Presenting An Opera On The Wrong Side Of History?
The idea that “the unborn” are in any sense people has always been an appalling misrepresentation. Today, in the wake of the recent Supreme...
Netflix Is In Trouble
Dreams of the company building a global base of 700 million or even 800 million paid memberships now seem far-fetched, given the company has stalled out...
The Epic Battle For Control Of A Legendary Music Club
This roadhouse drama has pitted neighbor against neighbor in a remote area where lots are the size of baseball fields and police cars seldom...
Hollywood Flocks To Eastern Europe
Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in...
The Writers Using AI To Help Them Create
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break...
Kaija Saariaho On Life As A Composer
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today,...
Record Number Of New Cultural Buildings In 2021
211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 - $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016...
The African Artist Collective Turning Colonialism On Its Head
Plantation workers there earn twenty or thirty dollars a month; as artists, they make much more. The collective has brought in more than a...
What, Actually, Is A Paragraph? Punctuation? Idea?
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as...
