Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Surprising: Museums Haven’t Yet Embraced TikTok
The total number of followers on TikTok for all 100 museums is 1.3 million. That is compared to a total of 55.3 million followers...
Why Giving Grades Is Counter-Productive
They are demotivating, they don’t actually measure learning and they increase students’ stress. - The Conversation
Towards A New Definition Of Scholarship
“We believe the time has come to move beyond the tired old ‘teaching versus research’ debate and give the familiar and honorable term ‘scholarship’...
The Difficulty Of Telling History
There is no one past. There are countless pasts. Mine. Yours. The billions, or at least millions, of people who were alive at any...
Why This Moment Of Crises Is An Opportunity For Artists
Change is an act of creation, and that’s what artists do: Through a process of imagining, trying and building, artists create experiences that connect us...
A San Francisco Dance Powerhouse Turns 50
The dance school offers an array of classes that are now both virtual and, finally, in-person. The theater offers some 150 performances a year...
The Motion Picture Academy Says It’s Trying To Be More Diverse. How’s It Doing?
Even after that change, and after another year of invitees in 2021 that continued the trend, the Academy still stands at 81 percent white...
Indian State Gives Money To Takes Young Students To Museums
Bihar’s Ministry of Education has pledged to provide 20,000 rupee ($260) to every primary school in the state for museum visits, with the money...
The Internet As An Idea (That We’re Trapped In)
The crisis really heats up when the algorithm’s structuring power bends back upon us and constrains us into thinking of ourselves as if we...
How Much Of Their Work Should Choreographers Post Online?
It’s a complex calculus, asking artists to become experts in marketing, video editing and budgeting, in addition to dancemaking. But when it comes to...
The Music Catalog Business Is Booming
Catalog valuations have shot up in recent years. In 2021, investors paid multiples equivalent to around 22 times the net publisher’s share of royalties—a...
Supreme Court To Rule On Fair Use In Warhol Work
The case will test fair use defense to copyright infringement and how to assess if a new work based on an older one meaningfully...
Second-Lowest Oscar Ratings Ever
The early results showed a 56 percent improvement on the 9.6 million people who watched last year’s event, according to ABC, though Sunday night’s show...
Why Do We Still Need Religion?
Part of the reason people are attracted to religion is that its rituals – the standing, sitting and kneeling in unison, the singing, the...
Revival Of Surrealism In A Surreal Age
Certainly, if you consider what’s currently happening in visual arts, it appears that we are in a major Surrealist revival. The most prominent bellwether...
The Quantifiable, Scientific Measure Of Art
Art historians may say that they do not need numbers. There is the art: you just need to look, think, and write. But that...
Studies: Children Learn As Much From Guided Play As From Adult Instruction
Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided...
The Oscars’ Audience Problem
The Oscars face a litany of problems, some of which are out of the organization’s control and others that are self-inflicted. Those include the...
What Happens When Students Learn History Through Video Games
Academic historians must now grapple with a new breed of students “for whom Paradox is the historical mother tongue and actual history is only...
San Francisco’s Iconic TransAmerica Tower To Get Major Restoration
The project is expected to cost $400 million, with $250 million to renovate the pyramid Redwood Park and the Mark Twain Street located on...
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: No Excuse For Russian Artists Not To Oppose Russian War On...
Baryshnikov, the actor and ballet star, launched a fundraising drive to support Ukraine. But he also said Russian stars who do not speak out should...
Museums Are Trying To Make Money On NFTs
Cash-poor museums to generate money by selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Last year, NFTs, usually pegged to the high-flying but volatile Ethereum cryptocurrency, took the market...
Scientists Are Trying To Shape Dreams. Creepy? Or…
The Dormio enables a limited shaping of the images that appear during sleep’s first stage. Yet this is enough to give bite to the...
Pandemic Has Forced A Rethink Of Creative Uses Of Public Spaces
The regeneration of cultural destinations and tourism is a key objective, but more so, the pandemic has prompted a critical rethink on pressing concerns...
Have We Reached Peak Podcast?
“Because we have seen so much growth over the last few years, the No. 10 show is getting more downloads than the No. 10...