Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why More Cities Are Dismantling Rather Than Demolishing
Deconstruction, city officials say, is a green alternative to demolition, sending up to 85 percent less material to landfills. Building materials and construction account...
How Henry Louis Gates Changed The Literary Canon
As a literary critic, Gates made an impact on the field by helping to establish a canon of African American literature—one that was neither...
Why Subsuming The Australia Council Is A Bad Idea
The proposal to replace the Australia Council is evidence of why it is not– or at least, not yet – up to the task...
What Drives Your Art?
It’s not about the art. It’s not about the money. It’s not about the donors. It’s not about the audience. It’s not about the...
Retirees At The Getty Object To Offloading Their Pensions
Former employees of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have slammed its decision to hand its pension plan over to an insurance...
Long Wharf Theatre Giving Up Its Longtime Home
As the company remade itself, it faced a real estate quandary: whether to renew its expiring lease at the New Haven Food Terminal, just off...
Linguists Analyze “Q” Writings And Identify The Author
Two teams of forensic linguists say their analysis of the Q texts shows that Paul Furber, one of the first online commentators to call...
Facebook Dying? Unlikely
Facebook has already profoundly transformed how we understand ourselves in the digital age in a way that cannot be undone. Whether it survives is...
An End To International Touring For Orchestras?
Orchestras still face the possibility of disruption by future waves of the virus, making planning difficult. In some bustling international markets, including China, quarantine...
BP To End Longterm Sponsorship Of London’s National Portrait Gallery
Pressure group Culture Unstained called the news "a major win for the campaign against fossil fuel sponsorship". - BBC
How a Small Quebec Publisher Flipped The Page On Diversity
What happens when a press does more than increase its roster of writers of colour? What happens when diversity is built into its very...
Analyzing The Books That Paris’ Shakespeare & Company Lent In The 1920s
The Shakespeare and Company Project is a relational database and web application. The Project uses documents from the Sylvia Beach Papers at Princeton University...
UK Culture Secretary: We Have To Save The BBC
“Our responsibility is to save the BBC from itself, because it is that polar bear on a shrinking ice cap,” she said. “It’s a...
The Streaming Problem
The streaming age has been hard on independent musicians. In 2020, analytics company Alpha Data examined data based on 1.6 million artists who released...
Public Broadcasters Having Difficulty Meeting DEI Goals
Managers and staff who are leading DEI initiatives at their stations describe unanticipated delays in implementing action plans, misunderstandings over the roles of staff...
Understanding The Evolutions Of Traditions
Although small modifications do not undo a tradition, small changes can aggregate into significant deviations. For example, if someone is tall, then if they were...
The New Online Choreographers
Among this blossoming crop of teachers and influencers, and the legions of creators making their moves into memes on TikTok, Angela Trimbur, 40, stands out. Underpinned by an...
Could Our Conscious Minds Exist In Virtual Worlds?
Once one has been presented with the hypothesis that we could exist as the conscious beings we are in a purely fabricated world of...
Trump’s New Social Network Soars To Top Of Apple Store (But New Users Encounter...
While it seemingly has attracted broad interest, many users who attempted to sign up for Truth Social accounts on Monday (Feb. 21) have reported...
The Problem Of Writing Fiction Of Now During The Pandemic
“It seemed too soon to be writing about the pandemic, which we were living through, but it also seemed hard to be writing about...
Does The Demise Of The Capitol Steps Comedy Troupe Say Something About How America...
Political humor had changed. It was less lighthearted, more snarky and sarcastic. Washington had changed, no longer a place where Democrats and Republicans would...
More And More Museum Workers Are Unionizing
Many of the workers who have recently joined unions have come from the curatorial, administrative and education staffs — white-collar office workers who often...
On The Frontlines Of The Battle For Our Attention
The reality is we simply don’t have the long-term studies that tell us whether our collective attention span has actually shrunk. What we do...
Theatre was Inventive During COVID. That Inventiveness Might Make Theatre Better Going Forward
In order to survive at all during this period, theatre did need to adapt, and notable examples of genius materialised, reimagining the genre entirely....
University Censors Project About Censorship
The irony is almost too neat: a college student plans a program of songs from musicals that have faced censorship – and with less...