Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Here’s What Happens When You Offer Free Grammar Advice
I know how deep people’s relationship to grammar runs, because I’ve been teaching adults of all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds for thirty years. Language...
What If We Are The Ancients The Future Remembers?
Longtermism is about taking seriously just how big the future could be and how high the stakes are in shaping it. If humanity survives...
Where The US Is Losing Population
The examination of age shifts shows a loss of young people under age 18 and those in their prime working ages (18 through 59)....
Why Elevators Are Losing Their Music
With phones and constant connectivity do we really need a song during our elevator journeys? Apparently not. Elevators are losing their soundtracks. At least,...
New Leader For 9/11 Museum
Elizabeth Hillman, 54, who served as a U.S. Air Force space operations officer in the 1990s before becoming a law professor in the 2000s,...
How Museums Are Dealing With LGBTQ Cultures
Queer Britain is just one of a wave of new L.G.B.T.Q. institutions in London. “We’re still trying to see how we fit together with...
Why So Many Adults Are Keeping Their Kid Culture
If life in the 1930s was marked by a Great Depression, and the 2010s by a Great Recession, one might say our current decade...
Polish Museum Implores Visitors To Please Not Have Sex In The Museum
“Guests in love, please understand — most of the exhibits in our museum are objects ‘born’ many years ago and subject to completely different...
Pittsburgh Arts Advocates Want To Revamp City’s Percent-For-Art Program
“Right now, Percent for Art is reactive based on location, as opposed to opportunistic and strategic as to where’s the greatest need.” - WESA
Hollywood’s Critiques Of Online Culture Are Getting Pretty Good
The internet by design has sanded complex ideas down to trending hashtags, stripping subtlety from language and producing younger generations who confuse attention for...
It’s Been Two Years Since A Massive Explosion Destroyed Beirut. Architects Are Picking Up...
Since the explosion, architects and designers have dealt with the after-effects in different ways, with some choosing to leave Beirut and others moving within...
The Ukrainian Guy Selling Music Discs That Have Survived Russian Bombing
I noticed a listing for an LP that read “Nirvana ‘The Best’ LP survived after AIRSTRIKE from Kharkiv, UKRAINE. For help. - The New...
Libraries Are Starting To Change How They Reference Indigenous Peoples
Outdated terminology such as “Indians of North America” has remained in these term lists despite changing use in society and no longer matches the...
How Do You Measure Academic Work?
How long does academic work take? How long should it take? Even more troubling, who gets to decide what is valuable and necessary work for...
ClassicFM Listenership Dips To All-Time Low
Classic FM’s audience has hit a record low, falling under 5 million listeners for the first time with over half a million people switching...
Geffen Hall Theatre To Be Named After Key Donor
The $50 Million gift represents one of the Tsai family’s biggest ventures so far into the performing arts. Joseph Tsai, who trained as a...
This Is What The World Has Become: Beyonce Re-Recording Two Tracks From Her Newly-Released...
The song Heated will have ableist language removed from it, while the song Energy will be rerecorded without one of the samples on which it is...
We Need To Redefine What It Means To Be A Citizen
In this future, people are citizens, rather than subjects or consumers. With this identity, it becomes easier to see that all of us are smarter than...
Our Relationships With Fiction
Today, critics can almost take for granted that we have emotional relationships with literary works—notably, ones of attachment. But if the literary work is “an object...
Princeton Experiments With A New Way To Audition
Princeton University has thrown away the practice of traditional auditions and have introduced “Try On Theater Days,” replacing high-intensity auditions with educational workshops as a means to cast performers...
Classical Music Is Disappearing From Our Common Public Spaces
It's part of a trend that is increasingly unavoidable: the disappearance of classical music from the kind of cultural settings where it used to be...
Study: Effects Of Music On Our Bodies
The researchers discuss the concept that the body responds rhythmically to the music you are listening to, speeding up when the tempo is faster,...
Why I Study The Great Emptiness Of Space
Cosmic voids are cosmology at its purest. They are simple. The complications of star formation and black holes don’t impact them because they don’t...
What It’s Like Being A Backup Dancer On Tour
Most mornings start with waking up in the tour bus in a new city. - Dance Magazine
Eighty Percent Of Younger Viewers Keep Subtitles Turned On. Why?
A study last November found that four out of five viewers aged between 18 and 25 said they use subtitles “all or part of the time”...
