Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Wanna Job In Hollywood? There’s Now An App For That
It’s hard enough to find top-tier showrunners, editors and cinematographers. But less obvious roles are equally difficult to fill. Need a good production accountant?...
How Dancers Take Care Of Their Feet
Barring debilitating pain, dancers typically can’t stop working because of aching or blistered feet. They face foot issues every day, from relentless physical demands...
All Done: For “Inexplicable Reasons” Mockingbird Won’t Return To Broadway
Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher emailed the play’s cast and crew late Thursday to inform them of the decision, and they blamed the original...
Inside The Bitter Battle Over Dividing Streaming Revenue
This uneven division of the revenue was originally calculated to account for the expenses that labels incurred in the manufacture and distribution of vinyl,...
Ibram X Kendi’s Binaries On Race
If you have read one Kendi book, you have read them all. And whether one agrees or disagrees with his arguments, they are the...
Decline of The Glossy Magazine
With the churn of digital publishing pushing magazines into the financial and cultural doldrums, the luster of the legacy media job has only gotten...
What Happened To Newspaper Book Reviews
What many readers encounter are cautious judgments affixed to a skeletal summary, leaving little opening for the decisive and expansive claims on a reader’s...
Why Do We Have To Spell It That Way? (English Is Messy)
We can shrug and chalk up English’s many quirks to tradition. Or we can try to think beyond our own time, as President Theodore...
Dreams Of A Common Language: A History Of Esperanto
Grammatically, Esperanto was primarily influenced by European languages, but interestingly, some of Esperanto’s innovations bear a striking resemblance to features found in some Asian languages, such as Chinese. - The Conversation
Reality Has Become A Game Played Online
What we haven’t figured out how to make sense of yet is the fun that many Americans act like they’re having with the national fracture. -...
Our Best Writers Challenge And Discomfit Us
Our best writers can unfreeze us. They override the notion that we’re helpless, and sometimes they do it paradoxically, by depicting people who are...
The Co-opting Of Art In A Changing World
“Our art has become exhaustively political, but it is no longer discernibly subversive,” observed the writer Greg Jackson about the literature of the Trump...
This Year Even Music By The Biggest Stars Isn’t Selling
Beyoncé isn’t the only superstar who’s struggling to make a hit with staying power. The past year has seen superstars release new music to...
The Meaning Of Purgatory
While the idea of an intermediate state after death is present in many religions – Buddhism has its bardo, Judaism its Sheol, Islam its...
Facebook Stops Paying Publishers For News
Facebook has paid publishers who participate in the News program. The company signed deals worth tens of millions of dollars with news organizations such...
Trial Over Mega-Book Publisher Merger Set To Begin
The closely watched case holds major implications for a publishing industry that has been grappling with consolidation for years. It also looms as a key...
How Our Music Habits Change As We Age
“We find clear differences between users at different points of their off-platform lifecycles, with younger listeners consistently exploring less and exploiting known content more.”...
New Canadian Radio Format Focuses On Audience And Wins Listeners
Key to Conversation Radio's success is the higher level of interaction between hosts and the audience. “The hosts skilled in storytelling, the life...
Mexican Town Sets Off Debate About Authentic Culture And Branding
The decree has generated conversations in the tourist-heavy, gentrifying borough about history, art, and the effects of globalization: How should a city balance the...
Wisconsin Nutcracker Stars In Challenge To Public Health Rules
The public health officer categorized the socially distanced ballet as a “high-risk sport” and counted each of the ballet’s eight segments as a separate...
As AI Gets Baked In To Artist Creation Tools, Who Will Own The Work?
There are reasons to be troubled by the prospect of tech companies like OpenAI controlling the major means of artistic production in the future. -...
New UK Study Documents How Tough It Is For Musicians To Make A Living
More artists than ever before are releasing music, the report says, but this does not mean more are successful. Analysis published by the Intellectual...
Determining Cultural Quality In The Age Of Massive Data
As Van Dijk has observed, in our digital society, evaluation of cultural products has become synonymous with crowd evaluation. On websites or in newspapers...
The Trap Of Being Over-Informed
The demand to “stay informed” creates and nurtures that feeling of helplessness. By now, it’s common knowledge that social media is exquisitely crafted to...
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Takes To The Road In Europe In Daunting Tour
The logistics of international orchestral touring are formidable at the best of times. But the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s tour is probably going to set...
