Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Captive Audience: Why Mazdas In The Pacific Northwest Only Tune This NPR Station
It was as if the infotainment center had decided to team up with the ghost of HAL. You remember that malfunctioning, soft-spoken and ultimately...
Why Some Of Us Seek Out Painful Experiences
Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are...
Restitution Of Cultural Artifacts Is Gaining Momentum
International co-operation and resolve is growing firmer, as seen most recently in December, when Greece’s resolution, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the...
NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience
To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to...
Unesco: A Worldwide Cultural Crisis Because Of The Pandemic – 10 Million Culture Jobs...
“What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity.” - The Guardian
Why Joe Rogan Matters
He channels his audience into extended conversations with famously smart people who are willing to give them hours of attention. Through him, they feel...
Why It’s Important To Listen To Old Recordings
Today, of course, technical perfection is an overriding concern. But there are other aspects of performance practice today, some of which are wonderful but...
That Line Between Work And Play
Adults taking hobbies too seriously can be a pathetic spectacle, but it is also a staple of comedy. - 3 Quarks Daily
What Makes The Architecture Of LA’s New Stadium (and Home Of This Week’s Superbowl)...
“Thinking about the Getty Villa, the Getty , Dodger Stadium, the cliffs in Malibu or Laguna,” shaped the way the team thought about...
Why Netflix Is Going To Fail
Netflix’s proprietary approach— based on sole control of intellectual property and intense hostility to all other players—is destined for long term failure. - Ted...
Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games
QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every...
Meet The Teenagers Who Started A Bookclub To Read Banned Books
The teen members of Kutztown’s Banned Book Club, meet every two weeks to read and discuss literature that conservatives across the country are working...
Superstar Concert Ticket Prices Soar, Pricing Out Many
“Even with the inflated prices, I’m still going to go to gigs because music is what I live for. But working-class people are getting...
Tracking Broadway’s Uneven Reopening: Winners And Losers
The quick upshot: While the formerly $15 billion industry was still recovering, many shows made up much, if not all, lost momentum. But the...
Spotify’s Real Problem: Unrealistic Ambition
What’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks is that the source of Spotify’s headaches isn’t Rogan. It is Spotify’s own corporate ambition to dominate...
US Treasury Department Warns Of Money Laundering Through Fine Art
The treasury department did find evidence of money laundering in the high-value art market. A common theme is that criminals use shell companies to...
Cellist Leslie Parnas, 90
From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, Parnas was the principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He went on to be a prizewinner...
Here’s How China’s Influence On American Culture Works
“Red Dawn” would become a case study observed by every producer in Hollywood who needed this market to make a profit. And soon, it...
Is Hollywood Rethinking The Romantic Gender Age Gap?
“Men on screen have a whole life, and women only have a shelf life,” says Nicky Clark, the founder of campaign group Acting Your...
Composer George Crumb, 92
While rejecting the sometimes arid 12-tone technique of Modernists, Mr. Crumb beguiled audiences with his own musical language, composing colorful and concise works that...
Study: Documenting How Humans Have Altered Evolution
They confirmed, for instance, that on average, all over the world, animal species seem to be getting smaller. This runs contrary to a theory...
Smithsonian Chooses Founding Director For New National Latino Museum
The museum, along with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, was authorized by Congress in December 2020. The museums will be the first new...
Remembering Post Modernist Choreographer David Gordon
He combined movement and words in ways that could be stimulating or jolting, focusing on family or fantasy, or delving into Ionesco, Shakespeare, or...
The Book Tour Has Gone Online (It Might Stay There)
Even as international travel restrictions are being lifted, some writers say they will continue to carry on with virtual events because they are more...
Spotify’s Pickle: It Needs Rogan And Music Lovers
Spotify’s business needs all the podcasters it can get. Especially ones like Mr. Rogan, who draws listeners by the millions. But the threat of...
