Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Should Readers Be Allowed To Return E-Books Even After They’ve Read Them?
This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to a TikTok trend whereby some readers have been posting videos about doing just that, even...
David Mamet Returns To Broadway, Politics In Tow
He wrote last year on the website UnHerd that he had been “elected a non-person by the Left many years ago,” and added: “It’s uncomfortable, and...
Peter Gelb On Canceling Putin
In the past, even when political tensions between nations grew ugly, artistic endeavors rose above the din. But Putin’s murderous actions are the playbook...
What Manner Of Beast, This BBC?
For historians the BBC represents both a fantasy object and a Borgesian nightmare. As an organisation, it has been one of the great record-keeping bureaucracies in...
Seattle Arts Organizations Come Out Of The Pandemic With New Support Models
“You truly know exactly the kind of organization you’re funding through this model, as well as how big of an impact you actually make.”...
Time Out London To Quit Its Print Magazine
The magazine began life in 1968, peaked in the late 1990s, but has seen numbers dwindling since changes to the publishing business as a...
Did Movies Really Become The World’s Dominant Art Form In The 20th Century?
LACMA is telling us that movies toppled painting and sculpture to became last century’s “greatest art form”? Hollywood is no slouch in the grandiosity...
Library Of Congress Picks Recordings To Preserve
The list usually includes what the LOC calls "sounds of history," and this year, those selections include the complete presidential speeches of President Franklin...
2000 Irish Artists To Get Basic Incomes
“It is recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society. It also places a value on the time...
Margaret Atwood: Feelings As Explanation, Not Excuse
Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not...
Hollywood Shoots Record Number Of Productions In Canada In 2021
They made a record volume of productions here between March 2020 and April 2021 worth $5.27 billion. Canada’s homegrown film and TV industry also...
Designing Ukraine Refugee Shelters That Are Livable
The Paper Partition System (PPS) is quickly and easily constructed using cardboard tubes as structure and textiles as partitions. One unit takes approximately five...
Ancient Australian Rock Art Threatened
These artifacts are 10 times older than the pyramids of Egypt. Dating back tens of thousands of years, this cluster of one million images on...
Cities Not Working? Why Not Build New Ones?
At first blush, it might seem obvious. But history is full of failed, unfinished or underperforming scratch-built city projects, in California and elsewhere, and more are in the pipeline. - Bloomberg
Broadway Box Office Stays Steady
In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the...
Report: Pre-K School Causes Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Harm
Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. -...
Police Play Copyrighted Music To Thwart Viral Video
Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social...
How Poetry Can Aid Science
When done properly, poetry can help to make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Not just as a box-ticking exercise because making sure all...
Nicolas Berggruen And His Ideas
e established the Berggruen Institute. A prolific networker, Berggruen has recruited so many prominent names to the institute’s roster of supporters and advisers that...
What Happened When Researchers Paid Fox News Watchers To Watch CNN Instead
Two political scientists paid a group of regular Fox News viewers to instead watch CNN for a month. At the end of the period, the researchers...
The Age Of Cultural Dopes
A cultural dope is someone like me or you, a consumer of culture or a “creative content provider” who produces, or consumes, the preexisting...
The Wages Of Information
We have established a culture that expects us to have opinions on everything, and even rewards us for unexpected and implausible ones. Those of...
This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
Four artists—including three women and one non-binary artist of diverse age ranges, racial and cultural backgrounds—have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, Tate...
The Woman Who Would Bring Stability To LA’s MoCA
The remarkable rate of leadership churn is widely seen as having hurt MOCA’s credibility with donors, artists and the public at a time when...
We Thought War Was Over For The Modern World. Now We Have To Rethink
Russia’s assault on Ukraine is shocking, therefore, not only for its violence, but for the fact that it reopens the question of war as...
