Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How AI Is Replacing Millions Of Jobs
While AI job automation has already replaced around 400,000 factory jobs in the U.S. from 1990 to 2007, with another 2 million on the way, AI...
Thriller: How A Famous Music School Was Airlifted Out Of Afghanistan
“It became clear, just in a matter of days, that the only way to salvage the school was to actually do a mass evacuation...
How Traditional Architecture Has Become A Right-Wing Culture Wars Battleground
This time around, the traditionalist lunatics have succeeded in taking over the asylum. Reactionary ideas hostile to the cosmopolitan, to Modernism, to modernity itself,...
The Game’s Afoot: Why Did Conan-Doyle Sign A Pirate Version Of His Holmes Novel
Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sign a pirate edition of “The Sign of the Four,” the second of the four Sherlock Holmes novels?...
We Hardly Knew Ya: Dausgaard Abruptly Quits Seattle Symphony
Seattle Symphony music director Thomas Dausgaard has abruptly stepped down from his post, midway through his third season at the top of Seattle’s flagship...
How Do You Change Dance’s Culture Of Injury?
From a very early age, dancers are taught that pain comes with the territory. “Dance is not natural. We’re stretching our bodies to extremes.”...
Understanding The Role Of Emotions
Being in the throes of an emotion influences a great many things: your memory, what you see, the inferences you draw about the world,...
For A Long Time The Purpose Of Art Was To Shock Against Norms. But...
Somewhere in the 19th century the notion develops that a work of art can be most effective when it’s ugly, when it deeply mirrors certain social realities...
Want To Be A Successful Artist? Find A Rival
A study of composers during from 1750-1899 discovered that they were significantly more productive when they lived in close proximity to other composers. The most...
The “Change” Binary Of Music
The urge to be static rose concurrently with the urge to change. And so, in the twenty-first century, we’re presented with a choice: to...
Music Critic Richard Freed, 93
Mr. Freed was active for six decades, contributing regularly to The Washington Post, the New York Times and the old Washington Star, among many other publications. He...
IMAX: Time To Rethink What Movies Are
For the right kind of movie, people really want a cultural, theatrical experience. Period. And they want to see the right kind of movie...
Anger As Motivating Force
As almost anyone can confirm, manifest anger is by its nature felt and received with an intense immediacy, bringing to life the bodily and...
We’re Drowning In Data. And We’re Not Much Good At Accessing It. Maybe AI...
Some 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last 2 years alone. In total, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day,...
“Don’t Look Up” Smashes Netflix Viewing Records
In its second week on the streaming platform, the disaster movie has recorded 152,290,000 hours streamed between Dec. 27 and Jan 2, putting it...
NLRB Orders Orchestra To Pay Musicians $276K For Missed Concerts
Local 171 of the American Federation of Musicians, representing 71 SSO musicians, had offered to forgo the settlement if board members would instead resign...
The End Of Great Travel Writing?
Travel sections in bookshops have been reduced to “three feet of guidebooks and celebrity jaunts”. Meanwhile, travel books struggle to make the literary review...
Why This Revered Writer Was Almost Denied His Nobel Prize
The newly opened archives show that, although 1971’s winner Pablo Neruda was praised by the prize-givers for “a poetry that with the action of...
Painting, Thought To Be By Caravaggio, Will Get A Chance At Restoration
In March of 2021, the painting, which had been up for sale in Madrid and priced at a measly $1,800, was pulled from its auction...
As Metal Prices Increase, Thieves Are Stealing Statues, Melting Them Down
As the price of metals has soared worldwide, people have taken to stealing streetlight wiring, plumbing valves, catalytic converters and fire hydrants. But the...
How To Design A Better Hospital? Start With Light
Numerous recent studies show that exposure to nature and natural light can reduce pain, and that even a brief contact with the outdoors reduces stress. -...
NPR Is Boosting Its Podcasts. That’s Where The Listener Growth Is
Subscription podcasting offers a new digital business model for NPR and its member stations. But its long-standing mission to inform the public limits how...
The Link Between Emotions And Making Good Decisions
One way emotions aid decision making is by steering attention to both threats and opportunities. - The Atlantic
The Artist’s Intention? Actually, It Doesn’t Matter
Authors must accept that art is prone to inspiring disparate, and potentially conflicting, responses — and they can’t do anything about it. - Washington...
No, Norman Mailer Hasn’t Been Canceled By His Publisher, Says His Son
“They didn’t feel they were the right house to do this book right now. I don’t think they have any interest in trying to...
