Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Blowback On Productivity
If you accept that increased productivity helps the common good, the question becomes how to reliably achieve these increases. Until recently, the answer to...
Most Diverse Booker Prize Finalists List Ever
Four debut novelists – Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor – are up against the acclaimed Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the Ethiopian-American...
The Gender Gap Is Growing In Our Universities
“In almost every rich country, women earn the majority of bachelor’s degrees. Almost every country that gives men and women equal access to education...
Data’s In: Disney To Release All Its Movies In Theatres First
It comes after Disney's successful theatrical release this month of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. - BBC
Dante’s Purgatory In A Time Of Global Uncertainty
The concept of Purgatory was relatively new when Dante was born. Dante’s conception of Purgatory is remarkably like a wilderness boot camp. Its terrain...
How 9/11 Changed Comedy
Some of the comedic experimentation that immediately followed 9/11 tested the limits of free speech for entertainers, who made up the new rules as...
How We Learn To Know What We Want
Capitalism promises an endless series of alterations —tiny changes that... don’t amount to change at all. Aesthetic education, where “one suspends one’s current values...
The Case For All Art Being Ecological
Works of art are not merely representations of the way things are but function to reveal and evolve a community’s shared understanding. Each time...
How A Public Spaces Program Is Transforming A Russian City
“We come and ask people what they want done, what they want preserved, and what they want to go. And if less than three-quarters...
The Up- And Down-sides Of Envy
Professional envy can have positive and negative repercussions. Workplaces where managers make a point of comparisons — posting leaderboards or naming employees of the...
Scientists Unlock Keys To Creative “Hot Streaks”
The team found that for all three career types, work tended to be more diverse just before a true hot streak than expected from...
David Pickard On Producing A Proms Season Like No Other
"My overriding memory of this summer will not be the hoops and hurdles we overcame, but the sheer joy of performers and audiences communing...
Remembering Producer Liz McCann
Linda Winer: "She thrived on the gamble, what she relished as the “craziness” of her unlikely life and this “business of strange accidents.” - American...
Jazz Resurgence in Pittsburgh
There are new clubs in the city and new haunts where jazz can once again be heard regularly. There is fresh talent filling out...
How Movies Changed In Response to 9/11
If the terrorist attacks had appeared like a movie, then the immediate response of Hollywood was that films released in the aftermath of the...
How The Word “Performative” Got Corrupted
What is worse, the meaning of performative in contemporary parlance, while not very precise, is almost exactly the opposite of the word’s original meaning. - Hedgehog Review
Why Do We Still Care About Shakespeare?
So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes...
What’s The Next Defining Tech Era?
So what can we see bubbling up in techland at the moment? If you believe the industry, metaverses (plural) – basically conceived as massive virtual-reality environments...
Bill Rauch On The Performing Arts Center At The World Trade Center
The PAC will be the final piece of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, a three-story building — 129,000-square feet with three flexible...
The Mercury Prize Glorifies Albums When No One Listens To Albums Anymore
Since the turn to online services, however, the award has undertaken an additional role. It is upholding the idea of the album in the...
LA’s New Movie Museum Has A Weird Omission: Music
The studios, of course, have a long and famous history of cluelessness when it comes to soundtracks. They’ve tossed countless original scores into the...
Why Young Korean Musicians Are Ascendant In Classical Music
Thierry Loreau, a Belgian filmmaker and TV director, sees the domination of young Koreans in classical music competitions as a cultural phenomenon, labeling it...
Time To End Artsploitation
Behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation. Salaries were so low that full-time employees worked extra jobs. An hourly rate...
That Didn’t Take Long: LA MoCA Leader Flees To Berlin
Just eight days after the Museum of Contemporary Art said Klaus Biesenbach would run the Los Angeles institution with a newly named co-leader, Biesenbach...
Where The Wisdom Of Crowds Falls Short
Our recent research suggests that while group deliberation can indeed increase the accuracy of forecasts, it can lead you astray when it comes to making a...
