Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Therapy Game – How Games Are Therapy
Therapy can and even sometimes should feel like a game. For when we play, we are present. But more importantly, we are malleable, dropping...
Study: We Could Prevent 20 Percent Of Deaths By Redesigning Cities
Research has shown, for instance, that 20% of all deaths could be prevented if cities were designed to meet the recommendations for physical activity,...
We Need Literature To Tell Untold Stories. But When Is It Appropriation?
How can writers tell and translate stories about marginalized groups without exploitation or appropriation? - Metropolitan (Japan)
Prospect’s List Of The World’s Top Fifty Thinkers
When we turn to the world of ideas, this is a year for people who are individualists by temperament, if not intellect. - Prospect
Australian Thinktank Proposes New Model For The Arts (We Have Our Reservations)
ANA pushes the sector further towards a policy model where it delivers ‘returns on investment’ via quantifiable targets. It’s a form of technocratic neoliberalism...
Speedrunners: The Players Racing To Beat Classic Games
Beating a classic video game might sound like a fun hobby, but Fowler’s years of speedrunning have ballooned into a full-time gig. - Maclean's
Can The Arts Lead A Green Recovery?
"Many people working in culture have been forced to take a time out of the day-to-day and reflect on the big stuff. And there...
The Fascinating Political History Of Dubbing Movies
Dubbing is a brilliant tool for film censorship. Sound films began to appear in the early 1930s, a time when many countries were falling...
Why It’s So Easy To Ridicule The Art World
The contemporary art world is, more often than not, represented as a ridiculous shell game in which empty provocation is propped up by canny...
The Serendipity Of Almanacs
Almanacs are an anomaly in the 2021 literary landscape, a choose-your-own adventure of print culture. So much of reading, especially online, is about seeking:...
Washington’s Signature Theatre Picks A New Leader
Matthew Gardiner takes over the 32-year-old company, which operates two performance spaces in Arlington’s Village at Shirlington, at a tumultuous inflection point. - Washington...
Mapping The Reopening: A TRG Report
55% of U.S. organizations plan to host performances before October 2021. U.K. arts and culture organizations are even more optimistic, with 83% planning a...
How Musical Memories Evolve
Our unreliable memories of musical events are only partly the result of faulty powers of recall. Another contributing factor is the aging process. -...
Security Guards Curate Baltimore Museum Show
“I was struck and moved by the extraordinarily personal, cogent arguments that each officer made for their selection, which was so different from the...
A Music Critic Reconsiders The Star Spangled Banner As A Piece Of Music
What if, after 90 years, we took a diagnostic check on this venerable musical document to see whether it still works as intended? -...
What Jerry Saltz’s Rejection Of Substack Really Means
"Some more enterprising major-media columnists sometimes compare Substack to the broadsheets of journalism’s early decades in the 1800s, though they do this, invariably, as...
How Mathematical Models Gave Us An Advantage With COVID
Enormously useful mathematical tools that have been put to work during the pandemic—from classical differential equations to more recent techniques such as Monte Carlo...
Oklahoma City Ballet Sues Insurance Company Over Denied COVID Claims
“An all risk policy is to cover any loss that you have during the policy period, unless it is specifically excluded.” - KFOR
France Fines Google $593 Million Over News Sharing
It is "one of the first attempts to apply a new copyright directive adopted by the European Union intended to force internet platforms like...
They Said COVID Would Kill Cities. Clearly It Hasn’t
What is so alluring about the perpetually imminent End of Cities? Why won’t that idea itself die? - The New York Times
The Arts Have A Class Problem
Our research found that a complex blend of social inequalities, labour market failures, and outright discrimination are making these jobs so exclusive and keeping...
Movie Theatre Stocks Down As Industry Realigns
“Imagine being a theater owner and realizing studios need you less and less every day. Leverage is shifting rapidly in the streaming era toward...
Warner (Seeing Easy Money) Introduces “NFTs For The Masses”
Nifty’s, which launches on Monday, is all about making NFTs more accessible to the average person who may not want to spend money (let...
US Post Office Launches Stamps Featuring Tap Dancers
"Today, we are celebrating the American art form of tap dance with these vibrant stamps in the heart of Times Square." - KPVI
TV Has Done A Bad Job At Portraying Poverty
We need productions that embrace social realism without condescension, interrogate class insightfully, and present characters that are not caricatures. - The Walrus
