Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The “X” Factor Of City Ballet’s Roman Mejia
Mejia is an airborne dancer whose exuberance shines in joyful Balanchine ballets like “Stars and Stripes,” “Rubies” and “Western Symphony.” But his repertoire, especially...
Ahem… Do We Need More Male Novelists?
Are male novelists actually in decline? Some metrics certainly say so: of all the writers to appear on the weekly Sunday Times bestseller lists...
Why Universities Deserve Special Standing In Our Culture
It is especially ironic that, just as we began the countdown to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with commemorations at Lexington...
Visionary Director Pierre Audi, 67
Pierre Audi, the stage director and impresario whose transformation of a derelict London lecture hall into the cutting-edge Almeida Theater was the opening act in a...
Art Institute Of Chicago Director On Leave After Airplane Incident
During the incident, which occurred on April 18, police were called to United Airlines flight 953 after it landed in Munich from Chicago, following...
Meta’s New AI Chatbot Will Accompany You To Movie Theatres. Is This A Good...
The chatbot, which Meta has reportedly claimed will “get audiences back in theaters,” works by sending moviegoers trivia, quips, and questions about the movie, according to the New...
The Flood Of Fakes Has Finally Broken My Mind!
Fake images didn’t really bother me until I started looking at them with my kids. They wanted pictures of baby animals; at some point,...
Today’s Film And TV Projects Have Embraced Diversity in Story Telling. But…
In recent years, there have been increasing creative efforts to fill these historical gaps. This suggests there is a willingness, at least in some...
David Graeber’s Rogue Anthropologies
He found a way to be both a public intellectual and an academic, a scholar with the fervor of the preacher and a pundit...
Study: Handwriting Boosts Early Reading Skills In Students
“As children write less and less by hand, we wanted to explore the impact of this on alphabetic and orthographic skills. In other words,...
On Writing, Feelings And What AI Does
Some say that what makes the difference between human and machine writing—and what taints the latter—is that machines do not think, or intend, or...
Scholarly Groups Sue Trump Administration Over NEA, NEH Cuts
Three major scholarly groups have sued the National Endowment for the Humanities and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, arguing that the recent mass...
Sinners: A Movie Deal That Shook Hollywood
Since the film came out, these contract stipulations have been much discussed, even controversial. That has little to do with why “Sinners” is so...
Judge In Meta AI Case: “I Just Don’t Understand How That Can Be Fair...
Authors may need to sharpen their case, which Chhabria warned could be "taken away by fair use" if none of the authors suing, including...
NEA Cancels Already-Awarded Grants As Trump Administrations Moves To Shut NEA
“It’s strange that the Trump administration is trumpeting their priorities to serve diverse America while canceling grants for our August Wilson play." - The...
Trump Budget Proposals To Eliminate NEH, NEA, Etc. Etc.
The skinny budget also eliminates funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, AmeriCorps, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump...
How Tate Modern Changed London 25 Years Ago
This repurposed power station was set to become the UK’s cultural powerhouse. Hulking on a once unloved stretch of the South Bank, its 99-metre...
Glastonbury Festival Sells Out In 20 Minutes
The general admission tickets for the world-famous event in Somerset were released at 09:00 BST on Sunday, and the festival announced on X they...
Jon Voight Is Working On A Plan To Save Hollywood. What Is It?
The exact plan that Coming Home Oscar winner Voight, whose daughter is Angelina Jolie, has prepared for Trump is unclear, but sources with knowledge of his...
Why Pope Francis Pushed Along Sainthood For Architect Antoni Gaudi
If this happens, Gaudí would be the first secular architect in history to be declared a saint. - The Conversation
How Physics Is Improving Deep Learning
Research has drawn on principles of fluid dynamics to improve traffic predictions, sped up simulations of turbulence to enhance our understanding of hurricanes and...
Fantasy Versus SciFi: Where The Politics Align
Since the founding of the tiny corner of academia known as science fiction studies in the 1970s, there has been a sense that science...
Queer Art Visible
We wanted to make clear that in many respects, trans and queer have always been with us. You can’t talk about same-sex desire without...
Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra Musicians Blame Bad Management For Shutdown
They’re blaming the orchestra’s management for what they call “over a decade of weak and shortsighted leadership.” - Fort Myers News-Press
This Year’s Tony Nominations Rewarded Risk
The most memorable offerings didn’t care a whit about product-testing strategies. What marketing genius, for instance, could have predicted that “Maybe Happy Ending,” a jazz-infused rom-com...
