Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What If Laziness And Apathy Have Neurological Causes?
When these systems become dysfunctional, people who were once highly motivated can become pathologically apathetic. Whereas previously they might have been curious, highly engaged...
2025’s Best Dance
Emotion was often the bedrock of the dances and dance artists who rose to the top this year. - The New York Times
Korea’s Classical Music Scene Has A Major Economic Problem
Korea’s classical music market remains chronically constrained. In an ecosystem dominated by private presenters, major international orchestras often need to schedule at least three...
The Bain Report: How The Movie Theatre Business Can Be Saved
So, how does the cinema experience fit into this time? Its key benefits are “immersion, spectacle, and shared experiences,” the Bain report highlights. “But...
A Tumultuous Year For Washington DC Classical Music
More and more, the political noise around the Kennedy Center threatens to overwhelm the music within, and it’s unclear what, if anything, is being...
If You Quit Social Media. Will Your Time Really Be Better Spent On…?
One of the more common doomsday scenarios about social media goes something like this: an internet-addicted public, hooked on the dopamine hits of engagement...
A Historic Turner Prize Winner
The judges praised Nnena Kalu's brightly coloured sculptures - which are haphazardly wrapped in layers of ribbon, string, card and shiny VHS tape -...
And Now… The Trump Administration’s War On “Woke” Fonts
US diplomats have been ordered to return to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications, with secretary of state Marco Rubio calling the Biden...
Of Sports Betting And Music Competitions
I acknowledge that it is important to be able to honor great musicians in a very public way but I believe there is a...
Why Are We Curious About Some Things And Not Others?
All this infophilia raises an important question: if we like information so much, why don’t we seek out more of it? - Psyche
Pew Arts And Culture Names A New Leader
Christina Vassallo, 45, follows Paula Marincola, who retired in October after serving as the center’s first director, since 2008. After leaving the Fabric Workshop in 2023,...
How Streaming Made Documentaries Popular (And Wrecked The Form)
Presently, non-fiction filmmaking (in the form of docuseries) stands as a cornerstone of streaming economics, a format bolstered and degraded by an ever-growing demand...
How Netflix Upended The Movie Business
Netflix’s movies don’t have to abide by any of the norms established over the history of cinema: they don’t have to be profitable, pretty,...
Princeton’s New Museum Is An Important Building
This extraordinarily rich design is certainly assertive throughout, but it is completely in synch with the nature of an institution that has been collecting...
Playwrights Are Breaking Theatre’s Fourth Wall
These writers create an environment in which characters can enter or exit the main storyline as if from a magic door. Audiences are cognizant...
The Golden Globes Are Back (And Still Problematic)
So, yes, for all intents and purposes, the Golden Globes are back. But regarding ethical practices, today’s for-profit Globes may well be worse than...
Producer: AI Is Inevitable In Music. Time To Have A Strategy
“Everybody should be selling or licensing their voice and their skills to these companies,” Stewart said. “Otherwise they’re just going to take it anyway.”...
Louvre Leak Causes Water Damage To Art Work
“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as...
Solving An 800-Picture Art Heist In Slow Motion
Some 800 paintings have been taken from the collection since 1945, in one of the most devastating spates of art theft in Germany’s postwar...
Director of Development for Texas Ballet Theater
Texas Ballet Theater seeks a creative, hands-on Development Director to lead annual fundraising efforts and prepare for a capital campaign.
PEM, Director of Exhibition Design
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, seeks a Director of Exhibition Design to lead its Exhibition Design Department
Struggling To Define Intelligence: What Does It Take?
We are running out of intelligence tests that humans can pass reliably and AI models cannot. By those benchmarks, and if we accept that intelligence is...
Spotify Wrapped Is Everything That’s Wrong About Our Outsourced Musical Taste
It nudges listeners away from deep consideration and towards accepting a corporate-branded scorecard reflecting a very specific perspective on musical value. It encourages music...
Architecture Is Shifting From The “Lone Genius” Model To Collective Activism
Architects are expanding their boundaries into other fields such as gastronomy, music, design, and the corporate world, applying spatial thinking to address challenges of...
Inside The Enormous New Grand Egyptian Museum
Located on a desert plateau formed by the Nile thousands of years ago, the Museum's geological setting was integral to the design. Beginning at a focal...
