Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How American Outsider In Popular Media Shaped Our Culture
As we entered the new millennium, three daring TV series remade the television landscape, and they all featured a new breed of outsider: lawless,...
Can Literature Shape Law?
What does it mean to credit the written word with such capacious potencies, to charge it with such real-world responsibilities? And how is literature,...
Architect Turns To Local Materials, Builds Schools That Stay Cool In 100+-Degree Heat
“We don’t need air conditioning, which is an incredible energy saving." Temperatures in this region of the world remain at about 40C (104F) during...
Paris’ Own Outlaw Street Artist — The French Banksy
Like Banksy, the British street artist he is sometimes likened to, Invader is elusive, fiercely protective of his anonymity and operating on the margins of...
Architect Antoine Predock, 87
In a 65-plus-year career, he sought to create buildings that were, as he often put it, “grounded in the earth yet soaring toward the...
Annals Of Bad AI Ads: This Orchestra Ad Imagines A Fake Audience
“Want to do something different this Saturday? Come see an orchestra play,” reads the ad. It was apparently created by someone who has never seen...
Texas Public Radio Pioneering Leader Dies At 66
Joyce Slocum was instrumental in TPR’s growth from an organization of modest size and ambition to one whose reach and influence is recognized nationwide,...
Here’s What Happened When Chicago’s Public Radio Merged With The Sun-Times Newspaper
Now deep into the five-year grant, the combined newsrooms reach 2.8 million readers and listeners; newsletter subscriptions total 760,500; and the Sun-Times’ pageviews increased...
Artists Warn Censorship Is Rising
Censorship is on the rise globally, say artists and art professionals: two groups that carry the unofficial but historic burden of speaking truth to...
State Of Texas Took Over Houston Schools. Now School Libraries Are Being Emptied
According to circulation data from the Houston Independent school district, the number of books checked out per student at NES schools dwindled to nearly zero compared...
Why The EU’s Fine For Apple Is Important
“This decision sends a powerful message — no company, not even a monopoly like Apple, can wield power abusively to control how other companies...
Why Public Radio Has Struggled To Diversify Its Audience And Not Succeeded
None of these efforts moved the audience measurement needle, in most cases because they didn’t sufficiently address the primary cause of audience — the...
Losing Your Mind? Forgetting Is Part Of The Design For How Memory Works
“The problem isn’t your memory, it’s that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place. Severe memory loss is...
Apple Is Fined $2 Billion By The EU Over Access To App Subscriptions To...
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said it found the company violated antitrust rules by restricting app developers from telling users about alternative...
It’s Musicians Who Are Getting Hurt By The TikTok Music Ban
“TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok...
UK Backs Down, Grants Visas To Afghan Youth Orchestra Musicians
The band of 47 exiled musicians aged between 14 and 22 had been working for months on their repertoire for the shows, which are...
Study: Millions Of Research Papers Are Not Being Properly Preserved Online
More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The...
Was Keith Haring A Sellout?
There are few artists whose signature styles have been so widely, unashamedly capitalized by big brands (with the help of estates and foundations). But...
New Dance Company In Ireland Will Change Irish Dance
The establishment of a new, all-Ireland dance company has been described as “a new dawn” for the art form in Ireland by the Arts...
Why Is There No Best Choreography Oscar?
Why isn’t there an Oscar for best choreography? It’s a question people in the dance world have been asking for decades. And there’s no...
How AI Is Going To Starve News
We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on writers, then on editing and fact-checking their findings. Perplexity gets it all for free....
Reframing Sleep In a Cultural/Artistic Way
Works of literature and art, for example, can teach us to challenge dominant visions of sleep, allowing us to see sleep as a place...
AI Is Neither Artificial Or Intelligent
Let me explain why I think that it is in fact a mistake to use the term “artificial intelligence” to refer to these systems....
What Happens To Your Music If Your Streaming Service Goes Away?
The reason I’m screwed is that Spotify listeners’ ability to access their collection in the far-out future will be contingent on the company maintaining...
TikTok Has Become Broadcast TV
The algorithm ends up being a centralizing force; although the viewing options on TikTok can feel limitless, the reality is that you are being...