Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Math Plays A Role In All The Arts
The connections between mathematics and music have been celebrated since at least as far back as the Pythagoreans. However, though there has been writing...
The Tyranny Of Emoji Reactions
As a matter of official policy, reactions are supposed to relieve you of the burden of writing out a full response. But all of...
Want Your Dancers To Be More Creative? Help Them Also To Be Creative Outside...
Kerry Nicholls has worked as a choreographer, teacher and consultant, as well as associate artistic director to Rojo at English National Ballet. Rather than help...
Guthrie Theatre Chooses New Managing Director
Trisha Kirk has been a member of the Guthrie team since 1985 and has held various positions, including season ticket manager, box office manager,...
An AI-Created Performance Of George Carlin Demonstrates What’s Wrong With AI
The special, tastefully titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” is one of the most unpleasant things ostensibly produced for entertainment purposes that I have ever...
Appreciating Joan Acocella
On the page, her fabulous erudition was melded to a frankness that was so unaffected as to seem effortless. Actually—a very Joan word—simplicity is...
Art Fairs Are Expensive And Less Effective For Galleries Selling. Still, The Galleries Can’t...
Anecdotally, the increasing costs of fair stands and their associated shipping, travel and entertainment budgets were already taking quite a toll pre-pandemic, but inflation...
Do You Speak To Yourself? Is It Speech? In Words?
The philosopher Peter Carruthers, who has written a fair amount, and variously, about inner speech, has argued that inner speech may have specifically arisen...
Pittsburgh Ballet Set Attendance Records For 2023’s “Nutcracker.” Maybe It’s Time To Bring Back...
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre once had a live orchestra for all of its “Nutcracker” performances, but in an ugly move that still rankles local musicians,...
How TV Has Lost Its Way (Looking At You Netflix and HBO)
Eventually, TV’s contraction will yield a new Netflix, a new HBO, looking to exploit a desire for bold programming. In the meantime, this year’s...
How Algorithmic Curation Has (Is) Changing Culture
It homogenizes, and it silos. It’s the commons, but with gatekeepers. There’s never been anything like it! But it’s really just an extension of...
This Year’s World Monument Fund Preservation Projects
This year’s efforts include responses to last year’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and repairing damage in Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing war. - Artnet
Turns Out Louisa May Alcott Wrote Under Pseudonym
One of the pseudonyms is believed to be E. H. Gould, including a story about her house in Concord, Massachusetts, and a ghost story along...
The Doctor Musicians
Some reached the level where a career as either a professional musician or a doctor lay before them, before choosing the unquestionably sounder career...
Why Don’t Arts Organizations Pay More Attention To Their Digital Presence?
What is often the most engaged touch point with patrons is often also one of the most forgotten (and underinvested) areas in arts organizations. -...
Growing Number Of Countries Call For Limits On Streaming Platforms
The international campaign argues that the independence and viability of the global screen industry will remain under threat unless mandatory quotas for local content...
Why Is It So Difficult To Define Consciousness?
One problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is...
Algorithms Are Flattening Our Taste
"For us consumers, they are making us more passive just by feeding us so much stuff, by constantly recommending things that we are unlikely...
Conde Nast Is Folding Pitchfork Music Magazine Into GQ And Laying Off Staff
The move will result in an undetermined number of layoffs at the website, including the loss of Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel. - Daily Beast
How Video Game Music Is Changing Composers And Audiences
The impact of video game music has helped the music industry by creating a new audience for the classical orchestra. Popular concert cover albums of game...
Is Social Media The Fuel For Populists? (It’s Complicated)
Populists in particular latch on to social media today as a way to connect directly with people, bypassing restraints on their behavior that political...
Why Do Coffee Shops Look So Much The Same? Algorithms That Drive The Generic
Of course, there have been examples of such cultural globalisation going back as far as recorded civilisation. But the 21st-century generic cafes were remarkable...
Study: Which Is The World’s Prettiest Language?
On a scale of 1 to 100, all fell between 37 and 43, and most in a bulge between 39 and 42 (see chart...
Education Standardization Has Been A Disaster For Our Students
The majority of the country has now signed up to a standardized and rigid curriculum that treats overworked teachers as untrustworthy slackers who need...
A Small Arts Organization In Australia Loses Its Funding Prompting Questions About How Impact...
The decision raises questions about the financial health and sustainability of small to medium arts organisations, the assessment models for federal funding and the...