Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
King Charles’ Official Portrait: Really Really Red
His entire body is bathed in a sea of crimson, so his face appears to be floating.
India Blacklists Critics Abroad, Including Citizens
A brochure issued in July 2021 on the OCI website says that if the status is cancelled for any of the reasons stated, the...
How YouTube Became Most-Watched
YouTube is consistently the most watched streaming service in the U.S. on a TV in the U.S. every month, even beating Netflix and Amazon’s...
How Alice Munro Reinvigorated The Short Story
What Munro did was not so much write about women as write from inside them. When her characters don’t understand exactly what they’re feeling, she expresses it in...
The Art Of Constant Sharing (And Being In The Moment)
Claire Bishop argues that our smartphone-induced state of distraction can also be generative. The art work, she writes, “is less self-important, less total;...
How Alice Munro Was Deeply Tied To Her Southwestern Ontario Roots
So strong are the associations between Munro and her origins in southwestern Ontario that for some, the area around Huron County came to be...
How Game Theory Is Improving The Accuracy Of AI
The new work, which uses games to improve AI, stands in contrast to past approaches, which measured an AI program’s success via its mastery...
“Mockingbird” Sets New Touring Record
For the one-week, eight performance engagement at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA (May 7-12, 2024), the play grossed $2,286,768.75, setting a record for...
Inside The Brutal Murder Of NYC Gallery Star Brent Sikkema
"Within hours, Brent became the focus of a high-profile police investigation, reverberating across a horrified international art world that revered him. The murder weapon,...
NYC Building Film Production To Rival Hollywood
The aggressive studio expansions signal New York’s continued determination to double down on the film business and compete with its main rival, Los Angeles,...
Steve Martin Writes About Being Friends With Peter Schjeldahl
Peter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense....
Are You A Music Or Lyrics Person?
Do you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? - Dirt
YouTube Is Now The Second-Most Popular TV Network
Once a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights...
A Four-Step Method To Spot Fake News
When it comes to not falling for misinformation, being aware of our human fallibilities, such as our quickness to believe what we want to...
Assessing The “Devastating” Cyberattack On Christie’s
It was not immediately clear whether it is only the public-facing website that is affected, or whether any client information was at risk. Christie’s...
LA’s East West Players Chooses Lily Tung Crystal As Its New Director
Tung Crystal is currently the artistic director of Theater Mu, the largest Asian American theater company in the Midwest, as part of its first...
Inflation Has Wrecked UK Musicians’ Ability To Make Money
“Music labels, even if they’re small, still have such a hold over artists who can’t afford to pay for production themselves. You’re always owing...
Using Technology To Enhance Audience Engagement
The performances that work best for both haptic tours and live audio descriptions are dance and theater productions that offer a mix of visual...
It Sure Seems Like AI Is Not Living Up To The Hype
"It feels like another sign that A.I. is not even close to living up to its hype. In my eyes, it’s looking less like...
The Art Of Memory: Forgetting Might Be A Tool For Remembering
Thinking of memory as an adaptive trait has a less obvious and perhaps more interesting corollary: “Viewed through this lens, it is apparent that...
Like, These Filler Words Have A Purpose
They call it “filler,” and it’s hard not to regard it as something bordering on the sublinguistic, an almost intolerable torturing of the magnificent...
Saxophonist David Sanborn, 78
Sanborn was known for luxurious saxophone melodies on songs including "Maputo," but his sound — informed by R&B and global funk— and his legacy...
New Visions For Broadway Choreography
This broader vision of theatrical choreography is worth noticing and applauding. - The New York Times
Kathleen Battle Returns To The Met. Tim Page Reports
Ms. Battle was greeted with an immediate and prolonged standing ovation—the first of many—from her eager audience as she walked onstage in a black...
Alice Munro, 92
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario....
