Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why It’s Impossible To Get Restaurant Reservations In New York City
In New York, the neighborhood restaurant doesn’t have much room for neighbors anymore... Reservations are scooped up fourteen days in advance by residents of...
The Complications Of Collecting Rare Books
A book’s demand, condition, publishing history, whether it is signed or inscribed, and even the timing of when a book enters the market are...
LA Philharmonic Taps Dallas Symphony CEO As Its New Leader
Kim Noltemy’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for the L.A. Phil, which must find someone to take the reins as the organization’s music...
Has Taylor Swift Transcended Critics?
There has long been a disconnect between how music critics and Swifties consume Taylor Swift’s work, but never before has that split been so...
Rather Than Something To Be Avoided, Anxiety Helps Focus Our Creativity
Even if we are fated to anxiety by our very nature, we needn’t be anxious about being anxious. Contra those who would abolish every...
What Matters In The Age Of Distraction
For years, we have heard a litany of reasons why our capacity to pay attention is disturbingly on the wane. Technology hounds us. Modern...
What Does The Rise Of AI Writing Suggest About Human Creativity?
If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity? What, if anything, sets us...
Astonishing Ancient Construction Found In France
Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) unearthed the monument while excavating a prehistoric site in the eastern commune of Marliens. - Smithsonian
Art Gallery Of Ontario Strike Revealed A Class Divide
If the union made scant material progress, the strike looks mainly like a huge strategic error on the AGO’s part. -- The Globe & Mail
How Daniel Radcliffe Got Past Harry Potter
When he’d auditioned for a British TV adaptation of David Copperfield, it was less out of great hope or ambition than because he’d been having...
What Scientists Are Telling Us About Our Relationship With Music
More and more, science is allowing us to understand our attraction to music and what it does for us — and consequently, what makes...
Australian Arts Organizations Struggle With Inflation In Costs
Unfortunately, it’s not only large-scale music festivals that are copping severe losses, as many other vital players within the performing arts are battling rising...
How Your Sense Of Time Impacts Your Creativity
When it comes to how you would ideally plan your days, the research suggests that people differ, with some more drawn to clock time...
What Does Culture Look Like Without Nightlife?
Last year, 125 grassroots music venues closed permanently and 1,293 pubs shut their doors across Britain. According to the Night Time Industries Association, more than 3,000 pubs, clubs...
Mind Blown: The Vegas Sphere As Experience
I don’t know whether the Sphere is the future of live music—it’s very expensive, both to build and attend, and the venue’s path to...
What Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway Right Now
The Tony nominations, announced in New York on Tuesday morning, paint a portrait of another year of transition on Broadway. - Los Angeles Times
Art Isn’t Supposed To Be Safe
Here on my screen was the distillation of a peculiar American illness: namely, that we have a profound and dangerous inclination to confuse art...
Gordon Cox: Ten Takeaways From This Year’s Tony Nominations
With a season packed to the brim with late openers vying for awards attention, the 2024 Tony nominations were full of unexpected twists and turns. Here...
Your TV Is Spying On You
Back in the day, a TV was a TV, a commercial was a commercial, and a computer was a computer. They have now been...
Marrying Arts And Tech In The Building So They Can Feed Off One Another
At the new gateway to the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology the 180,000-square-foot Student Hall for Exploration and Development offers views into...
What’s The Ideal Length Of A Movie?
According to Talker Research (formerly OnePoll US), an online survey conducted in April with 2,000 Americans concluded that respondents opted for 92 minutes as...
St. Lawrence String Quartet To Call It Quits
After 34 renowned seasons and acclaim around the world, the SLSQ will disband as an ensemble this year, but its members will remain active...
Congress Has Mishandled TikTok
It’s quite fair to worry, as Congress does, that TikTok’s mass collection of personal data can pose a threat to our data. Yet Meta,...
Is Art Therapy?
In the same way that a run of the mill Netflix film tells us little about the human experience, the therapeutic language saturating contemporary...
Menand: Academic Freedom Under Attack
What kind of right is the right to academic freedom? Is it a legal right or a moral one? This question, long a subject...
