Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Case Against Historians Weighing In On Current Affairs
"I’ve been writing for years in opposition to professional historians pressing—on the public, on the media, on politicians and judges—a sense of the hyperurgent...
Christopher Knight, Art Detective, Hunts Down A Mis-Dated Diego Rivera
LACMA’s website and a gallery wall label said the painting dates to “around 1939.” But that couldn’t be correct. It’s hard to photograph a...
Remaking The Alamo: How To Tell The Story?
If the new museum focuses too much on slavery or other unsavory aspects of Texas history, it may deter visitors to one of the...
A Neurocognitive Ability Scientists Are Linking To Creativity
By examining how creative people process salient information, the researchers aimed to uncover a fundamental mechanism that could explain the unique attentional patterns observed...
How The London Philharmonic Approaches Programming
In the States, unions are very strong and rigorous, and they protect their members until they retire. I found the British scene to be...
Remembering Shelley Duvall’s Olive Oyl Dance
Dance “people” will recognize the innate beauty of her pose that is rooted in the cartoon version of OO as gangly. Even in her...
The Idea Of “Timeless” Art Is Transitory
There was in the 19th century, a growing feeling that, far from there being universal standards of taste and beauty, every age needed to...
Inside Out 2 Becomes Pixar’s Top-Earning Movie Of All Time
Inside Out 2 finished Tuesday with $1.251 billion in global ticket sales, including $543.5 million in North America, where it’s already the third-biggest animated pic...
Florida Theatres Offer To Give Up Grants If Desantis Restores Arts Funding For Others
Leaders of The Orlando Fringe and Tampa Fringe described the governor’s description as inaccurate on Thursday at a news conference, but they said it...
Chicago’s American Academy Of Art To Close After 100 Years
The announcement blamed the pandemic and sought to frame the school’s demise in a broader context of falling student numbers: “The decision to close...
Inside The Fight To Save Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch
The story of the sprawling former estate of pop singer Michael Jackson took a new turn this week when Neverland Ranch stood in the...
Galleries: Shaping The Palm Springs Scene
The pandemic certainly shut down the social art scene. Inevitably, collectors became more comfortable purchasing art sight unseen. People of means found themselves restricted...
Is This The LA Philharmonic’s Next Music Director?
In L.A., Chan’s appearances at Walt Disney Concert Hall have already proved notable. Last year, she got her 15 minutes of unwanted viral fame...
Work Has Become Endless Meetings
The share of the typical white-collar workday spent in meetings has steadily increased for the past few decades, and it continues to grow by...
Rethinking How Bridges Function As Public Space
The span’s 25,000 square meters is so spacious that the bridge can also double as a new public square. Flanked at both ends with...
LA’s New Basketball Palace Is Stuffed With Art
Sculpture, murals and digital art installations by artists including Refik Anadol, Jennifer Steinkamp, Charles Gaines and Glenn Kaino will be on view throughout the...
Why Music Festivals Are So Vulnerable
The closest the festival circuit has to a trade body – the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) – lists 50 festivals as cancelled, postponed or closed...
The Art Of Casting
“If a show was a painting, we would do the initial sketch.” - The Guardian
How To Make Public Radio Sustainable? Combine Newsrooms
In the greater Appalachia region, the newsroom will bring together six public media outlets in Kentucky and Tennessee, with the possibility of adding more....
NYPhil Chief Suddenly Resigns
His departure comes as the orchestra’s musicians and the administration are in the midst of heated talks over a new labor contract; the current...
Report: Film And TV Production In LA Down 40 Percent From “Peak TV”
The tracking company found that production in the United States was down about 40% in the second quarter of 2024 compared to peak-TV levels...
Report: Cultural Projects Underway Internationally In 2023
We find the volume of new projects – both announced and completed – increasing, while we see the value of investment decreasing, reflecting the...
Shelley Duvall, 75
Before she fled Hollywood for her native Texas in the mid-1990s, Duvall had a thriving career as a versatile, one-of-a-kind actress and head of...
The Other Carnegie Halls
At the turn of the 20th century, he gifted six concert halls to different Steel City suburbs. The musical halls were built with uniformly...
Spotify Is Becoming A Social Network Around Music
Combined with the app’s 2023 revamp, which added a TikTok-like discovery feed, artist profiles where creators can hawk merchandise and concert tickets, as well as...
