Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The New Yorker: A Magazine Of Words Defined By Iconic Wordless Covers
Beyond the masthead and issue date, no set typography has ever been allowed, maintaining a unique wordless space in magazine publishing where only an...
Why The World Is Fascinated By David Hockney
Since 2020 there have been 32 exhibitions of his work, staged everywhere from the National Gallery in London to Washington DC, Tokyo, California, Ontario,...
Does Music Really Need A Purpose?
I’m inclined to agree with Adorno on at least some of this. I am allergic to the suggestion that music needs to be attached...
Pope Dies And “Conclave” Viewership Surges
The film, which won best picture at the Baftas earlier this year and was nominated for eight Oscars, is available on assorted streaming platforms...
Anti-Streaming: A New Video Store Opens In Brooklyn
Just in time for Easter, the physical video store has risen again. This month, Night Owl Video in Williamsburg became New York City’s first...
Why Did A Chinese Online Censor Help A Critical Writer?
No matter how tactful, restrained and oblique the criticism, the Communist party still detests it. A lot of content is deleted, and accounts on...
Detroit Arts Institutions Stand Up, Stay The Course On Diversity
“We have to resist and persevere,” Barclay said in a video interview. “Attempts to undermine the significance of our culture are nothing new to...
Jacksonville University Axes Music, Theatre
Jacksonville University will cut music and theater programs from its curriculum in a reorganization that will affect about 100 students and cost 40 faculty members...
Broadway Has Its Biggest Non-Holiday Box Office Week Ever
The figure, for 40 shows, is a huge 47% greater than this week last year. Total attendance of 357,319 was 19% more year-over-year. - Deadline
What Does It Mean To Win A Book Award For Translation?
While the International Booker might have heralded a rise in the status of literary translators, is there a commensurate deepening of appreciation for, and...
Producing Theatre Is About So Much More Than Just Producing Shows
We should cherish the miracles that happen on stages all over the country every night, even as we question why theatre needs miracles, when...
The Frick Museum Needed A New Piano. Here’s How They Went About Choosing It
With a team that included Raj Patel, the acoustician who worked on the auditorium, Ney assembled a trio of pianos to choose from, all...
A Short History Of Public Funding In The Arts
Artists and arts organizations have a long legacy of persistence and strategic organizing during periods of political and economic upheaval. - The Conversation
Warning: Australia’s Arts Education System In Crisis
NAAE Chair Dr John Nicholas Saunders said the sector was in crisis after years of cuts to arts education pathways and growing barriers to...
Scientists Believe They’ve Found The Part Of The Brain That Perceives Consciousness
Conscious perception is the ability of human beings to become aware of the stimuli received by their senses. It is a different state from...
Queensland Ballet: An Unexpected Unraveling
The company that former artistic director Li Cunxin turned into a powerhouse with an international reputation is now “beleaguered”, as one headline put it....
What Does It Mean To Be Telling The Truth About America?
What does it mean for something to be improper if the administration’s understanding of what is acceptable excludes anything that might make white Americans...
Netflix’s Big Time Bet On Streaming Live Sports
The stakes are high. WrestleMania, which began in 1985, is being treated as a litmus test - not just for WWE's global expansion, but...
What Happens To Our Culture When Hobbies Get Too Expensive
Hobby inflation, understood in this light, is about much more than price hikes: It’s about the shrinking and possible disappearance of opportunities for people...
Coming To Terms With Richard Serra
Over the past half century the art history industry has produced reams of interpretation, incorporating no shortage of words by Serra himself. The author...
How “Blockbusters” Degraded Hollywood’s Soul
I think Hollywood used to propose itself as a place where artists and creative people could sustain themselves, perhaps even strike it rich, and...
A Mathematical Model To Better Understand Language?
By thinking of language as a mathematical category, Tai-Danae Bradley's been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights. Linguists...
Study Literature? What It Means
As the English degree craters, and the idea of the university itself is under assault in the United States and elsewhere, those of us...
So What Comes After DEI?
Conservatives have painted D.E.I. as a uniform set of programs, ideas, and ideologies. In reality, the term encompasses a wide-ranging set of practices. Still,...
Books Have “No Economic Value” Claims Meta
Meta cited an expert witness who downplayed the books' individual importance, averring that a single book adjusted its LLM's performance "by less than 0.06...
