Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
When Blogs Changed Our Relationships With Music
By the mid-aughts, starting a blog was easier than ever. Streaming hadn’t yet taken over our listening habits, but Web connections were speedy enough...
How Stan Lee Reinvented The Comics
The 1960s were Stan Lee’s most astonishing decade, during which he came up with ideas and scripts for the first appearances of such heroes as the...
Artists’ Studios Are Less Refuges As They Are Places Of Tumult
The Artist’s Studio describes how a noisome cockpit of lust, crime and virtuosity produced innovations in how art gets made, and by whom. - The...
Are We So Addicted To Narratives That We’re Corrupted By Them?
Peter Brooks’s fear is that we are so over-saturated with story that we have become undiscerning consumers, slipping too willingly into the familiar rhythms...
A Short History Of Art Hung Upside Down
Those museums don't always get it right. - The Art Newspaper
By Design: Why There Are No Seats In New York City’s New Train Station
One of the animating principles of modern civic life is to make public resources increasingly inaccessible in order to prevent public resources from being...
Study: A Third Of Theatre Directors Are Considering Quitting Over Working Conditions
When asked why, participants’ responses included how "theatre direction just doesn’t pay a living wage", with another claiming "the pay and hours are terrible"....
Redesigning Los Angeles To Make It Cooler
In a city where tree shade is unequally distributed and half the surfaces are dark asphalt or concrete, the solution to increasing temperatures could lie...
Poetry Is Dead Now. We Can Place The Time Of Death
Modest as the festivities have been, I am certain that in 100 years there will be no poem whose centenary is the object of...
Mercedes Bass’ Plan For The Fort Worth Symphony
Relying on her own keen sense of how classical music should sound, she developed a plan that would bring together the finest musicians, outstanding...
How The Culture Wars Are Tearing Apart Museums
The saga of the Philip Guston exhibition, “Philip Guston Now,” that was postponed in late 2020 demonstrates how museums now suffer from an identity...
Listening Plan: A January To Understand Today’s Classical Music
The boundaries of classical music are ever more porous and open, spilling into other forms and all to the good. Give up prejudice or...
Why Sondheim Resonates With The Younger Generation
My students could appreciate his skill as a musical dramatist, his innovations as a craftsman, his inventive wit and longing harmonic lines. But what...
Understanding The Genius Of Thelonius Monk
Neither a cult reputation as a pioneer of bebop nor American canonization quite does justice to Monk, who was simply one of the most...
A Rookie Orchestra Recording By A Youth Orchestra, Finalist For A Grammy
The album, which is untitled, came together after six weeks of remote instruction followed by in person socially distant rehearsals and four days of recording sessions...
Does AI Make Plagiarism Undetectable? We College Professors Are Smarter Than That!
"For me, this new AI bot is not scarey, or even revolutionary. It’s just the latest con for those who would seek to dupe...
A Comprehensive List Of Works Now In The Public Domain As Of This Week
Every year, Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, puts together an extensive list of expiring U.S. copyrights,...
How Failure And Disillusionment Fuel Accomplishment
This turns out to be a running theme — how a strain of perfectionism can doom a pursuit of failure to, well, failure. -...
Cable TV’s Fierce Downward Subscriber Plunge
Today, roughly two-thirds of U.S. households pay for a cable, satellite or fiber TV subscription, down from 79% in 2017 and 85% in 2007. - Axios
The Ukrainian Ballet Company Fighting From The Stage
"I still think about how I could do more for my country. I think about this every day, but while my friends and family...
AI Art As Commodity Might Make Sense. But That Is Not What Art Is
In a culture that has commodified art to the degree ours has, it was probably inevitable that so many would conclude art is nothing...
Why Irish Art Galleries Need Help
It irks Kevin Kavanagh that the role played by private art galleries is not valued by the Arts Council, from which they get no...
Inside The Long-running HarperCollins Publishing Strike
"For almost a year now, it’s been clear that the HarperCollins People Team and the lawyers from our parent company, News Corp, hope that...
Kennedy Center Honors Score Big TV Ratings
The two-hour special averaged about 5.1 million total viewers, which was up 18% compared to last year’s audience of about 4.3M. It was the...
The Hundreds Of Museums Showcasing LA’s Diversity
These museums, hundreds of them, reflect the idiosyncrasies and specialized interests of their founders while offering a window into the ethnic, cultural and historical...
