Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What Social Media Needs To Learn From Traditional Media
Even if there were a dozen major social networks, each one would still need to deal with the content dilemmas plaguing the existing juggernauts....
Poetry: The New Digital Divide
Online discussion has created a new landscape for the consumption and production of poetry. To outsiders, there is either a swarm of names or...
Big Changes In Theatre During The Pandemic, Right? Well…
In many interviews I’ve included a simple question: Apart from a pandemic-necessitated lockdown and now a tentative reopening, have you actually seen change in...
Twitter As A Critical Medium?
I learned a lot about myself as a critic while live-tweeting, and a lot about criticism: about how and when opinions are formed, and...
Turnaround: Benin Artists Offer Contemporary Bronzes To British Museum
The Ahiamwen Guild of artists and bronze casters says it wants to change the terms of the debate by giving the British Museum contemporary...
New Metropolitan Opera Radio Host Named
Only the fifth person to serve in this capacity, Debra Lew Harder follows in the footsteps of former legendary voices of the Met, Milton...
French Pianist Colette Maze, 107, Releases Her Sixth Album
It's that humor, a sense of optimism and her beloved piano that have buttressed and comforted this centenarian through an often difficult life. Maze...
What’s Behind The Proliferation Of All Those Immersive Van Gogh Rooms?
At least five companies — including, controversially, one major museum — have stepped up with immersive exhibits based on the life and work of the famous...
Thirty Years Ago Nirvana Changed Seattle Music Forever
The album represents a moment in time when everything about Seattle culture changed. The very words “Seattle music” meant something different afterward, both in...
The Met Museum Is Selling Art To Raise Money. Should It?
As sloppy as AAMD’s new rule is, being born of a rattled, anxious moment, it’s clear who it’s intended to help, and it’s not...
Honest Brokers And The Clement Greenberg Problem
Greenberg had made it clear that the single most lucrative move for a modern-day critic was to announce the newest new thing, the coming...
BBC Chief Says Culture Wars Make It More Difficult To Be Impartial
"I think the culture wars are raging, I think we've got a real battle on our hands. I walk a tightrope every day on...
Picasso’s Daughter Pays French Taxes With Nine Artworks
“It is an honour for our country to welcome these new artworks by Picasso. They will enrich and deepen our cultural heritage." - ARTnews
What Will Happen To Online Performances When We’re Back In Theatres?
‘We’ve had thousands of years to get good at but virtual connection is new, and we need to do some interrogation of the...
Has Philosophy Really Been Replaced By Science?
A perennial favorite of this alleged replacement of philosophy with science is the claim that, while philosophers haven’t been able to really get ahead...
Why Do We Refer To Some Composers With Only Their Last Name?
Who gets last-name-only treatment and who requires a full identification is a weightier, more politically fraught question than it might initially seem. - San Francisco...
Inside The New Academy Movie Museum
While the May Co. building will be celebrated as a fine work of adaptive reuse, what will ultimately define the Academy Museum is its...
New Movie Academy Museum Succeeds At Celebrating Movies The Oscars Don’t
Perhaps the most notable alcoves of the Academy Museum are those where it resists the obvious, or at least takes a break from celebrating...
Disney CEO: World Is Changing For Talent Contracts
The problem, Bob Chapek said, is that the company has found itself grappling with talent contracts that were struck three or four years ago...
Signature LA: The Richard Neutra Houses
Their stories say something deeper about Neutra’s achievement, which has less to do with stylish surfaces than with underlying rhythms—the search for a shelter...
Why Podcasts Are So Popular (As A Medium)
New research finds that of all media, podcast content generates the greatest degree of consumer concentration. - Inside Radio
It’s A Weird Time To Be A Critic
The instinct to abuse critics is justified by the idea that it is “punching up” at elitist gatekeepers. But unlike Siskel and Ebert, modern...
The Next Era: The “Exponential Age”
The Exponential Age is challenging our assumptions about globalization. A car can be designed in Guiyang and assembled in California with remarkable ease. But...
More Governments Are Censoring Online Content
Governments are limiting or banning applications, content and connectivity itself — and Big Tech companies, rich and powerful as they are, can't or won't...
The News Shared On Facebook Gets Smaller And Smaller
The percent that are about news — defined broadly, including sports and entertainment — is now somewhere less than 4%. It’s something of a niche...