Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
National Gallery Of Canada Names An Interim Director
She’s taking over from Sasha Suda, who has been at the gallery’s helm for three years but is leaving for the Philadelphia Museum of...
What To Do If You’re Being Canceled
So, this is my answer: if I am being canceled I want my friends — and this includes not only my closest associates, but...
Upending Contemporary Native American Art
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s theory is that it has to do with their trauma of becoming American, which meant severing all ties to their own ancestral...
Screw Up Your Courage. This Is A Great Time To Read “The Greatest Book...
This would be Ulysses, by James Joyce, which came out 100 years ago, and has been commonly heralded as the Best Novel Ever Written. I...
Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre Is Being Renamed. But First We Should Remember Atkinson
For close to 62 years, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre has stood on West 47th Street, so it did 34 years previously as the Mansfield....
Has Streaming Made Us Forget How To Watch Movies?
That’s how most movies are experienced today. They are not, as they were for most of their history, seen. They are watched—on TVs, computers,...
Way Too Much! (Why Streaming Is Choking)
In the fall of 2019, years after it had revolutionized the industry with a slate of boundary-challenging originals and maybe a little drunk with...
How Artists Are Profiting From Twitter
Beneath Twitter's reputation as a shitposter's heaven, art lovers often prefer it to platforms that promote other forms of content (like Instagram), and artists...
The Whispers Are Growing: Google Search Is Broken
The frustration has become a persistent meme: that Google Search, what many consider an indispensable tool of modern life, is dead or dying. For...
The Most-Played Musician Of 2021 In The UK
The most-played artists charts revealed a closer split between genders, with 60:40 male to female. - The Guardian
The Decline Of The Secondhand Book Business
The increase in online buying has meant a reduction in the number of physical outlets, but those that remain have a beadier eye for...
The Gentle Art Of Rejection Letters
If a writer is to be rejected on grounds of style, it might as well be done stylishly. One publisher brilliantly mimicked Gertrude Stein’s...
Understanding A Science Of Progress
For thousands of years, global wealth – at least our best approximations of it – barely budged. But beginning around 150-200 years ago, everything changed....
Another “What’s Killing Classical Music” Theory
It's really "the near-total inability of post-World War II America and Europe to produce more than a small number of classical works that any normal...
Publishing Is Afflicted With Groupthink
People in publishing are increasingly nervous of causing offence. I have been told that some books are being rejected not because the publishers don’t...
Can NFTs Stop Art Theft?
In theory, artists can indicate that a file containing their work, whether it is digital art or a reproduction of a physical piece, belongs...
The Ukrainian Dancers Dancing In Paris
“Before the war started we danced for our company and each dancer felt like they danced for themselves,” he says, “But now we are...
The Mindset Behind Censoring Others
The censor is convinced that “some forms of expression are so vile or dangerous that they should be restricted, or so valuable that they...
Old People Are Turning To TikTok To Redefine Aging
Many older people are turning to TikTok – best known as a playground for Gen Z – to reframe the experience of ageing and...
The Surprising Musical Inspiration That Led To Invention Of The Post-It Note
On April 6 1980, Post-it Notes as we know them hit the shelves, and a year later they were also launched in Canada and...
The “Scorched Earth” Option: San Antonio Symphony Board Goes For Broke (Literally)
In comments to TPR, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the symphony's former music director, blasted the board's move as a scorched-earth solution. The maestro has led a behind-the-scenes...
Struggling With Creativity In A Time When Everyone Thinks Everything’s Creative
When I hear people in the corporate world talking about creativity and storytelling — how what they’re really doing is ‘telling a story,’ how everything is...
Acclaimed French Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91
Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a...
Dumb Thieves Steal Million-Dollar Sculpture To Sell For Scrap Metal
Two suspects were apprehended on June 9 after investigators determined that the oblivious pair had peddled the art objects—weighing in at around 2,200 pounds...
Thieves Stole Metal Gates By An Iconic Northwest Sculptor To Melt Them Down. Now...
The Seattle Police Department, savvy to metal theft, one of the fastest-growing crimes in our region, quickly recovered the cut-up pieces of gate through...
