Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
This Year’s Tonys – A Cry For Normalcy
At the end of a bumpy Broadway season that started late and was repeatedly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the once-ordinary rituals of Tonys time have...
Classics? How Do We Define Them?
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25...
Love Wordle? Well, Here’s Artle
A new game, Artle, launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts...
The Einstein Franchise – Rapacious And Wealthy
Einstein had been a well-paid man. His Princeton salary of $10,000 – roughly $180,000 in today’s money – was set by the university to...
Dallas’ ATT Performing Arts Center Picks a New Director
Warren Tranquada, comes to Dallas from Newark, N.J., where for 13 years he has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the...
Archaeologists Find 4,300-Year-old Egyptian Tomb
Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser,...
How To Make Good Ideas Successful In Teams
The ideas that made it shared a process we came to call “voice cultivation”: the collective, social process through which employees help lower-power team...
Fascinating: Who’s Rich In America And What They Do
Comparing data from the appendix of the economists’ study with data from the SUSB Annual Data Tables put out by the Census Bureau, I...
Why Prosperity Doesn’t Make You Happy
True liberal education is the place where restless hearts can become discerning, and where the closed self can become an open soul. It is...
The Fracturing Of Antagonistic Criticism
The bourgeois public sphere was always limited. And there are forms of fracturing and dispersal that have completely eroded the already fragile prominence of...
Have NFTs Busted? Not Really
An NFT has value because the buyer and their community believe it has value—which is true for all art and collectibles. And as time...
The Case For Government Investment In The Arts
Does it register, for example, that for every $1 billion turned over in the arts, around 4,300 new jobs are created? Compared to the construction industry...
Indianapolis Museum Newfields Gets a New Director
Colette Pierce Burnette, who is originally from Cleveland, is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. - Indianapolis Star
Are You Still You If You’ve Gone Through A Transformational Experience?
What if a disease transforms your mind, impairing your memory or causing radical personality change? Would this new ‘you’ be a different person entirely...
An Art Consultant Talks About The Chaotic State Of The Art Market
Today, it’s quite confusing. Certain auction houses are mimicking the collectibles market. Everything is a tchotchke to flip. You have sneakers, dinosaur bones, some...
Scientists Want To Know Which Problems Are Too Difficult
Computer scientists want to know whether all the problems we hope to solve can be solved efficiently, in a reasonable amount of time —...
What Music And Physics Have In Common
Just like with classical music, physics has been populated by architects and dreamers, careful workmen and inspired explorers, bursts of geniuses and sustained acts...
A New Generations Of Deaf Artists (And Arts)
While the level of deaf visibility may feel new to most, we need to understand that scores of talented deaf writers and creatives have...
An LA Studio Collective That’s Something Different
“It’s something way beyond a conventional studio, where it’s just an artist working on paintings. They’re walking through each other’s studios, they’re promoting each...
The Atlantic To Launch A New Book Imprint
Atlantic Editions will publish between six and 12 nonfiction titles per year, all trade paperbacks, sold for $12.85. Each book will be “a single-author...
When Ukrainian Music Thrived
“This is an excellent moment to think about why we attach the term ‘greatness’ to Russian, but not Ukrainian, culture. So why do we...
Why a Heightened Concern For Cultural Appropriation Now?
"It's easier than ever to steal a motif or a craft technique and transfer it on to a piece of clothing that is either...
Wondering About The Orchestra Canon…
Simon Woods: “Redefining the canon” strikes me as a fundamentally pointless endeavor, as it still allows that there is some kind of objective set of...
Alex Ross: Why The South Dakota Symphony Is One Of America’s Most Interesting Orchestras
"I’ve experienced very few concerts at which a classical-music organization seemed so integral to its community." - The New Yorker
100+ UK Music Festivals Pledge To Take Tougher Stand On Sexual Violence
One of the key promises is that “all allegations of sexual harassment, assault and violence will be taken seriously, acted upon promptly and investigated”....
