Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Fantastical Tower Proposed For Heart Of Hollywood
The proposed 22-story glass-skinned office tower would create its own bubble-like world with garden levels open to the elements on the 10th and 17th...
San Diego’s New Waterfront Concert Venue Makes A Splash
Of course I am describing a special place, not the kind of home most orchestras could hope to build in their neighbourhood. But the...
Is Social Media Like Alcohol Addiction?
To me, it sounds like alcohol—a social lubricant that can be delightful but also depressing, a popular experience that blends short-term euphoria with long-term...
Wave Of New Plays By Black Playwrights…
The plays are arriving at an existentially challenging moment for Broadway, when theaters have been closed for a year and a half, when the...
Science Works On Explaining How Much Sleep We Need
Although great progress has been made in developing sophisticated models and explaining phenomena such as circadian rhythms, jetlag and details of EEG recordings of...
Body-Shaming In Opera
“Diversity applies to pretty much everybody except fat people,” opera critic Uwe Friedrich tells me. The pressure to conform to a societal ideal of...
Researchers Explore What Juices The Echo Chamber
“You really don’t know whether this person making a good-sounding argument is really smart, is really educated, or whether they’re just reading off something...
How The Pandemic Is Changing How Lincoln Center Works
Usually, our work requires a year or two in advance planning. But now we’re building the plane as we’re flying. So it’s really shown...
Osage Nation Decries Sale Of Important Prehistoric Cave Art
The two-cave system is nestled within a 43-acre stretch of land in Missouri, about 60 miles west of St. Louis. Scholars have called it...
School Mural Altered In LA After Community Complaints
The artwork was part of a 2016 project to place murals around the campus. Two years later, the Wilshire Community Coalition, a group led by...
Why This Musicologist Quit Academia
In recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have...
Dudamel’s Conducting Fellowship Program Is Paying Off Big Time
The main thing these former fellows may take home from L.A. is indoctrination. New music here is part of the daily diet. Dudamel’s curiosity...
See The Six Architecture Finalists for This Year’s Stirling Prize
A bridge, a museum, a mosque... Here's where the best of UK architecture is in 2021. - BBC
Report: Hollywood Streaming Companies Hire More Women Than Traditional Studios
The long-running industry report card finds that in the 2020-21 television season, women accounted for 52% of major characters on streaming programs were women,...
Our Notions Of Privacy Are Ancient. Do They Fit In Our Modern World?
The evolutionary biologist E O Wilson once said of the source of human challenges in the 21st century that ‘we have palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology’. - Psyche
Minoru Yamasaki – The Architect Weighed Down By The World Trade Center
His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex...
How A Jazz Musician Found 30,000 Facebook Followers During COVID
Since shortly after the pandemic effectively closed the world down in March 2020, Jim Clayton’s Danforth area home — more specifically his dining room...
Baryshnikov The Dancer Becomes Baryshnikov The Photographer
“I can see the almost spiritual obsession with dance that I myself have felt, but now observe it from the outside,” Baryshnikov says by...
Reframing Disinformation
“It turns a huge question about the nature of democracy in the digital age – what if the people believe crazy things, and now...
Are We Looking In The Wrong Places For The Sources Of Disinformation?
The Commission on Information Disorder is the latest (and most creepily named) addition to a new field of knowledge production that emerged during the...
The Developing World Is Collapsing Under COVID And Its A Danger To All
Unless the Western world wakes up, and helps out the developing world with vaccines and treatments, we may be facing a situation in which...
An “Epochal” Decline For NYC?
New York City, the financial and business capital of the world, and until very recently a hub for tourists, may well be the canary...
Why Are Cities Still Building Super-tall Buildings?
"I'm almost insulted by the reminder that the high-rise virus continues to spread. Waste of energy, waste of resources, almost impossible to protect indefinitely....
No, Not All Judgments Or Opinions Are Equal
Popular dogmas such as “judgments of artistic value are subjective” and “all judgments of artistic value are equal”, university literature departments have undercut aesthetic...
How Things Change When Your Dance Video Becomes A Viral Sensation
She’s earned a following of more than 250,000 on Instagram and 460,000 on TikTok — as well as amassing 15.3 million likes on TikTok....
