Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
An Alternative History About The Dawn Of Humans
Graeber and Wengrow offer a history of the past 30,000 years that is not only wildly different from anything we’re used to, but also...
Surprise — You’re In Charge! How A Family Publishing Empire Changed Hands
Being handed control of the company, which is valued at $1.2 billion, has made Iole Lucchese, 55, one of the most powerful women in...
Why This Jazz Drummer Finally Left New York
I lived there 19 years. As we were coming out of lockdown, it seemed incredible to me that New York was becoming an even...
Deepfakes — The End Of Truth?
Like most digital technologies, the quality of deepfakes is increasing at an alarming rate, and it is clear that even the most complex deepfake...
Say Goodbye To Giant Skyscrapers
Planning applications for tall buildings in London plummeted by a third last year. Has the age of piling people into great glass shafts, of...
The Virtual Gallery Revolution
With technology that creates fantastical game worlds readily available, its creators could’ve set it on Tatooine if they wanted to, or at least the...
A Long-Missing Stone Masterpiece, Discovered In A Front Yard
“It was like finding the Holy Grail. William Edmondson worked in Nashville, so who would ever dream that a piece would be in St....
Diagnosing A Post-Liberal Culture
Postliberals, as Matthew Rose argues in his new book A World After Liberalism, agree on little. They know something has gone wrong, and they suspect...
Of Authenticity, Experience And The Right To Standing
In my experience, when people say they need to “listen to the most affected”, it isn’t because they intend to set up Skype calls...
The New Activism: Art Attacking The Institutions — Any Institution, Including Those Who Show...
One irony of contemporary art that critiques or transcends the institution is just how central the institution remains to it. Indeed, the complexity of the...
John McWhorter On Campus Culture And The Bright Sheng Case: Radicalism Or Progressivism?
It's not "the students’ fragility, it’s that their approach illustrates the difference between radicalism and progressivism. It’s an example of a strain of thought...
Bright Sheng And Campus Culture Run Amok? Or…
To some observers, it’s a case of campus “cancel culture” run amok. To others, the incident is symbolic of an arrogant academic and artistic...
Is Hunter Biden’s Art Career A Problem?
Experts have raised alarms that individuals might buy the artworks – expected to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 – to try to curry favor and gain...
The Team Orchestrating Your Brain’s Consciousness
This new framework points to a view of the brain as a fusion of the local and the global, arranged in a hierarchical manner. -...
Visa Delays Are Crippling US Music World
The delays have hampered many industries, but they are particularly upending classical music, which relies on stars from all over the world to make a...
How Opera Invented The Modern Fan
Theater impresarios quickly recognized them as their ideal audience: the true-blue fans who reliably subscribed to the whole opera season; bought programs, autographed photos; and drummed...
Is There A Role For Art In A Post-Liberal World?
The liberal beliefs that underpin today’s international art world are only shared by a tiny minority of the global population. Yet the West’s art...
An Audio Producer On The Process Of Becoming Deaf
I know neither birdsong nor silence, and yet am acutely aware that countless people struggling with their own version of “life is unfair” would...
The Benefit Of Watching Horror Movies
People can derive pleasure from recreational horror, whether in a haunted attraction or in front of the screen. For some, it is about maximum...
Tracking Arts Unemployment: Still Grim
As of August 2021, the national rate had fallen below 6% while the sector rate increased to over 10% once again. - SMU Data...
Chicago Art Institute Fires 150 Docents
Once you cut through the blather, the letter basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by...
Chicago Art Institute Board Chair Explains Why 150 Docents Were Fired
Robert M. Levy: "In order to succeed, the Art Institute and our peer group must let go of the museum tenet of “this is...
Rotten Tomatoes And Measuring The Divide Between Critics And Audience
The new Disney Plus documentary on Dr Anthony Fauci, which explores the personal side of the controversial figure, has a certified 91 percent approval...
Twelve Predictions About The Future Of Music
Dead musicians will start by giving tours in concert halls, but as the cost of the technology goes down, they will begin performing everywhere....
Raymond Gniewek, 89, Was Met Opera Orchestra’s Concertmaster For 43 Years
Mr. Gniewek (pronounced NYEH-vik), a violinist whose solos invariably drew acclaim, was just 25 in 1957 when he was named the orchestra’s concertmaster. He...
