Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Resignation Over £6M Artificial Hill In London Park Meant To Lure Tourists
“With regret, I have accepted the resignation of my deputy leader, Melvyn Caplan, who led the mound project. We have also instigated a thorough...
Olympic TV Viewing Might Have Been Down, But Streaming Ratings Exploded
YouTube said, Olympics content was viewed more than 190 million times per day during Tokyo, five times more than the average daily views during...
The Extraordinarily Improbable Path To Publication For This Booker Nominee
After many rejections, An Island was published by tiny indie press Holland House in a print run of a mere 500 copies owing to the pandemic....
Twitter Changed Its Font. Users Aren’t Happy
The font that they’re calling Chirp is extremely similar to GT America, which is itself based on Franklin Gothic. They changed the spacing ever so...
Yayoi Kusama Sculpture Swept Out To Sea In Storm
The sculpture, a giant black and yellow polka-dotted pumpkin by the celebrated artist Yayoi Kusama, has stood at the end of a pier on the...
Critic Michael Phillips: Go Inside A Movie Theatre Right Now? Maybe Not!
With the delta variant in our lives now, studios and film distributors who have the nerve to require in-person screenings for review are being...
When NYC Dance Companies’ Artistic Directors Started Talking…
Newly close colleagues and friends, they have shared ideas, problems, strategies and solutions, and for the first time will present a series of performances...
You Believe In Privacy? Turns Out We Believe In Convenience More
Despite this surge in support for privacy, we’re looking at a situation where routine surveillance of citizens will continue to become normalized—not through coercion,...
Study: NYC TV Production Back To Pre-Pandemic Level
After a brutal 2020, TV production was one of the first industries back to work in the city and continues to advance. - Deadline
Justice For College Improv!
Eliminate the distinction between collegiate and professional improv, because there is none. We henceforth reject the label “amateur improvisers.” “Improvisers” is embarrassing enough, we...
Saving The News? We Need To Rethink The News
More and more observers are agreeing that a wholesale rethinking of how news is produced is necessary if rigorous, trustworthy journalism is going to...
The Problem With Novels About Life With The Internet
Ephemerality is the intractable problem plaguing most writing about the internet... Even if we’re stuck with social media for the long haul... its trends...
Would Extinction Be Such A Bad Thing?
Since we are considering whether extinction might be better than continuing to exist, the question arises whether some pains could be so great that...
Evel Knievel Museum Moving From Kansas To Las Vegas
According to a report on Monday, the museum dedicated to the career of Robert Craig Knievel, who became known for his death-defying stunts and...
Ellen Havre Weis, 64, Founder Of The Museum Of Modern Mythology
The museum was a once renowned San Francisco tourist destination where a vinyl Michelin Man rubbed elbows with a lifesize statue of Colonel Sanders. - The...
How Will The Humanities Record The COVID Plague?
The account by the Greek historian and general, Thucydides (460-400BC), of how the Athenians responded to their virulent plague in the fifth century, directly or indirectly...
The Physics Behind Executing This Common Gymnastics Move
If the wolf turn was just about balancing on one foot, it probably wouldn't be in an Olympic-level beam routine. It's the spin that...
How Museums Are Responding To Climate Change
After all, museums aren’t much more than glammed-up, oversized attics, right? How high could their carbon footprint really be? - Washington Post
A Smaller Edinburgh Fringe Festival — Is It Better?
For some in a city with a population of only around 500,000, a break from the Fringe last year, followed by a much smaller...
Instagram Is Turning Away From Photos To Videos. Artists Are Angry
The move has the artistic community seeing Pantone 032. Though there’s no way of knowing how many artists, architects and photographers have left the app,...
What Happens To Pop Music Stars When Recording Labels Lose Confidence
Stats from UK music trade body BPI say that only one in 10 signed artists are expected to succeed commercially, and if the...
How Seattle’s Last Remaining Video Rental Store Plans To Go National
Scarecrow has approximately 140,000 titles, on physical media. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu — combined — have approximately one-third of that, and the ephemeral...
China Will Ban Karaoke Songs With “Illegal” Content
According to one CNN report, a song called "Fart" was blacklisted. The lyrics of the song read: "There are some people in the world...
We’re Being Cajoled To Be Positive. It’s Not Helpful
The pressure to try to adopt positivity as a constant state of being has begun to feel exhausting. Some have gone as far as...
Cautionary Tale For Publishers: Andrew Cuomo’s Book About Dealing With The Pandemic
When the manuscript began circulating, several major publishing companies vied for it in a frenzied auction, with bids soaring into the seven figures. -...
