Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
What’s With All the Bizarre Stuff Behind TV Credits?
All of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture...
NY’s BargeMusic Loses Its Barge
Housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing just below the Brooklyn Bridge, the floating concert hall welcomed chamber-music cognoscenti and...
The Sad Sorry History Of Propaganda Art
There will never be an end to manipulation by image. All we can do is understand its past in the hope of being able...
Why Have Republicans Been Slamming LA After The Fires? Something To Do With Artists?
There is a particular ugliness, a virulent ignorance, to the reaction in this case that speaks to a broader sense of unease in the...
The Rise And Fall Of Greenwich Village’s Bohemia
The unique conditions of the Village produced an environment in which genius could make sense of itself and wheat could be separated from chaff....
Why Do Some People Seek Self-Insight More Than Others?
My colleagues and I have been looking into what we call the ‘self-insight motive’ and we’ve found it might be more accurate to see...
The 2025 Grammys Will Proceed As Scheduled Despite LA Fires
The music industry was questioning whether the show would continue with its scheduled date, despite the fact that the Los Angeles wildfires have devastated...
What Will Canada Look Like Without The CBC?
In a time of streaming, the broadcaster’s prime-time share of 4.4 percent speaks to the end times of broadcast TV or the remarkable lack...
What Shakespeare Has To Say About LA’s Devastation
Shakespeare helps me envisage the unimaginable, and a speech from “The Tempest” has been running through my mind since images of charred sections of Pacific Palisades...
A Dance Company For Neurodivergent Participants
Azara addresses a gap in the dance world: the need for spaces where people who have autism, A.D.H.D. or other conditions that fall under...
Warhol Museum Picks A New Leader
Mario Rossero is currently the executive director of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), a professional membership organization for visual arts, design and media...
Is London’s West End Dying? Not So Fast, Says Lyn Gardner
Writing theatre’s obituary based on misinformation or dismissing the entire art form as a turn-off on the basis of a single theatre visit (nobody...
Why Haven’t Claes Oldenburg’s Sculptures Found Permanent Home In New York City?
Incredibly, for an artist who made New York his home for nearly 70 years, none of the fanciful public sculptures like these — the...
US Book Sales Ticked Up In 2024
In 2024, sales gradually improved over the course of the year and saw a 1.6% increase in the fourth quarter. For the full year,...
Creativity Versus Skills
Art that is primarily skill-based -- graphic design, stock music or images, text and marketing, etc -- can be created faster and often better than human artists, and at lower cost. This is particularly true for compound art that requires specialized equipment and/or collaboration of specialists. As for art with high creative quotient, humans will not only be essential, but the automation of skills available to them will likely make them better. Maybe much better. And certainly more prolific.
An Updated List Of LA Cultural Buildings Impacted By The Fires
On Wednesday, the Palisades fire claimed Will Rogers’s historic ranch house and other structures on the Will Rogers State Historic Park, according to a news...
A Climber Drove Climbing Bolts Into Ancient Petroglyphs
Such petroglyphs were designated by the state’s legislature as official state works of art in 2023, the Utah Bureau of Land Management noted, as it called...
Scotland’s National Galleries Warn That Major Cultural Assets Are In Peril Because Of Funding...
The organisation, which is responsible for more than 130,000 works of art and attracted more than 2.4m visitors to its sites during 2023, has...
Audiences Are Singing Along, Acting Out At “Wicked” Movie Showings
During the theatrical run of “ Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ” last fall, fans danced and belted lyrics in the theaters, sharing their glee on social media. Last...
Globalization Gets A Bad Rap Now. But Globalization Has Been With Us For Centuries
Globalisation didn’t begin in the 1990s, or even in the past millennia. Remembering this older shared history is a path to a different tale,...
Getting Our Heads Around Understanding Bullshit
To account fully for the phenomenon of bullshit, we require a conception that envisions the bullshitted to expect that someone completely unlike him or...
Tough Times For Theatre? Right. So It’s Not A Time To Be Timid
How can theatres and individual artists position themselves as liaisons to the public to raise awareness about climate change, gun violence, mental health, and literacy?...
With Art Sales Down, Auction Houses Pivot Towards Luxury Sales
Sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s were down for the second year in a row in 2024. With both supply and demand for big-ticket art...
Daniel Harding, Conductor (Oh And Air France Pilot Too)
Over the past few years, the British-born Harding has led dual, and often dueling, careers: conducting Mozart and Mahler symphonies one day, piloting commercial...
British Fiction Generated Record Sales In 2024
BookTok, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and the indomitable Richard Osman led Fiction, with the category accounting for the year’s top five titles, 16 of...
