Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Cultural Loss Of 100,000 Arnold Schoenberg Scores
The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and...
The Lost Music In The LA Fires
In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The...
The Tyranny Of Reading Lists
The urge to track our reading habits is never so strong as it is near the turn of the year, when cultural forces press...
No – Harvard Didn’t Break How America Works
The danger of blaming the Ivy League for today’s overreliance on blunt ranking-and-sorting instruments is that we may be tempted to wait for the...
How Virtual Reality Is Changing The Designing Of Buildings
VR brings clarity to architectural design. While traditional blueprints and 3D renderings can mainly convey spatial relationships, lighting conditions and material finishes, VR immerses...
The Extraordinary Efforts To Save The Getty Center From Fire
Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak...
Studying How The Brain Works Is Fine. But What About Imagination?
Imagination of a sort is central to all experience. We construct our perceived world from incomplete information, interpreted via inner representations of our environment, that...
Artwork Lost In LA Fires
Ron Rivlin said he had lost more than two dozen Warhols — he owns a gallery in West Hollywood that specializes in Warhol — along with...
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,...
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...
