Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Remembering Mary Quant, Designer Who Made The 60s Swing
Synonymous with defining styles of the era, including the miniskirt and hot pants, her colorful and unashamedly sexy clothes for a drastically changing world...
FBI’s New Stolen Art App Needs Work
The app features 4,522 stolen objects which are searchable by subject matter, medium, or artist. Many of the works are not photographed, and a...
An Infestation Of Information-Based Art
Although the elements vary, the genre is characterized by a reliance on text and discourse to support an abundance of materials, distributed spatially. - ArtForum
Stage Intimacy Training Is Growing
This fall, Columbia College Chicago will begin a yearlong, graduate-level program in stage and screen intimacy, leading to a certificate — the first of...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Declares An Emergency, Says It Needs $2.5 Million To Save Season
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced a campaign Tuesday to raise $2.5 million to “save” the season set to begin later this month and said it was...
New Instrument Creates Music From Elements In The Periodic Tables
Using a technique known as data sonification, which translates information of practically any kind into soundwaves, W. Walker Smith crafted a new musical instrument...
Why Has The Hometown Paper Been Boycotting This Year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival?
Editor Gemma Jones said the Fringe launched a “rival” review website with “an almost identical format and functionality as our ‘Tiser Fringe Adviser”, a decision she...
Elon Musk, Lauren Boebert Demand “Defund NPR” After NPR Quits Twitter
“Defund @NPR,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday, after sharing an email that said the media outlet was no longer using Twitter. - The Hill
Why You Shouldn’t Sing Along At The Theatre…
There is a difference between a theatre show and a concert. "It's a musical and you're there to hear the lyrics, hear the words,...
Generative AI’s Intellectual Property Problem
This process comes with legal risks, including intellectual property infringement. In many cases, it also poses legal questions that are still being resolved. For...
NPR Quits Twitter
“At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,” said NPR CEO John Lansing in an article posted on NPR’s website....
The Ultimate LA Books
How can we know if nobody reads and, just maybe, resurrects them? Obscurity doesn’t necessarily mean inferiority. - Los Angeles Times
Is This The Most Important Opera Of Our Time?
“I’m absolutely sure that this is one of the most important works of our time,” says Susanna Mälkki, who conducted that premiere with the London...
New Zealand Arts Education Collapsing
A new national report reveals that achievement levels for primary-aged learners in dance, drama, music and visual arts have plunged compared to 2015 scores. - The Big Idea
Citing Its Own WWII Experience, Poland Helps Lead Efforts To Save Ukraine Culture
“It’s equally important to preserve their cultural heritage, because this is their identity,” Kubicki said, “This is how they remain Ukrainians—who they are.” -...
Missouri House Of Representatives Votes To Eliminate Funding For Public Libraries
Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to...
Why Complex Systems Are Weaker Than Simple Networks
Recall the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. A straw is a very small thing, it weighs almost nothing, but it can bring...
Fans’ Loud Singalong Halts Theatre Performance
A rowdy singalong by audience members has halted a performance of The Bodyguard. Singer Melody Thornton was unable to complete her rendition of I...
Broadway Box Office Bumps Up
Attendance for the week ending April 9 was 280,760, up 4%. The more modest jump in attendance left ticket prices to do some heavy...
Did These Four Women Change Classical Music?
Leah Broad paints vivid, at times over-imagined, pictures of all four women and the worlds in which they lived and worked. She deftly interweaves...
Santa Fe Center For Contemporary Arts Shuts Down
A press release announcing the closure and local media coverage cited pandemic mandates and protocols, changing models of film distribution and consumption, and long-standing...
Diversity Of The Ancient Classics
To suggest the Classical inheritance is monocultural, or “pale, male and stale”, is to do a disservice to the patchwork of cultures, backgrounds, outlooks...
Were The 20th Century Modernists Really So Radical?
In fairness, Schoenberg never pretended that he was out to smash the system — maintaining, to the end of his life, that art was...
The Value Of “Splendid Uselessness”
The real project of humanity – of understanding ourselves as human beings, making a good world to live in, and striving together toward mutual...
The Next Step In Broadening The Classical Music Canon
Something critical is getting overlooked amid the fervor with which classical music claims its new sense of conscience: the artistic value of the works...
