Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Are Arts Instagram Accounts Being Targeted By Hackers?
Why are people in the art world being hacked? Criminals are not just looking for accounts with thousands of followers and the signature blue...
NY Mayor Appoints Nightclub Owner To Met Museum Board
The unconventional appointment — previous mayoral designees were political and philanthropic heavyweights — gives the club owner an entrée into one of New York’s...
The Books That Are Poisonous If You Touch Them
These toxic books, produced in the 19th century, are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green that’s laced...
Senior Citizen Mistakenly Takes Picasso Jacket From Museum And Has It Tailored
When a certain 72-year-old woman explored the exhibition in March, she reportedly didn’t realize the jacket was anything other than someone’s actual jacket—and she...
Irving Rosenthal, Beat Scene Publisher, 91
He was fond of the Beat writers who had emerged on the West Coast and elsewhere and began publishing them. The spring 1958 issue...
Netflix’s Swoon Fuels Hollywood Anxiety
One pervasive concern: that the streaming-fueled content bubble has finally burst, with more consolidation on the way. - Variety
Ballet Performances Resume In Lviv
An abnormal announcement. "Dear guest, our event will be suspended in case of air raid alert. Dancers and spectators must go to the bomb...
A Tale Of Two Opera Companies: Houston V. Dallas
Houston Grand Opera’s history of 70 world premieres — “readier to take chances” — certainly puts the Dallas Opera’s handful of new works to...
Meet The “Architectural Terrorist”
Having been stamped with the label of postmodernism – out of favour since the 1990s, when his work was described as “architectural terrorism” –...
I Was In A Broadway Show. I Found Out I Was Fired On Social...
My agent didn’t know anything about it either, until he checked his email and saw he’d received a message less than half an hour...
What The Met’s Out-Of-Touch Gala Says About Where We Are
Even the Met’s own head of costume has said; “I think the power of fashion is that it can reflect the zeitgeist.” So what...
Questions About The Quality Of The Rebuilding Of The Glasgow School Of Art
The rebuilt of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building "favours the cheapest over the most suitable bid" according to a Glasgow architect. - Glasgow Live
Canadians Debate What Canadian “Content” Is
The definition of Canadian content is at the heart of a bill before Parliament that would make streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime...
Conservators Appalled That Kim Kardashian Wore Marilyn Monroe’s Famous Dress
Textile conservators and fashion curators are appalled that beauty mogul Kim Kardashian donned Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Jean Louis gown for the 2022 Met Gala....
Another Grand Sweeping Narrative Of History (and It’s Optimistic)
Whether or not you have a “future-oriented mindset” – in other words, how much money you save and how likely you are to invest...
The Workers Who Checked COVID Status For Broadway Theatres
“Our team is largely made up of lots of actors, stage managers, company managers, all of whom work in the theater. Nobody has cared...
Facebook Drops Podcasts
Meta Platforms is confirming it will stop offering podcast integration and close down its overall audio hub in the coming weeks. “We’re constantly evaluating...
How Cyber Data Tools Can Empower Arts Organizations
“Arts organizations have access to a wealth of data and they don’t know how to use it, beginning with the days of Ticketmaster, when...
The Dispute Behind A Problematic NY City Ballet Retirement
The dispute provides a window into the complex, often fraught dynamics of City Ballet, a close-knit company in which relatives, spouses and romantic partners...
The News Envelope That Defines Your Information Bubble
Within that media ecosystem, narratives around liberal bias, anti-expertise narratives, and the idea that if something was coming out of an institution, you couldn’t...
A Big New Foundation Funder For The Arts
A preliminary estimate of the worth of the collection is $180 million, according to Christie’s, and the designated beneficiaries include leading California-based organizations with...
What The Embattled Guston Show Says About Our Critical Discourse
Statements about art from inside the silos are considered absolutely true, but not in a general, humanistic way. Thus balkanized, the art world increasingly...
The Physical (And Spiritual) Power Of The Vibrations From A Single Musical Note
Though horribly abused and exploited by various New Age fads over the years, the old intuition still holds: vibrations reveal a lot about life,...
If America Didn’t Already Have Public Libraries, We’d Never Invent Them Today
I can imagine the internet hot take: Why punish people who can afford to buy books by making them free to read for everyone?...
The Essential Problem When Writing About Music
As far as I can tell, most writing about music is built on analogies and cliches. This is understandable; you can’t describe music literally...