Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How The Ukraine War Has Re-Energized How Britain Thinks Of Itself
Truss’s central idea is that the West has grown complacent since the end of the Cold War, because of a spiritual crisis in which...
Digesting The Tonys: The Surprises And The Overlooked
The nominators spread out their admiration quite widely: Of the 34 shows eligible for nominations, 29 got at least one nod, including the critically...
The Song That’s Uniting India And Pakistan
The song is stealthily subversive: a traditional raga—the classical Indian framework for musical improvisation—has been laid over an infectious beat that sounds South Asian,...
How To Explain The Allure Of Conspiracy Theories? (The New Books)
The conspiracy theorist’s dogmatism often distracts from the objects of his skepticism, and it is the latter that I believe are more revealing. The...
Why (And How) TikTok Is Dangerous
TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data. It’s over what users watch and create. It’s over the opaque algorithm that governs what gets seen...
How Russia’s War On Ukraine Is Changing The World’s Ballet Stages
24th of February, this is, was the line, Because it's all changed. All changed. The reputation of Russia and Russian people, even if you...
Plato Karayanis, 91 – Led Dallas Opera For 23 Years
An outgoing man whose sonorous baritone betrayed his beginnings as a singer, Karayanis presided over the founding of the opera company’s orchestra and creation...
What The Emmys Could Learn From Comic-Con
Take a page from Comic-Con, D23, Apple and everyone else who has turned to fan events for big reveals and announcements. Make the Emmys the...
Russia Is Selling Art To Fund Its War (Some Of The Art Appears To...
A new Russian website known as Art For Victory, which belongs to an organisation known as Terricon Project, is supporting the Russian war in Ukraine by...
What Ukrainian Theatres Are Doing During The War
Two theatres have converted their stages for people to sleep and for storage of food and medicine. It echoes a narrative happening across Ukraine...
When Did The Middle Ages End (It’s Important To Know)
The Middle Ages are a chimera, a fantasy, all but impossible to define or date, at least at a global level. The conventional chronological...
Directors Guild Report: Diversity Increases
Even as the number of shows fell 36% to 2,691 in the 2020-2021 season from the year before, the number of TV episodes led...
Are Human Lives Inherently More Valuable?
Can we really justify the idea that some lives carry more ethical weight than others in general, and that human lives carry more ethical...
A Marble Bust, Bought For $35 At Goodwill In Texas, Is 2000 Years Old...
How did a 2,000-year-old sculpture of a Roman general’s head wind up in a Goodwill in Austin, Texas? - KUT
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...
