Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
NYC To Consider Repealing Cabaret Ban On Dancing
Legislation proposed on Aug. 26 by Adams and New York City Council Members Keith Powers and Mark Levine would “end the city’s zoning laws...
The Happy, Sad Life Of Painter Bob Ross
The sad end of the Bob Ross story is just not as compelling as its joyful beginning and middle. - The New Republic
Just How Paranoid Is LA MoCA? (A Lot!)
At the end of the day Wednesday, a museum email arrived in my inbox with the almost-but-not-quite-news — along with a certifiably crazy list...
Meet LA MoCA’s Next Director
Joanna Burton joined the Wexner in early 2019 after its longtime director, Sherri Geldin, retired. In May, she hired Kelly Kivland away from the...
YouTube Music Surprises – Now Has 50 Million Subscribers
While global market leader Spotify still has a healthy lead — its most recent total paid subscribers was around 165 million, announced earlier this...
Fortnite Suspends Dance Moves In MLK Tribute Game After Racist Emotes
The March Through Time experience launched August 26, recreating the Lincoln Memorial and US National Mall where King delivered the speech, and incorporated informational exhibits and...
A Kids’ Battle Of The Books Program That Has Them Eager To Put Away...
Every year for the past six years Hepburn Penny has organized a Battle of the Books program that sees kids between the ages of eight...
Architects Use Video Gaming Tools To Explain Projects
"We see games as a tool for engagement, for connecting people thinking about how they can become collaborative design environments." - Dezeen
The Surprisingly Big Business Of Library E-Book Lending
The burst in digital borrowing has helped many readers, but it has also accelerated an unsettling trend. Books, like music and movies and TV...
How Digital Tech Will Kill Nation States (A History)
If we want to figure out how network technologies like Internet and Blockchain will change the world, we need to understand how the nature...
Consolidation: Four Prominent Galleries Join Up Under One Roof
In joining forces, the foursome are betting they will be more effective together than separately at a time when the gallery sector has seen a...
Did That Robot Look At Me Funny?
It has long been known that making eye contact with a robot can be an unsettling experience. Scientists even have a name for the...
How Social Media Has Ruined Art?
The public sphere has been replaced with emotional outbursts and opportunities for consumption. Museums have followed suit, relinquishing their mission to enlighten and challenge the public...
How Do We Get Beyond A Rush To Judgment?
The modern online public sphere, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid ideological prisms, and arguments of 280 characters, favors neither nuance nor ambiguity. -...
Collector Buys Fake Banksy NFT
The piece did enough to convince a buyer – confusingly named Pranksy – to pay the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of pounds only...
About That Basquiat Painting in Tiffany Blue…
Basquiat died in 1988 at 27, but in the last few days all sorts of people with various relationships to both him and his work...
Romance Writers Of America Rescinds Award Over Genocide Charges
Romance Writers of America, which earlier this month rescinded an award given to the 2020 novel “At Love’s Command” over complaints that it “romanticized...
Why Wikipedia Has A Compelling Need To Transcend Languages
Wikipedia leaders presented a new initiative that could theoretically unify the information presented by all of the other Wikipedias, a proposed language-independent encyclopedia that...
Francesca Harper Named New Artistic Director Of Alvin Ailey II
Her mother, Denise Jefferson, directed the Ailey School from 1984 until her death in 2010. Harper didn’t just attend dance classes at the school; she...
Youth Radio Station Pokes Fun At Older Music Fans In A Tweet (It Didn’t...
“Did it hurt? When you aged out of the youth radio station,” the national youth broadcaster tweeted. - The Guardian
Nation-building Abroad? We’re Not Very Good At It At Home Either
"I know something about this rhetorical vagary because it involves nominally the same efforts America supposedly applies to strengthen its own communities that are...
Facebook Admits: Engagement Might Not Be The Gold Standard
Optimizing for engagement is at the heart of many of the criticisms of social platforms. An algorithm that’s too focused on engagement might push...
Paramount Is Suing Insurance Company Over COVID Shutdowns On New “Mission Impossible”
The film was shut down seven times as a result of the pandemic and now Paramount Studios, the movie’s distributor and producer, is suing...
Italy’s Surreal New Fellini Museum Reconfigures A Historic Downtown
The museum occupies two historic buildings, with a large piazza in between, effectively reconfiguring a significant part of Rimini’s downtown. - The New York...
You’re Right — Things Are Worse Now Than They Were 60 Years Ago
Sixty years after Kennedy’s speech to Congress, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone willing to make the case that accomplishing hard tasks, solving...