Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
400,000 Books Burned In Bookstore Fire
A book signed by Queen Victoria and a first edition of the Radio Times from 1923 were lost when the fire broke out at...
Cool – A Brain Scan! But What Does It Mean?
Beyond grasping the stakes of these statistical debates, then, public engagement with neuroscience would be less prone to overreaches of ‘neurorealism’ if equipped with...
The Musicians, Dancers Killed In The Wisconsin Holiday Parade
Three of those killed were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a group of women whose pompom routines have been a staple of local...
NYT’s 100 Notable Books For 2021
They made a list. Checked it twice... - The New York Times
Why Artists Should Have Resale Rights
Auction houses or other market intermediaries wishing to incorporate such activities into their equity practice could pledge a portion of the seller’s commission or...
How An Ancient Roman Mosaic Spent Fifty Years As A Coffee Table In A...
A priceless Roman mosaic that once decorated a ship used by the emperor Caligula was used for almost 50 years as a coffee table...
Grandmaster Sues Netflix Over “Queen’s Gambit” Portrayal
The complaint accuses Netflix of disparaging Nona Gaprindashvili's achievements to make for a more dramatic story and dismissing her earlier allegation of defamation without...
Remembering Dave Hickey, The Renegade Critic
Like so many Texan artists before and after him, he had a tortured relationship with his home state and its mythology. He kept trying...
Brit Awards Scrap Male/Female Categories
Artists like Sam Smith and Will Young had previously called for the change, saying the current system excludes non-binary artists. - BBC
NYC To Give Brooklyn Museum $50 Million
“I’ve been dreaming of this since I joined the museum a little over five years ago,” Pasternak said. “Our exhibitions and public programs have...
New Facility Signals San Francisco Conservatory Community Attitude
Bowes Center signals a major expansion of the Conservatory of Music, which has most of its academic and performance spaces a few blocks away...
Eddie Redmayne: Playing “Danish Girl” Trans Character Was A Mistake
“No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake,” Redmayne told...
Writer Robert Bly, 94
He "galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men’s movement with a best seller that called for a restoration of primal...
Opera As Mountains To Be Summited
Matthew Aucoin finds impossibility to be a constant in the history of opera. “The art form’s first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Italy strove to re-create...
We’ve Made Progress. But The Thing About Progress Is It Has To Progress…
Those without the vision to produce art as means toward an end, rather than the end itself, have placated the wealthy donors who are...
What If We Stripped Humanities Education Back To First Principles?
The Catherine Project’s commitment, borne out beautifully by our seminars thus far, is that great books are supremely egalitarian: They move and challenge us...
Theatre Norms: Always Changing
The 19th century brought about the popularization of the proscenium arch: an architectural feature that effectively separates the audience from the actors on stage. Alongside...
Two Books Explore What It’s Really Like To Be A Ballerina
There are dancers, and there are ballerinas. Just like there are cooks, and then there are chefs. - Alastair Macaulay
The Cultures Of Science And Art Aren’t So Different After All
Did cultural movements in art fertilize scientific breakthroughs? It’s an intriguing correlation, perhaps not much more. But it underscores the point that one culture,...
What Are You Buying When You Buy An NFT?
Critics of NFTs assert that it’s ridiculous to try to claim ownership of something that can be infinitely reproduced on the internet, and pranksters...
Spain Says UK Musicians Will No Longer Need Visas To Perform There
Spain’s announcement means UK musicians and their crew will no longer need visas for engagements of less than 90 days, a change in policy...
Book Business Is Booming. Except It’s Difficult To Get Books To Sell
In 2020, both the United States and the United Kingdom saw their largest annual increases in over a decade — a worldwide paper shortage and a global shipping...
The Software That Changed How Music Is Produced
“It created a completely new type of producer. It gave access to a versatile tool that would do what people want without spending thousands...
A Worldwide Vinyl Shortage
Around the world, vinyl pressing facilities are stretched to the limit with 24-hour, nearly seven-days-a-week production still not meeting demand. - CBC
They’re Restoring The 1920s-Era Hollywood Sign
Crews uncovered in the foundation the names and handprints of some of the workers on the 1978 rebuild’s crew. The remnants of a “lean-to...
