Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Rethink: Why Shouldn’t Shelter For Homeless People Be Beautiful?
“Design was often not seen as an important aspect of homeless housing. They were faceless vanilla blocks that looked cheap and made people, by...
Is The Working Class Shut Out Of Today’s Art?
It’s not possible to live authentically as a member of the working class without self-annihilating or folding oneself into the straitjacket of the middle...
Diversifying Your Emotional States
The more finely you can identify different body states—distinguishing, say, among aggravation, irritation, frustration, hostility, anxiety, and disgruntlement—the more you will understand yourself, and...
These Days You Can Bet On Almost Anything. But Why?
The most straightforward reason for the surge in gambling is a change to the law: In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the Professional...
How Music For The Movies Is Evolving
Film music may be a genre, but all that means is music used in a film. Other than that, anything the director will let...
With Big Ceremony, Egypt Reopens Ancient Avenue Of The Sphinxes
The road, also known as Road of the Rams, dates back 3,400 years, Reuters reports. However, it was first discovered in the late 1940s,...
Magnus Carlsen Has Been World Chess Champion Since His Teens. The World Of Chess...
Computer-assisted preparation makes it ‘harder and harder’ to demonstrate the superiority of his intuition and strategic thinking in classical games. Players with good memories,...
Shortened Comic-Con Returns, But Many Dealers Won’t Attend
No matter the time of year, the energy of Comic-Con thrives in Southern California’s comic book stores — spaces deeply entwined within its culture....
Labor Unrest Grows: Near-IATSE Strike Is Sign Of Things To Come
Union members have grown impatient with worsening working conditions and IATSE’s long tradition of avoiding nationwide walkouts. IATSE members in October overwhelmingly supported a strike...
End Of Times – Identifying The Anthropocene
In the face of such debilitating immensity, we cannot merely shrug and take a selfie. We cannot allow the scale of the crises we...
The Spanglification Of Languages
It is becoming clear that the mixed nature of Spanglish represents a general phenomenon. Among people born in and growing up in neighborhoods like...
Our Ancient Attraction To Glass
In a world filled with the buff, brown and sand hues of more utilitarian Late Bronze Age materials, glass — saturated with blue, purple,...
Nope: Tolkien Estate Blocks Crypto Coin “JRR Token”
The developer said in response that JRR Token was intended to reference “a unique form of digital currency”, rather than the late fantasy author,...
Kafkaesque US Visa System Wreaking Havoc With The Arts
The amount of paperwork required by the USCIS (United States Citizen and Immigration Service), says Nicki Harper, Los Angeles Opera’s director of artistic operations, plus all...
ABT Taps Beyonce Entertainment Exec As Its Next Executive Director
Janet Rollé, general manager of Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé’s media and management company, will in January assume the role of chief executive and executive director...
The Real Threat To Academic Freedom Isn’t Cancel Culture, It’s This…
With the privatization and commercialization of higher education, universities are run like businesses, in which a degree becomes a product, students become customers, and...
School Protests From A Century Ago Set The Tone For Today’s Controversies
Telling parents you don’t want their kids to have the best possible public schools is never good politics. A full century ago, the most...
African Diaspora Music Project Collects 1,200 Symphonies By Black Composers
Louise Toppin is on a mission to recalibrate who, what, and how we program our concert seasons to enable a more equitable representation of music...
True Crime: Manhattan’s Art Theft Police
The unit has impounded more than 3,600 antiquities, valued at some $200 million. They’ve raided art fairs on Park Avenue, and Christie’s in Rockefeller Center. They arrested...
Study: Disparities In The Ways Theatres Are Funded
“Almost no theatre of color has a budget over $3 million. Until we reach $5 million, we don’t get access to commission funding or...
Why Did An Australian TV Network Pay $1 Million For An Interview With Adele?
The answer is we got there via a thousand cuts, incremental concessions that have contributed to, and reinforced, the idea that mainstream media is...
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
