Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Inquest: John Le Carré Died After Fall In Bathroom
The author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, fractured his ribs in the fall. - BBC
Richard Baron, Daring Publisher Of Dial Press, Dead At 98
Among the unconventional books that he took on when other publishers wouldn't were The Armies of the Night, the first of Norman Mailer's "nonfiction...
New Yorker Unionization Effort Divides Writers
The unionization effort has created an uncomfortable moment for the writers at The New Yorker, who have the kind of jobs and influence every...
Accusations Of Drug, Psychological, And Sexual Abuse Rock Maurice Béjart’s Dance Company
"Switzerland's prestigious Béjart Ballet Lausanne company faces a probe as allegations of drug use, harassment and abuse of power raise the question why nothing...
Boris Johnson Delays Full Reopening Of Performing Arts For Another Four Weeks
"England was due to move to stage four of the government's roadmap out of lockdown on 21 June, when venues and events would be...
Revenue From NPR’s Podcasts Just Keeps Rising And Rising
"From 2015 to 2019 US-based National Public Radio saw its podcasting revenue grow ten-fold. Things were tougher last year due to the pandemic, though...
How Did US Public Broadcasting Become The Institution It Is? It Sure Wasn’t Easy
"As self-evident and uncontroversial as the belief in equal access to information sounds within the noncommercial media sector itself, politically the concept always faced...
Have A Look At The New ‘Pop-Up’ Grand Palais In Paris
"The Grand Palais Éphémère, the €40 million temporary building that will host the Fiac and Paris Photo art fairs in Paris while the Grand...
Banned Or Not, The Cruise Ships Are Back, And Venetians Are Fighting About It
"The return of cruise ships, which caught many by surprise after the Italian government announced in March that they would be banned from the...
Who Stole $30 Million Worth Of Art From Italy’s State Broadcaster?
"The Italian press has dubbed it the 'sack of RAI.' Investigators believe disgruntled former staff members stole a trove of artworks worth an estimated...
The Purpose Of Scientific Papers?
It’s enough for them to draw attention to an idea that is worth pursuing further—and an idea need not be true, well-justified given all...
Why I Turned Down A Queen’s Honor For Literature
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire? Is this the title I’m asked to carry? I cannot think of anything I...
The Modest New York Apartment That’s Home To An Amazing Art Collection
It belongs to Alvin Hall, 68, a broadcaster, financial educator and author, who, through good timing, taste and a bit of luck, began collecting...
A Major New Museum Rises In Orange County
The $93 million building by Morphosis Architects, the 80-personstudio founded by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, was designed to be many things: the new...
Art Historian May Have Found Two Unknown Gentileschi Paintings In Beirut
About his research at the palace, Gregory Buchakjian told Hyperallergic, “It’s a big house. There are no labels. It’s not a museum … Some...
Naomi Wolf Was Once Highly Influential. How Did She Get So Crazy?
With each subsequent decade, Wolf has injected a little more madness into the cesspool of weird that we sometimes call “the discourse.” - The...
“In The Heights” Was Hyped As Summer’s First Hit. Opening Box Office Says Nope
The Warner Bros. musical generated a wane $11.4 million from 3,456 U.S. theaters in its first four days of release, below earlier expectations suggesting...
1974: The Year Los Angeles Became A Cultural Powerhouse
Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at the Atlantic and political analyst for CNN, offers 1974 as a pivotal year in which Los Angeles took...
Grappling With The Ethics Of Regulating Artificial Intelligence
"Scientists have to deal with this uneasy balance between being free to do what they like and needing to face the consequences of their...
Sorry — The Brain Is Not A Muscle That Grows Stronger With Use
In recent years, I.Q. scores have stopped rising or have even begun to drop in countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and Britain....
In North Carolina, A New Statue Will Honor Formerly Hidden History
A few days ago, David Zucchino's book on the 1898 Wilmington Massacre won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, a new statue is about to go...
Theatre In A Slowly Reopening Canada Worries It’s Being Left Behind
One Vancouver AD says that his colleagues are extremely burned out - and also worried about what's coming. On the other hand, post-pandemic: "I...
Sony Writes Off Artists’ Debts
This means that groups and single artists who were still trying to pay back debt - and thus were not eligible for royalties -...
Envisioning A Kinder, More Beautiful Apocalypse
Filmmaker Jim Mickle: "I started asking questions like, 'What if you could make an apocalyptic story where you actually want to go to that...
Cultivating Creative Community In The Midst Of The Pandemic
It's not easy to find creative community at the best of times. Sometimes you just need an outside force - say, an "art incubator."...