Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The NY Phil Goes Traveling, In A Shipping Container
Last year it was a Ford F-250 pickup truck that saved the day, and the audiences around the city. "Bandwagon 2 will trade in...
Jhumpa Lahiri On Living In Linguistic Exile, And Translating Her Own Work
That would be the book (Dove mi trovo, or Whereabouts) she wrote first in Italian and then translated into English - her first novel...
Rotten Tomatoes Added A 1941 Review That Wrecked Citizen Kane’s Perfect Rating
Citizen Kane used to have a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Then things changed. "The writer, credited as Mae Tinee (a play on...
Writing Mainstream TV Shows About Native American Families
It's normal - but an exciting kind of normal - for Sydney Freeland. When she started film school, "I remember thinking, like, ‘OK, wait....
Holbein Left A Clever Clue In A Portrait Of Henry VIII’s Wife
Which wife? Well, for centuries, everyone thought it was Catherine Howard (the second of the beheadeds in the old rhyme). Instead, thanks to Hans...
Directing Isn’t Easy At The Best Of Times
But for an Asian American director during the pandemic, kicking off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month via an online platform, it's a...
Motherhood Can Be Radical
Just ask Adrienne Rich. "Rich’s predicament, as a mother who was also an artist, remains a predicament today. And what she did with that...
MoMA Blocks Demonstrators From Entering Museum
"'We want to take over these institutions; they do not belong to the oligarchs,' Amin Husain, one of the demonstration’s organizers, told a crowd...
The Grim, Open Secret Of College Bone Collections
In recent weeks, revelations that both Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania used the bones of teenaged victims of the city of Philadelphia's bombing...
Europe Has A Banksy Of Potholes
The Lyon-based artist Em Emem (a pseudonym, of course) uses mosaics to fill in gaps in street infrastructure, but also to make them gorgeous....
Eli Broad, Who Spent Billions To Reshape Los Angeles’ Art, Architecture, And Education, 87
Broad, whose money came from homebuilding and insurance empires, truly changed L.A. "Dogged, determined and often unyielding, he helped push and prod majestic institutions...
Olympia Dukakis, 89, Star Of Screen And Stage
Dukakis was well-known as a working actress in the theatre when she took a role as the mom in Moonstruck. Then she won an...