Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Good Morning.
Here are today’s AJ highlights.
Fats Waller’s only full book musical, Early to Bed, is being pieced back together from scattered sketches and revived...
New York University, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, Performing Arts Administration-Non-Tenure Track...
New York University, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, Performing Arts Administration-Non-Tenure Track Position
Does “Sound Of Music” Still Hold Up After 60 Years?
“The filmmaking is, I think, up there with anything Hollywood's produced. And musically … there's not many musicals out there, if any, which have...
The Surveillance Workplace Is Coming For Us
For many workers, both remote and in person, the workplace has quietly shifted into a site of constant measurement—where every pause can trigger scrutiny...
What I Learned From The Difficult Book Club
None of us are academic philosophers, by any means; we have busy jobs and other pressing adult responsibilities. But the process has proved fruitful....
Warner Music Group Makes AI Rights Deal With Udio
The deals underline how AI is shaking up the music industry. AI-generated music has been flooding streaming services amid the rise of song generators that...
Seattle International Film Festival Bought An Iconic Theatre. It Didn’t Work So Well. Now...
Earlier this year, The Times spoke to a dozen current and former SIFF staff and board members, many of whom expressed profound concerns about both...
Why Is The New York Public Library Giving Away Books?
Usually you have to return books you get from a library. Today the New York Public Library will give books away — 1,000 books...
New $234M Record Sale For Modern Art
The 71-by-51-inch painting, named after its subject, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York on Tuesday evening for $236.4 million, including fees. It belonged...
Three University Leaders Discuss Challenges Facing Education
Many universities, not all, but many, were for a period of time deeply focused on identity diversity, and really not so focused on viewpoint...
Concern As Warner Brothers Sale Looms
Warners Brothers has had multiple owners over the decades. Three years ago, Warner Media, as it was called, merged with Discovery. And in June,...
This University Restructured, Eliminating Traditional Departments (And Humanities?)
The departments of English, classics, philosophy, world languages and Spanish and Latino studies, for example, will be grouped into the tentatively titled School of...
So What Is Progress, Really? Some Limits Are Good
“Modernity is a machine for destroying limits." This attack on limits is legible in a host of current phenomena, including mass immigration, free-market orthodoxy,...
For A Long Time Artists Have Been On The Leading Edge Of Culture. Maybe...
What about all the painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance that people still love to make and see? They’re not going away, but it’s...
French Art Establishment Opposes New Tax On Art
Under the legislation, France would become the only major market art center to impose a wealth tax on the mere possession of artworks, says the statement....
Nico Muhly On The Physical Translation Of Music Into Dancers’ Bodies
Watching a dance rehearsal as a score-addicted musician is surreal. You can have 30 people in the room, and only two of them will...
Disney Hits A Wall With Its AI Ambitions
Even as other industries — from technology to publishing — proceed to incorporate AI to cut costs and replace jobs, media companies have bumped...
This Playwright Enlisted Anorexic Actors: The Ethics Of Who Portrays What
Theater makers have long depicted health struggles onstage, including the realities of living with H.I.V. and cancer, but the debate around this production, titled “Jeanne Dark” and running through...
The GLP-1 Era Is Changing How We Think About Self Control
Although scientists are just beginning to study food noise as a concept, individuals who have taken a GLP-1 drug often report that it significantly reduces this distracting, ruminative thinking about...
This Year’s Worldwide New Building Of The Year
The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Center of Las Chumberas, designed by Spanish architect Fernando Menis, has been named as the World Building of the Year at the...
Pope Leo: Movie Theatres And Cathedrals
There's "an inner peace that comes from entering the sanctum sanctorum of those movie palaces with the wall-sized screens.2 Don’t take it from me. Take...
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Drama, Department Chair
Department of Undergraduate Drama at NYU Tisch School of the Arts seeks a Chair to lead the Bachelor of Fine Arts program beginning Fall '26.
The Icelandic Language Is In Danger Of Dying Out
“Having this language that is spoken by so very few, I feel that we carry a huge responsibility to actually preserve that. I do...
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra seeks Vice President, Human Resources
The next Vice President, Human Resources will lead the FWSO’s design and implementation of HR strategy to strength communication and collaboration across the organization.
Conceptual Frame: An Art Installation You Have To Really Commit To See
The Frattini Bivouac is not staffed, ticketed or mediated. Anyone can enter it, but only after a six-to-eight-hour ascent on foot across scree, moss...
