Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Who Owns The Stage Now?
Good Afternoon,
Byron Allen built a media empire on one insight: the money is in owning the content, not performing it (Los Angeles Times). Several...
Rex Reed Hated Everything
In my ongoing conversations with him, along with the despairingly pungent emails he regularly sent from his AOL address Rex seemed to interpret the...
Cincinnati Opera Launches Major New Opera Initiative
“Lalovavi” launches Cincinnati Opera’s Black Opera Project, a $6 million three-opera endeavor. The first of its kind, the project aims to tell Black American stories of...
Misty Copeland On Drive and Motivation
What people do not always see is the aspect of drive that is perhaps the hardest to name — the will to keep going...
Highmark Mann Center Opens On A Roll
The Highmark Mann opened five decades ago as the Robin Hood Dell West, the local summer retreat for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and it has...
Why Older People Are Happier, And What We Can Learn From Them
Research spanning 145 countries has identified a U-shaped happiness-age curve, whereby self-reported wellbeing tends to dip in mid-adulthood and peak in old age. - Psyche
Generational Change In Australia’s First Nations Dance
Australian dance is undergoing a generational transfer of leadership. At the same time, First Nations choreography has never been more visible. Yet visibility and...
Publishers Sue Website For Pirating
Fresh off of last month’s victory against pirate web site Anna’s Archive, 13 publishers across all segments of the industry have allied to sue yet another...
Why Movie Production Is Leaving Hollywood
Everything costs more in L.A., starting with labor, due to the high cost of living and elaborate union agreements. Other states and countries have...
Dance Jumps Into Lincoln Center In A Big Way
In the years since American Dance Theater, the descendants of modern dance have performed at Lincoln Center with varying frequency. But the new festival...
Why Fox Bought Roku
Ever since the old Fox sold off most of its entertainment assets to Disney, Lachlan Murdoch — son of Rupert and CEO of Fox...
Executive Director – Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley
Cantabile Youth Singers seeks a entrepreneurial Executive Director to partner with artistic leadership, build organizational capacity, and expand support for its acclaimed youth music programs.Seeking
AJ Chronicles: There’s no Shortage of Art. We Ran Out of Ways to Find...
The major disconnect of contemporary culture: Findability has detached from the ability of traditional cultural narratives to agree on what's important. Instead of art evolving in coherent strands that are traceable and linear, there are now multiple cultural universes, each with their own languages and conventions. Each has its own creative masters, famous within that universe. But from the outside, these adjacent universes are all but invisible and their languages opaque.
The Art Commissioned By The Obama Presidential Library
For the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago, Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned original works by 30 artists from diverse backgrounds, a bold move never...
A Professor Despairs Of What AI Reveals About Students
There will always be idealistic, ink-stained people who want to devote their lives to scholarly pursuits—their role to inspire young people to love ideas...
“Teaser” Events Have Become A Powerful Way For Pop Stars To Introduce Their Projects
From a marketing perspective, this approach blends internet culture and storytelling to create a memorable experience for fans. These teaser releases are particularly effective at...
Are Most Children’s Books “Crud”?
“There are so many bad kids’ books,” Mac Barnett writes, “and kids’ books are bad in so many different ways.” He states that “a...
Mathematics And The Tools Of Reasoning That Ai Is Tackling
Understanding is a lively topic for philosophers, but not for the tech industry. In their race to the ultimate prize of AGI, Silicon Valley’s...
The Problem With AI Writing (And The Opportunity For Human Literature)
If, as a French saying has it, “style is the man himself,” what does the style of AI writing tell us about it? For...
Film Critic Gene Shalit Dies At 100
Shalit started on Today in 1970, according to NBC's report on his passing, and became its arts editor in 1973, interviewing celebrities and reviewing books as well...
What We Learned About How To Celebrate A Divided America’s Birthday From The Bicentennial
Philadelphia, as the cradle of American independence, was supposed to be the center of attention 50 years ago. From the beginning, deliberations involved arguably...
Jurgen Habermas And The Public Sphere
Habermas’s death might mark the end of a mode of main-stage philosophizing that, in the German-speaking world, reaches back, by way of Adorno, Heidegger,...
The Aesthetic That Fits Our Times: Tragicomic
This cockroach of forms—adaptive, resilient, unkillable—was named by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the second century BC, enjoyed its heyday in 17th-century Renaissance theater,...
San Francisco Symphony seeks Deputy Director of Development
Reporting to the Chief Philanthropy Officer, the Deputy Director of Development (DDD) is a key strategic leader and the second most senior position on the
The Old Are Taking Over America
Samuel Moyn argues that the oldest Americans, because of their retrograde politics and ever-increasing presence, are profoundly reshaping our collective life. - The New Yorker
