Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Writing A Memoir? Maybe Reconsider?
Before you start yours, consider this: What you think is riveting about your life might not seem so to others. As one publisher put it,...
Our Culture Needs More Contrarians
Music writers of 2024 have achieved a remarkable synchrony with consumers, such that, for the first time in living memory, the most popular musicians...
US Audience Demand For Foreign Language Shows Cools
In Q1 2024 the share of audience demand in the US for foreign language shows was 13.6%, which is smaller than the share of...
Monet Destroyed As Many As 500 Of His Paintings
Dissatisfied with his paintings, he took knives and his own boots to them rather than send them to hotly anticipated Paris exhibitions, including one...
A First: All Of This Year’s Stratford Festival Directors Are Women
That women directors are leading all three Shakespeare productions at the festival this season signifies an important shift for the company, which for decades...
Opera, Careers, And Jealousy
I am a jealous opera singer. When I’m in the audience of any opera production, at least once I’ll think to myself, “It could...
Report: When Listeners Move To Podcasts, It Becomes Their Primary Source
Edison Research’s Share of Ear data shows podcast listeners spent a third (32%) of their audio listening time with podcasts. That beats out AM/FM...
Hollywood’s Number Of “Blue Collar” Workers Declines
Combined, the “white collar” class of creatives, managers and specialists accounted for eight out of ten jobs in Hollywood in 2022, up from seven...
Report: AI Threats To The Art World
Both art institutions and artists face existential challenges in negotiating this AI universe and its emerging financial model. Art-world experts consulted by The Art...
Jonathan Haidt’s Alarming “Anxious Generation”
No media consumer is an easier mark than the guilt-ridden parent, whose perseverations about not paying enough attention can be amplified a millionfold by...
Modern Architecture Through A Horror Lens
By interpreting buildings in horror mode, the authors unveil the systemic greed, unsustainable growth, and unchecked power embedded in their foundations. - LA Review...
Theatre’s Video Revolution
There are several factors behind the proliferation of live video in theatre. Partly, it is just because directors have been excited to explore the...
How Actors Memorize Their Lines
Repeating items over and over, called maintenance rehearsal, is not the most effective strategy for remembering. Instead, actors engage in elaborative rehearsal, focusing their...
A Surging Revival Of Calligraphy
Calligraphy, a centuries-old art form, is seeing a surge of interest, including among young people more familiar with coding than cursive. - The New York...
Bloomsbury Buys Big Academic Publisher
The purchase, which has already been completed, adds more than 40,000 academic titles published under the Rowman & Littlefield and Lexington Books imprints, which...
Songs For Working
"When was the last time you passed a worksite and heard their radio playing music that had something to do with their work, or...
OpenAI Makes Licensing Deals With Atlantic, Vox
“The publishers willing to roll over this way aren’t just failing to defend their own intellectual property — they are also trading their own...
Artists Add Value, Then Value Goes Up, Then Artists Can’t Afford The Neighborhood. So...
In Chicago, San Francisco and Boston, these groups are adopting unique organizational and financial structures to survive in overheated real estate markets. These arts...
A Once-In-A-Generation Talent At NY City Ballet
Now, at just 23, she is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, approaching the close of a momentous season at Lincoln Center, where...
British Museum Recovers 626 Of Its 1500 Missing Antiquities (Some Listed On EBay)
Most of the missing items are ancient gems and pieces of jewelry from Greece and Rome. Some were listed on eBay by the seller...
The UK’s Arts World Is Scrapping Over Funding. It’s A Distraction
The reality is that they are all scrapping over crumbs when the real betrayal is the state’s paltry investment in the arts. This includes the music education that...
AI Is Provoking Reconsideration Of Philosophy
Language has been a central object of philosophical attention ever since the ‘linguistic turn’ in the beginning of the 20th century. What can the emergence...
What Obligation Does A City Have To Physically Commemorate Its History?
While monuments to important figures and concepts are useful teaching tools, nothing is quite as impactful as physically confronting a space where historical tragedies...
A NY Banksy Museum Without Banksys?
“Banksy changed the rules. If you want to organize something about Banksy, you have to change the rules also,” he said on a recent...
Richard Sherman, 95, Co-Creator Of Iconic Disney Songs
“They were made by God for Walt Disney,” said Dick Van Dyke, who starred in “Mary Poppins” opposite Julie Andrews. “They somehow managed to...
