Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
German University Study Center Named Best New Building In Europe
The architects describe the building as acting like a microchip on a circuit board, a central meeting point connected to all parts of the...
No One Is Going To Buy Your Book
The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies...
Exit Interview: Chicago Lyric Opera’s Anthony Freud
I think the simplistic stereotype of my European colleagues assuming that American general directors are kicked around mercilessly by unconscionable wealthy donors is as...
FCC Fines Non-Profit WBAI For Broadcasting Commercials
FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer says they negotiated a consent decree with Pacifica in which the broadcaster acknowledges that it has violated the...
Is TikTok Going Away Soon? Short Answer: No!
Should the court-y things not go in ByteDance’s favor, then? They could always push the next Congress, and the next president, to repeal the...
A Moral Obligation To Disrupt On Behalf Of The Planet?
As a citizen waking up to this terrible truth, as the situation becomes more and more desperate, does the obligation to take desperate measures...
The Recycle Wars: When Literature Begets Literature
The rewriting of old books is hardly a new practice, though it’s one that critics often like to complain about. Doesn’t anyone have an original...
Behind San Francisco Conservatory’s Big Bets On The Future
"At Curtis, it’s just the music, but we tell you you’ll know something about how the music business works and we think...
How Losing Non-Compete Clauses Will Affect Hollywood
“The new FTC rule shines a klieg light on how best to retain quality employees in the industry — noncompetes are on their way out, so...
Arts Council England Is Broken. Theatre Leaders Have Some Ideas To Fix It
Leaders from across the theatre sector have outlined their vision for a reformed Arts Council England, warning that an unchanged funding body could stoke...
Study: New Zealanders’ Participation In The Arts
Among the encouraging stats, participation in the arts has reached its highest level since the survey began in 2005, up to 54%. Young people, deaf and...
Study: Our Perception Of Time Is Influenced By What We Experience
When viewing larger or less-cluttered scenes, participants were more likely to experience time dilation; thinking that they had viewed the picture for longer than...
No-Name Philadelphia Pops Orchestra Now Wants The Name
The self-organized group of musicians playing under the No Name Pops banner is negotiating with the family of late pianist and conductor Peter Nero...
How America Got Hooked On Credit Card Culture
By the late 1960s, bankers increasingly saw credit cards, which combined innovative information technology with access to affluent consumer markets, as the road to...
Opera Philadelphia Picks A New General Director
Anthony Roth Costanzo, 41, has a history with Philadelphia going back almost 30 years. His first appearance at the Academy of Music was in 1996...
How AI Will Be (Is) Wrecking The Internet
LLMs have begun to disrupt the traditional relationship between writer and reader. Type how to fix broken headlight into a search engine, and it returns a...
John McWhorter Writes That Sounds Of Protest Preclude John Cage Performance. But…
For people familiar with Cage’s work, McWhorter’s argument appeared antithetical to the spirit of “4’33.” Cage’s conception of silence, though heavily and often debated,...
Literary Critic Helen Vendler, 90
In an era dominated by poststructuralist and politically influenced literary criticism, Ms. Vendler, who taught at Harvard for more than 30 years, adhered to...
Cincinnati Symphony Picks A New Music Director
Romanian conductor Christian Macelaru, who holds prestigious posts in Europe, leading both the Orchestre National de France and the WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, Germany,...
Rise Of The Dumbphone
The growing dumbphone fervor may be motivated, in part, by the discourse around child safety online. Parents are increasingly confronted with evidence that sites like Instagram...
Lost Klimt Painting Sells For $32M
It was commissioned by a family of Jewish industrialists in 1917, a year before Klimt's death. However, there are many unanswered questions about the...
Four Finalists For This Year’s Turner Prize
The Turner Prize carries a £25,000 purse; shortlisted artists will be awarded £10,000. The Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain opens on September 25...
NPR CEO Responds To Bias Charges
“All of this frankly is a bit of a distraction relative to the transformation our organization needs to undergo in order to best serve...
Why Disney Is Spending $60 Billion On Theme Park Expansion
Why the massive investment? At a time when Disney faces revenue challenges due to cord cutting, streaming wars and a slower film box office,...
Prospects For Journalist: Low Pay, Few Jobs
Our findings show that the vast majority of “primary occupation” freelancers (those who spend more than 50% of their time on freelancing) earn less...
