Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Did Italy’s Agnelli Family Replace Art With Fakes During An Inheritance Dispute?
Italian prosecutors are investigating claims that members of the Agnelli family arranged for works by Monet and de Chirico to be replaced with forgeries...
Two Years Ago The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Declared Bankruptcy. Now It’s Back
On the road to their return, the musicians took on side jobs, staged free community concerts and fought to bring the symphony back through legal...
Can TikTok Build Interest In Classical Music?
The program will support and elevate a select cohort of 10 U.K.-based creators passionate about classical music who are already making content about the...
Public Media’s Moment To Shine (Or Not)
Public media stations reach 99% of the country’s population with free, noncommercial, local news, music and information. Yet their greatest strength — broadcast dominance built over...
Public Broadcasting Lost Federal Funding. But Public Broadcasting Continues
Although the massive wave of federal funding cuts may sometimes seem insurmountable for private donors to offset, cuts to public broadcasting are not so...
Living With People Whose Ideas You Don’t Like
We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some time, and doing...
Father Of The Internet: We Created The Internet And Gave It Away For Free....
Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. Trading...
What The AI Actor Tilly Says About The Bland State Of Movies Today
It is not on screen for long and perhaps vanishes just before you sense something’s off, but as things stand, “Tilly” doesn’t look obviously...
Menand: What, Now, Is This Free Speech Of Which You Speak?
If the Administration’s actions are so blatantly unlawful, why does everyone seem to be caving? Some of it is just cost-benefit analysis. - The...
Big Publishing’s Gambling Problem
Because the majority of books don’t earn out, most people in publishing have the disappointing experience of working on a book they love that,...
The Strad As Overpriced Object Of Art
The violins may be rare, excellently made, and, to some, worth the money. But none of that is actually worth a fig if their...
How Our Screens Are Changing How We Interact With The World
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft...
Artists Are Projecting Satiric Trump Images On Buildings Around LA
An anonymous street art collective using the moniker Vjaybombs is behind the satirical artworks (which they call “projection bombs” and “guerrilla projections”), broadcasting them...
The Network TV Model Is Dead. It Won’t Take Much To Topple It
I wonder why Nexstar is even pursuing a multibillion-dollar deal to buy TV stations. Traditionally it's been a great investment. But tradition is all...
Critics Slam US Comedians For Participating In Saudi Comedy Festival
In its statement announcing the event, the General Entertainment Authority described the festival as "the largest of its kind globally," adding that it "reflects...
YouTube Pays Trump $24.5 Million To Settle Lawsuit
YouTube froze Mr. Trump’s account after the riot, blocking him from uploading new videos and arguing that the content could lead to more violence. Mr....
UC Irvine Takes Over Troubled Orange County Museum Of Art
The University of California, Irvine will take over administration and operating costs for the troubled museum, which this year has weathered the announcement that...
Venice La Fenice Opera Threatens Strike Over Appointment Of New Music Director
When theater officials announced last week that La Fenice’s new music director would be the conductor Beatrice Venezi, some members of the company were...
YouTube Is Testing AI Hosts That Will Interrupt Music Streams
The streaming site says Labs will offer a glimpse of the AI features it's developing for YouTube Music, and it starts with AI "hosts"...
The Literary Biography Is Thriving
"As I enter my fifth decade in the genre, I’m happy to number the brilliant younger biographers whose careers I’m following in the dozens."...
Photographer Sally Mann: Behold a New Chapter In The Culture Wars
Mann, whose work is held at major art institutions around the world, is reeling after police seized four of her most celebrated — and...
NPR Sues Corporation For Public Broadcasting Over Satellite Grant
NPR had been told by CPB in early April that it would soon receive more than $30 million to cover the next three years...
Lebrecht Weighs In On Our Crisis Of Criticism
A conductor is fired only for sex, a reviewer not even for that. So when four chief critics are blown away in one afternoon,...
A Controversial Musical That Challenges Mexico’s Founding
The tensions and controversies over how Mexico, the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world today, should interpret both its Indigenous and Spanish past remain...
Financial Support For Museums Is Changing. Here’s How
In the late 20th century and into the early 2000s, museums relied on a value proposition of individual prestige: big collections, big buildings, big...
