Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Speculating On The Whitney Museum’s Murky Handling Of The Hopper Estate
The museum simply used me to avoid the scandal that would result if the public learned that many works said to be by Hopper...
Netflix Is A Giant. But The Streaming Business Has Gotten Significantly More Difficult
To be Netflix these days is to occupy the strange dichotomy of being a company that has won the war but still has plenty of...
A Heroic Effort To Save Pittsburgh’s National Opera House, Home To A Rich African-American...
It was supposed to cost $3 million to flip the house from a crumbling ruin to a vibrant community center with musical performances and...
How A Small Technical Change By Apple Sent Podcast Listener Stats Plummeting
A user who listened to a show a few times, subscribed, but stopped listening would continue to count as a download indefinitely. Even better under...
Study: Kids’ Reading Comprehension Goes Up Reading Physical Books Compared To Reading on Screens
A soon-to-be published, groundbreaking study from neuroscientists at Columbia University’s Teachers College has come down decisively on the matter: for “deeper reading” there is a clear...
How Apple Could Win Back The Music Business From Spotify (And Pay Musicians)
In his plan, Apple would take each subscriber's monthly fee and distribute 90% to the artists that subscriber listened to that month (pro rata based on...
A Window On The Future Of Opera
Even when all might be lost in a hopeless desert of lifeless toxic sludge, the future feels bright. - Washington Post
A Brief History Of American Dialects
Myriad factors influence variations among American accents and dialects, including waves of settlement in a region, geographic location and class differences. - Smithsonian
UK Theatres Gasping To Restructure After Devasting Year
The Royal Court says it' seeking to "find new business models to sustain the theatre", while Hampstead has said 2022/23 turned out to be...
Report: Half As Many Scripted TV Shows Are Being Made As Were In 2019
The "report, published Friday and looking at scripted TV seasons being ordered in the U.S., noted that the volume of U.S. series has nearly...
How Math Plays A Role In All The Arts
The connections between mathematics and music have been celebrated since at least as far back as the Pythagoreans. However, though there has been writing...
The Tyranny Of Emoji Reactions
As a matter of official policy, reactions are supposed to relieve you of the burden of writing out a full response. But all of...
Want Your Dancers To Be More Creative? Help Them Also To Be Creative Outside...
Kerry Nicholls has worked as a choreographer, teacher and consultant, as well as associate artistic director to Rojo at English National Ballet. Rather than help...
Guthrie Theatre Chooses New Managing Director
Trisha Kirk has been a member of the Guthrie team since 1985 and has held various positions, including season ticket manager, box office manager,...
An AI-Created Performance Of George Carlin Demonstrates What’s Wrong With AI
The special, tastefully titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” is one of the most unpleasant things ostensibly produced for entertainment purposes that I have ever...
Appreciating Joan Acocella
On the page, her fabulous erudition was melded to a frankness that was so unaffected as to seem effortless. Actually—a very Joan word—simplicity is...
Art Fairs Are Expensive And Less Effective For Galleries Selling. Still, The Galleries Can’t...
Anecdotally, the increasing costs of fair stands and their associated shipping, travel and entertainment budgets were already taking quite a toll pre-pandemic, but inflation...
Do You Speak To Yourself? Is It Speech? In Words?
The philosopher Peter Carruthers, who has written a fair amount, and variously, about inner speech, has argued that inner speech may have specifically arisen...
Pittsburgh Ballet Set Attendance Records For 2023’s “Nutcracker.” Maybe It’s Time To Bring Back...
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre once had a live orchestra for all of its “Nutcracker” performances, but in an ugly move that still rankles local musicians,...
How TV Has Lost Its Way (Looking At You Netflix and HBO)
Eventually, TV’s contraction will yield a new Netflix, a new HBO, looking to exploit a desire for bold programming. In the meantime, this year’s...
How Algorithmic Curation Has (Is) Changing Culture
It homogenizes, and it silos. It’s the commons, but with gatekeepers. There’s never been anything like it! But it’s really just an extension of...
This Year’s World Monument Fund Preservation Projects
This year’s efforts include responses to last year’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and repairing damage in Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing war. - Artnet
Turns Out Louisa May Alcott Wrote Under Pseudonym
One of the pseudonyms is believed to be E. H. Gould, including a story about her house in Concord, Massachusetts, and a ghost story along...
The Doctor Musicians
Some reached the level where a career as either a professional musician or a doctor lay before them, before choosing the unquestionably sounder career...
Why Don’t Arts Organizations Pay More Attention To Their Digital Presence?
What is often the most engaged touch point with patrons is often also one of the most forgotten (and underinvested) areas in arts organizations. -...
