Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Long Lost Gershwin Musical Manuscript Found
The approximately 800 pages of material included the musical’s complete orchestration, with parts for flute, cello, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, bass and piano. -...
The Critic’s Enthusiasms: Joan Acocella
Acocella’s attention is fixed first on the lives of her readers. She doesn’t neglect to tell us a writer’s best book and is never...
How We Picture Sound In Our Minds
If you think of a sound, such as a dog barking, a loved one’s voice, or a favorite tune, to what extent can you...
Machines That Can Read Minds Are Teaching Us About Ourselves
Results are overturning assumptions about brain anatomy, for example, revealing that regions often have much fuzzier boundaries and job descriptions than was thought. - Nature
AM Radio Is Dying. Bernie Sanders And Ted Cruz Want To Save It
According to Ford’s internal data gathered from some of its newer vehicles, less than 5 percent of all in-car listening is to AM radio....
TV Industry Contracts And Talent Scrambles For Jobs
On top of fewer shows and virtually no pilots, the available acting gigs pay less than they used to amid rising cost of living,...
The Unwinding Of Art Publisher Louise Blouin
Ms. Blouin plowed resources into an art news site, ArtInfo, staffing it with young journalists. She also moved into philanthropy with the founding of...
The “Art Crime” Professor And The State Of The Art
"I am frustrated by how often repatriation activists have to reinvent the wheel, which is another reason that I think social media has been...
Inside The Sausage Factory: The Pianist/Influencer Peeling Back The Curtain
What if I showed up as a human experimenting with classical music? Would that make classical music more human? This was a long time...
Antilogic And The Ancient Art Of Suspending Judgment
Antilogic was a form of contradiction that caused a person to simultaneously believe opposite things about a single event or phenomenon, without any way...
18 Shows Are Opening On Broadway This Spring. Too Many?
The density of late-season openings — 11 plays and musicals over a nine-day stretch in late April — has producers and investors worried about...
Why The Village Voice Worked
People showed up straight from college, because working at the Voice had always been their dream, despite substandard wages and word rates, paltry expense budgets, and...
Could The NY Times Win Its Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI?
Unlike Google’s search engine, generative AI models sometimes do produce creative works that compete directly with the works they were trained on. And this puts these...
The State Of Today’s Culture
The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s...
Broadway’s Big Presidents Day Box Office Boost
The Presidents Day Weekend was like a little Christmas gift for Broadway, with grosses for the 23 productions posting a hefty 27% increase over...
A Staggering $100M Canadian Art Fraud
A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. - Smithsonian
Bellevue Arts Museum Declares A Crisis, Says It Might Have To Close
“We’re at the place where the straw breaks the camel’s back,” Kate Scher said. She called the crisis a “combined product” of the museum’s lack...
How AI Is Changing Music
AI is already changing how musicians compose and play music in ways hard to imagine only a few years ago, opening up new horizons...
The Systematic Destruction Of Gaza’s Buildings
Since October 7 2023, the bombardment of Gaza is reported to have damaged more than 100 historic sites and destroyed 69,700 homes. - The Conversation
Pro-Palestine Protestors Take Over MoMA
MoMA had shut down completely. It would not reopen until the following day. Visitors were ferried to the exits. Outside, a soft-spoken museum employee...
Ways Of Looking At Art
In a YouGov survey released in 2023, nearly half of Americans said they didn’t consider themselves artistic. At 58 percent, even more respondents said they weren’t...
Debunking Reasons For Looking At Art
Art, I have preached, is for bildung, self-development, especially within the context of an undergraduate education. Art helps you to become a deeper, freer...
Alonzo King: Attaching Dance To The World
That prospect of dance having a life and an urgency beyond an arrangement of steps has fueled King’s path as a dancer and a...
The Web As We Know It Is About To Change
Seeking information using a search engine could be almost completely replaced by this new generation of large language model-powered systems. - The Wall Street...
Book Bans Are Bad Enough. Stripping Libraries Of Funding Is A Whole Other Bad
While the nation has been focusing on book bans, school libraries all around us have gone without enough (noncontroversial) books. Or inviting furniture. Or amenities that would help...
