Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Conversations About The Parthenon Marbles Drag On
Seeking a fair resolution on the marbles can hardly be said to open the floodgates. First of all, the marbles are as close to...
Reconsidering Rachmaninoff
We are drawing a new musical map. Looking back, the 20th no longer seems the century of Stravinsky. Prokofiev once eclipsed Shostakovich—but no longer....
Music Piracy Significantly Up Last Year
There were more than 17 billion visits to music piracy websites worldwide last year, a staggering 13 percent increase from 2022, according to research...
The Met Opera’s Curious Artistic Pivot
Why has the Met, a literal gilded temple of European art, started staging middle American malaise? - Van
How Anna Weyant Became The Art World’s “It” Artist
I know why Weyant’s friend protested the dress: It could fuel the fire hose of attention that the glamorous, photogenic, and precocious painter has...
Today’s Version Of The Personal Essay Is A Dark Form
If contemporary fiction’s capacity for objectivity and thus critique is threatened by first-personalism, these failures are consolidated, Kornbluh argues, by a broader celebration of...
The Literature That Explains The Messiness Of Higher Education
Academia is a serious place, and it takes itself seriously. But it is also, like Hollywood or Washington, profoundly ridiculous — the kind of...
The Quiet CEO Rebuilding Penguin Random House
Nihar Malaviya, 49, has been at the helm of Penguin Random House for a year — not enough time to turn a battleship, but...
How LEDs Are Transforming The World
LEDs have also transformed cultural events involving creative lighting. They’re why stadium shows and EDM festivals look so freaking awesome, to fangirl for a...
331 Artists Chosen For This Year’s Venice Biennale
The number of artists featured in this year’s Biennale far surpasses the 213 artists that were included in the 2022 edition. - ARTnews
Why TrumpWorld Is Attacking The World’s Biggest Pop Star
A potential Swift appearance at Super Bowl LVIII alongside her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, has already prompted the MAGA right’s culture-war pugilists into...
NY’s Rubin Museum To Close Its Space
Rather than ceasing to exist, the museum will continue on as a spaceless institution that provides long-term loans and as an organization that will...
Dance On Our Screens Is Hugely Popular. How To Turn People On To Live...
Dance sells everything from Nike to Pepto Bismol, and now we have TikTok. But concert dance as an art form is a hard sell....
How The Art World Really Works (By An Undercover Journalist)
Her goal is to figure out why contemporary art attracts so much money, status and (occasionally) talent. She spent several years taking entry-level jobs...
Spotify Says Its New Audiobooks Division Is A Roaring Success
A spokesperson for the Swedish tech giant said users have listened to more than 90,000 individual titles from the platform’s catalogue of more than...
Bar Fight! The Frick Backs Down
After residents on the Upper East Side of Manhattan claimed they were blindsided by the Frick Collection’s plans to serve liquor from 17 bars...
The For-Profit Companies Trying To Disrupt The Classical Music Experience
Live-events company Fever is one such disruptor. Founded by Ignacio Bachiller Ströhlein, a McKinsey & Company alum, and Francisco Hein, creator of city guide Secret Media...
Study: Here Are The Entertainment Industry Jobs Most At Risk With AI
A study surveying 300 leaders across the entertainment industry reports that three-fourths of respondents indicated that AI tools supported the elimination, reduction or consolidation of jobs...
The Real Problem With American Universities
The 4,000 or so degree-granting institutions of higher learning in America don’t tend to operate like businesses, which must adapt or die. Instead, a...
Why Some People Have Difficulty Accepting New Ideas
“For a long time, creativity research has focused on how do you generate new ideas? What’s the secret sauce? I think that that’s not...
“Rhapsody in Blue” Is Kitsch? Consider The Bigger Context?
To consider Gershwin’s work declassé, kitschy, corny and/or inflated, chastising it for sinful appropriation or for outshining worthier works, seems to me to miss...
Universal Music Threatens To Pull Music Off TikTok. Here’s Universal’s Statement
Ultimately TikTok is trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value for the music. - Universal Music
“We Were Duped!”: Movie Audiences Shocked To Learn They Were Watching Musicals
“A lot of people who are walking out of musicals and loving them may not even know that it was a musical,” said Paul Dergarabedian,...
Rebellion At The Royal Society Of Literature
Set up under the patronage of George IV to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent”, the society still has royal sponsorship from Queen...
Hundreds Of Immersive Art Experiences Are Changing The Art World
Outernet in December announced that it recorded 6.25 million visitors in its first year of operation, while the British Museum attracted 5.83 million visitors...
