Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Things Emily Dickinson Collected — Now Online
Last week, a public database cataloging all those family objects—more than 8,000 of them—went live. The unparalleled collection has been assembled by the Amherst-based Emily...
Southbank’s New Leaders Have A Plan
Mark Ball and Aaron Wright are eager to recapture that past glory and make new connections with a programme in which established artists, rising...
Inside The Science Of Figuring Out Crowds
Crowd science has long been working to understand how throngs can turn dangerous. It has borrowed from psychology and epidemiology, and now is also...
Inside Discontent At The Cleveland Institute Of Music
In a months-long investigation, VAN interviewed nearly 30 students, faculty, and staff at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Many spoke to VAN on condition...
224-Year-Old Virginia Library In Danger Of Shutting Over Book-Banning Fight
The library was founded in 1799 and counts itself as the second oldest in the state. It is separate from county government even though...
A NY City Ballet Dancer Grapples With Retirement
On Sunday, I will retire from New York City Ballet after 16 years with the company. I have spent over a year preparing myself,...
Recording Industry Is Having A Record-Breaking Year
Streaming revenue was up 10.3 percent from last year — at $7 billion, it accounts for 84 percent of music revenue in the United States....
When AI Models Disagree: Two Different Verdicts On Whether A Painting Is By Raphael....
“I am concerned that this situation could potentially undermine the progress we have made in the past five years in establishing A.I. as a...
Dance Critic Laura Bleiberg, 65
A native of Los Angeles, Bleiberg earned an undergraduate degree in history at Scripps College and a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University....
The Books You Always Meant To Read (But Haven’t)
Librarians and teachers, self-professed fans of lengthy, complex tomes, and even bookstore owners have similar tales of woe. Some of the books on the...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Perform “Under Protest” Without A Contract
They took a jab at CEO Matias Tarnopolsky, claiming his pay went up by 111% from 2019 to 2022, at the same time they...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians’ Contract Expired A Year Ago. What’s Happening?
Negotiations began over a year ago, going into formal sessions on Sept. 15, 2022, ahead of the contract’s expiration, with the Musicians Union Local...
Key To The Metropolitan Opera’s Future: Contemporary Work
Aiming to rebuild its audience from post-pandemic lows by attracting younger and more diverse ticket-buyers, the company is devoting fully one-third of 18 staged productions to...
The UK Film Industry Has Been Thriving
According to the British Film Institute (BFI), spending on such productions reached a record £6.27bn last year, with most of that money coming from overseas....
New York’s Live Performance Industry Convenes Its First Meeting
Mayor Eric Adams convened the inaugural meeting of the first-ever Live Performance Industry Council, which features a mix of leaders representing the theater, music...
How To End Doom Scrolling (It’s A Design Issue)
Like the perspectival evolution that occurred when frescoes affixed to walls gave way to portable paintings, shrinking the screen down to the size of...
Minnesota Dance Theatre Director Steps Down After 30 Years
After nearly 30 years as artistic director of Minnesota Dance Theatre, Lise Houlton is passing the reins. And it will be kept in the...
What Shocking Sudden Losses By One Of The Art World’s High End Dealers Says...
These are unusual blows to one of the largest and most smoothly run art businesses in the world, and they have incited plenty of...
Study: Australians Have Slowed Down Their Consumption Of Arts Events
Among them, this year’s survey finds that while the same proportion of Australians attended events and festivals as in 2019 and 2022, they are...
The Enduring Power Of Fairies
The Flower Fairies' influence has endured: they continue to be popular around the world – big in Japan and in Italy, where Gucci released...
Milwaukee Symphony Musicians Agree To New Contract – Pay Raise And Rethinking Auditions
The two-year contract includes pay raises, a reduction of one-week in the schedule and a promise to reconsider how auditions for the orchestra are...
The Right To Privacy? Is The American Government Spying On Library Readers?
"I was certain the FBI didn’t have some mysterious database of all U.S. libraries that could spit out the borrower record of any one...
I Come Not To Praise The Internet Novel
The internet, or more precisely, the smartphone, poses a problem for novels. If a contemporary novel wants to seem realistic, or true to life,...
YouTube Blocks Russell Brand From Earning Income From His YouTube Channel
A spokeswoman for YouTube said in an email that Mr. Brand, whose channel on the platform has 6.6 million subscribers, was suspended for violating...
How London Is Trying To Help Low-Income Artists
A long-term cultural programme in ThamesÂmead in south-east London has provided artists with low-rent studios and access to affordable housing. Since it began five...
