Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Dance Is Adjusting To New Post-COVID Norms
During the past three years, we’ve caught glimpses of healthier ways to conduct business, produce more inclusive events and better support artists. Right now...
Of Course Ed Sheeran Won His Case. But AI Is A Whole New Ballgame...
For as long as there has been music, there has been the practice of “contrafact,” the use of another song’s chord progression to create...
Breaking Boundaries: Tyshawn Sorey
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, Sorey is a musical universalist who has little use for categories and labels. He feels they are reductive and irrelevant...
Physical Books Have Reached That Awkward Stage
Kindle is to literature what Instagram or TikTok are to visual images, or Spotify to music. They have their uses, but it would be absurd for the British Library,...
When You Have All Of Classical Music In Your Ear: Too Easy, Too Good?
"I am not resistant to progress, not a Luddite, not an anti-vaxxer. But putting the whole of classical music onto a device that fits...
What An AI-Created Novel Looks Like
Quite quickly, I figured out that if you want an AI to imitate Raymond Chandler, the last thing you should do is ask it...
PS1 Names New Director
Connie Butler, currently chief curator at the Hammer, is to assume her new position at the museum in Long Island City, Queens, on Sept....
Why The Writers’ Strike Is The “Netflix Strike”
In the industry, some are dubbing this year’s labor action “the Netflix strike. Netflix in a lot of ways has upended the business model,...
Archaeologists Discover What They’re Calling An Ancient “Arabian Stonehenge” In Oman
The trilith was discovered at the Zufar site and dates back 2,000 years. Triliths are made up of three flat standing stones 50 to...
My Color Isn’t Your Color: How We Perceive It
For a long time, people believed that colours were objective, physical properties of objects or of the light that bounced off them. But this...
How To Label A Deepfake? Technology Is Working On That
As creators work to develop more detailed frameworks for deepfake and AI disclosure, disciplines and modes like accessibility theory, interactive storytelling, TikTok, footnoting practices,...
Silk Road Project Gets A New Executive Director
One of the major projects Ben Hartley will take on as executive director is the first national tour of “American Railroad." The multimodal project...
Dance Is The Most Ephemeral Art: What Gets Left Behind
Dancers and choreographers often become unintentional collectors, accumulating valuable records of an art form with few tangible traces. And once artists are gone, families...
Hula Is Thriving
“This is hands down the best time to be in Hawaii, and to be able to see that the Hawaiian people are thriving: in...
The Pittsburgh Symphony’s New Steinway Wasn’t Quite Doing The Job. So Steinway Sent A...
Every piano has a noticeably different “character” of sound. It’s the kind of thing you might think you need training to hear, but then...
Performing Arts COVID Recovery: Which Arts Are “More-Recovered” Than Others
Of the four genres, performing arts centers and ballet compete for the “most recovered” position by the end of 2022, in different ways. -...
How The Turner Prize Has Reflected British Politics
My research often focuses on how art and politics have intersected during the past few decades. With a whirlwind 40-year socio-political history this lens...
Cellphone Interrupts And Stops Philadelphia Orchestra Performance – Twice. Nezet-Seguin Gets Angry
“Can we live without the phone for just one damn hour?” he asked. He went on to point out that the audience had paid...
NPR Stopped Tweeting. So Now Elon Musk Wants To Recycle @NPR To Someone Else
His remark on Tuesday that he may transfer NPR's primary Twitter account with nearly 9 million followers to another entity is typical of how...
Beaux Arts Piano Trio Pianist Menahem Pressler, 99
The Beaux Arts Trio would go on to play more than 4,000 concerts throughout the world while recording virtually all the standard trio repertory....
Soprano Grace Bumbry, 86
Few audiences had ever heard a Black singer perform in an opera house when Ms. Bumbry was growing up in St. Louis in the...
Hollywood Producers Push Back Against Writers Union Claims
“We don’t agree with applying a one-size-fits-all solution to shows that are unique and different in their approach to creative staffing,” the AMPTP stated....
Most Artists Have Day Jobs. Are They Asset Or Liability?
Day Jobs makes the countersuggestion that, for people with creative ambitions, day jobs should be recorded not as losses but as gains. - The Baffler
Movie Audiences Returning? Theatre Owner AMC Posts Strong 20 Percent Sales Gain
Losses narrowed by $102 million to $235 million, for an adjusted EPS of 17 cents a share, a also ahead of expectations. Shares popped...
Immersive Shows: Hated By Critics, Loved By Audiences
Critics generally hate the shows, but, if attendance figures are anything to go by, the paying public loves them. Museums have taken notice of...
