Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Poetry Is Dead Now. We Can Place The Time Of Death
Modest as the festivities have been, I am certain that in 100 years there will be no poem whose centenary is the object of...
Mercedes Bass’ Plan For The Fort Worth Symphony
Relying on her own keen sense of how classical music should sound, she developed a plan that would bring together the finest musicians, outstanding...
How The Culture Wars Are Tearing Apart Museums
The saga of the Philip Guston exhibition, “Philip Guston Now,” that was postponed in late 2020 demonstrates how museums now suffer from an identity...
Listening Plan: A January To Understand Today’s Classical Music
The boundaries of classical music are ever more porous and open, spilling into other forms and all to the good. Give up prejudice or...
Why Sondheim Resonates With The Younger Generation
My students could appreciate his skill as a musical dramatist, his innovations as a craftsman, his inventive wit and longing harmonic lines. But what...
Understanding The Genius Of Thelonius Monk
Neither a cult reputation as a pioneer of bebop nor American canonization quite does justice to Monk, who was simply one of the most...
A Rookie Orchestra Recording By A Youth Orchestra, Finalist For A Grammy
The album, which is untitled, came together after six weeks of remote instruction followed by in person socially distant rehearsals and four days of recording sessions...
Does AI Make Plagiarism Undetectable? We College Professors Are Smarter Than That!
"For me, this new AI bot is not scarey, or even revolutionary. It’s just the latest con for those who would seek to dupe...
A Comprehensive List Of Works Now In The Public Domain As Of This Week
Every year, Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, puts together an extensive list of expiring U.S. copyrights,...
How Failure And Disillusionment Fuel Accomplishment
This turns out to be a running theme — how a strain of perfectionism can doom a pursuit of failure to, well, failure. -...
Cable TV’s Fierce Downward Subscriber Plunge
Today, roughly two-thirds of U.S. households pay for a cable, satellite or fiber TV subscription, down from 79% in 2017 and 85% in 2007. - Axios
The Ukrainian Ballet Company Fighting From The Stage
"I still think about how I could do more for my country. I think about this every day, but while my friends and family...
AI Art As Commodity Might Make Sense. But That Is Not What Art Is
In a culture that has commodified art to the degree ours has, it was probably inevitable that so many would conclude art is nothing...
Why Irish Art Galleries Need Help
It irks Kevin Kavanagh that the role played by private art galleries is not valued by the Arts Council, from which they get no...
Inside The Long-running HarperCollins Publishing Strike
"For almost a year now, it’s been clear that the HarperCollins People Team and the lawyers from our parent company, News Corp, hope that...
Kennedy Center Honors Score Big TV Ratings
The two-hour special averaged about 5.1 million total viewers, which was up 18% compared to last year’s audience of about 4.3M. It was the...
The Hundreds Of Museums Showcasing LA’s Diversity
These museums, hundreds of them, reflect the idiosyncrasies and specialized interests of their founders while offering a window into the ethnic, cultural and historical...
The Seventies: The Decade Taste Deserted
Nostalgic TV programmes often want us to remember the ’70s as the decade that “taste forgot”. They offer up montages of space hoppers, avocado-coloured bathroom...
New York Public Library Appoints New Research Library Chief
Brent Reidy will be responsible for four public research centers — the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln...
Classical Music And The Terminology Trap
The more you get to know classical music, the more you’ll understand and appreciate the terminology. - The Conversation
When Mail Mattered
Mail mattered then, as it had from the beginnings of the republic through the 1970s, more or less, when the falling price of long-distance...
“My” Dancers?
I started bristling at the commonplace phrase: “my dancers.” And I find it increasingly problematic, especially in light of our woefully overdue national reckoning...
Arts Patronage Has Always Been Messy
What then makes a great patron? Bags of cash, obviously, but what else? The best patrons — the ones you can count on to...
Creative AI May Just Be The Next In A Long Line Of Tools
GPT may be not so much a revolutionary leap forward as another step down a long, well-trodden path. Insofar as it is used for...
Anonymity As Fuel For Renegade Scholarship?
The equation of anonymity on the internet with deviance, mischief and hate has become a central plank in the global war on “misinformation”. But...
