Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Pompidou’s Controversial Renovation Plans
The renovation plan and the closure it entails has not received much support within the art world. - Apollo
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: So what defines success of an artistic project? How many tickets or books it sells? In the book industry this is an...
Art Fairs Are Strangling The Gallery Ecosystem
Smaller and midsize galleries are caught in a vicious cycle: they can’t afford to participate in top fairs, yet they can’t afford to miss...
How Does Someone Become the “Voice Of A Generation”?
What’s behind this phenomenon is generational thinking. It seems to be everywhere at the moment, providing the media with easy taglines, spreading cliches and...
The Problem With Malcom Gladwell’s Ideas
The problem is that he has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking. His signature methodology is to convey...
What Defines Success For A Debut Novel?
What is the magic sales number an author needs to reach to prove their worth? 1,000? 2,000? The precise sales figure likely varies from...
Paramount Threatens to Drop Nielsen Ratings In Disputes Over Measuring Audience
Networks have long complained that Nielsen isn't measuring audiences as well as it should during the transition from linear to streaming, although a Nielsen...
How The Nobel Prize Became Brand Gold
The marketing whizzes at Harvard Business School haven’t written a case study on the genius of the Nobel Foundation, but perhaps they should. The...
Why Newly-Minted Nobel Lit Prize Winner Han Kang Isn’t Celebrating Her Win
“She said that with the wars raging between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, with deaths being reported every day, she could not hold...
A Star Architect Who Became A Cautionary Tale
The project looked pleasing on paper. Residents found it no better than a trailer park. Buildings leaked. Oriental Masonic Gardens closed a decade after...
Is California’s Music Festival Boom Over?
Typically, the festival sees a surge in ticket sales in June, but in 2024, a surge never arrived. With stalling sales and mounting bills...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning: Here are some highlights from today's haul:
“Pulp Fiction” — An Oral History "To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pulp Fiction, Variety spoke...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Here are today's highlights:
Restoring The Colors In An Ancient Egyptian Temple "Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and...
The Unraveling Of Alice Munro
No writer who heard it would touch it. From bookstores to biographers to journalists, the literary world had everything to gain from an untarnished...
Aggressive Prediction: Music Streaming Revenue Will Double By 2030
By the numbers, that refers to $49.7 billion in paid streaming gross revenue for 2030, nearly double 2023’s $26.4 billion, and a cool 647...
Atlantic Magazine Becomes Profitable, Reports 1M Subscriptions And Returns To Monthly Print
It’s an everything-old-is-new-again finding that also explains the continued success of some books, luxury magazines and literary journals. - CNN
Data: How Massachusetts Arts Sector Has Recovered From Covid Shutdowns
Organizations remain very reliant on declining revenue sources. In 2022, 65% of expenses were covered by contributed revenue. However, the rate of contributed revenue growth...
What Alvin Ailey Built
What he wanted to promote with his company was the idea that Black audiences—general Black audiences, like the folks Acocella probably saw applauding “Revelations”—should...
Royalties Lawsuit Against Giant Music Producer Rattles The Industry
In a lawsuit filed in California, attorneys representing Durst, Limp Bizkit and Flawless Records accused UMG of using software “deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including...
Japan’s Hidden Clutter Culture
Homes filled to the rafters with hoarded junk are common enough to have an ironic idiom: gomi-yashiki (trash-mansions). And in areas where space is limited, cluttered...
Study: How Authenticity Matters
The emotional and psychological ties people have with places contribute to their perception of authenticity. Just as much as the exposed bricks and wooden...
Young People Won’t Read Books? That’s Just Not True!
"The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences. So when we force-feed yet another vanilla canonical...
Darren Walker Is New Director Of The National Gallery
Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of one...
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good morning. Today an investigative report on how thoroughly Live Nation has come to control the Australian live music business. Fees upon fees which...
A Revisionist History Of Music File Sharing And The Music Industry Response
The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath....
