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This Week’s Top AJ Stories: A Huge Drop In Dance Audiences, MFA Programs.

October 23, 2016 by Douglas McLennan 1 Comment

This Week: Why has dance attendance fallen off a cliff in New York?... Applications for MFA programs are down and things are looking bleak... Has our ad-supported business model for content killed quality?... There's a big surge in art that addresses political issues... Bob Dylan, and what he means. What's Caused A Precipitous Drop In Dance Attendance In NYC? New York is the center of the … [Read more...]

The Bigger Picture: Making Sense Of This Week’s Trending ArtsJournal Stories

October 16, 2016 by Douglas McLennan 3 Comments

This Week: Did Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature expand the category to songwriting?... Artists protest against gentrification... We're deeply conflicted about the value of creativity... Is Google rewiring our brains so they don't work so well?... Are we all living in a giant computer simulation? (don't laugh) American Wins Nobel Literature Prize (Just Not The American Anyone … [Read more...]

Five AJ Highlights From This Week: A Golden Age For Music? An Arts Olympics?

October 9, 2016 by Douglas McLennan 1 Comment

This Week: The movie industry is undergoing a top-to-bottom revolution... Claim: teaching humanities fights racism... Outing the identity of Elena Ferrante sparks debate on privacy... Now may be the best-ever time for music... Do we really need an Olympics for the arts? Big Changes In How Movies Are Being Made: Hollywood had a rocky summer. The studios invested big in blockbusters but they … [Read more...]

AJ Week In Review: Two Big Orchestras Strike, Two Others Report Record Success

October 2, 2016 by Douglas McLennan 2 Comments

This Week: Three orchestras now on strike as audience waits... Two other orchestras report record success... A museum raises $100 million in just three months... Bots are getting awfully good at making art... More links between being bored and being creative. A Bad Week For Three Orchestras: The audience was sitting in Verizon Hall waiting for the Philadelphia Orchestra to take the stage … [Read more...]

Douglas McLennan

I’m the founder and editor of ArtsJournal, which was founded in September 1999 and aggregates arts and culture news from all over the internet. The site is also home to some 60 arts bloggers. I’m a … [Read More...]

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Our culture is undergoing profound changes. Our expectations for what culture can (or should) do for us are changing. Relationships between those who make and distribute culture and those who consume it are changing. And our definitions of what artists are, how they work, and how we access them and their work are changing. So... [Read more]

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