Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Egyptian Government Just Rented Out The Pyramids To MrBeast
MrBeast says on the podcast that he worked with the Egyptian government to get access to the historic site. “I’ve never been inside of it,”...
How Judith Jamison Shaped The Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Under Jamison’s direction, the Ailey dancers grew more and more godlike in technique without losing earthly looseness and soul. - The New Yorker
The Year That Was In NY Theatre
Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit companies continued to struggle....
How Music Shapes Our Future Perceptions
“Sound directs our passage through time. It shapes our orientation to the future moment and also to the moment when the future stops.” -...
Rousseau’s Philosophical Diagnosis Of What Ails Us (Still Relevant Today)
Rousseau was, in effect, the diagnostician of despair who captured the affliction of alienation in all of its dimensions. The source of our affliction...
How Did A Publishing Startup Land 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A...
So far this year, Bloom has landed 23 books and two series on the New York Times best-seller list. Last year, it surpassed $100...
Charlotte Symphony Is Making Big Investments In Immersive Performances
“It is going to be a space you can choose where to be and how to listen,” Fisk said. “We want people to lose...
Movie Producers Sue National Parks System Over Permits In Parks
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wyoming federal court, Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith challenge the constitutionality of federal permit and fee requirements on First Amendment...
Can A Musical Be A Better Way Of Focusing Politics On An Issue?
Like the drama series about the Post Office scandal aired a year ago, “Mr Bates vs The Post Office,” dramatizations of the news can often...
Executive Director, Dance On Camera
Dance on Camera is looking for an Executive Director who believes in the power of movement on film, is highly organized, and is excited by the prospect of building on a 50+year legacy
Canadian Movie And TV Production Sinks
Volume was down 18.5% to C$9.58B ($6.68B) in the 12 months between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024, according to the Canadian Media Producers...
Jennifer Homans Remembers Arlene Croce
She had always insisted that what she was reviewing was not a dance itself but an “afterimage” imprinted in her mind, something personal and...
How America Redefined Old Age
Contemporary America segregates debility and death, and it’s costing us, body and soul, writes Duke University historian James Chappel. - The American Scholar
How The Politics Of Smell In Prose Broke The Internet
I wanted to share with my academic network, so I posted a photo of myself holding a physical copy of my PhD thesis on X. The...
Facing Funding Stress, Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Scraps Its Free Admission
Free general admission was introduced in 2000 under the directorship of Elizabeth Ann MacGregor with the aid of a Telstra sponsorship. But stagnant government...
On The Front Lines Of Art Therapy
“We work a lot with trauma and survivors who maybe are struggling to find the words to be able to describe what they’ve endured....
Staying Involved: Leonard Lauder’s Art Philanthropy Philosophy
“What museums are known for is not their architecture or their shows but ultimately their collections." But building great collections takes time, patience and...
How A Long-Ago TV Host Explained Art And The Avant Garde
Its host, Lorser Feitelson, would become the interlocutor between the avant-garde and the country’s first generation of television viewers. He was personable, pedigreed and...
The New Music Counterculture – It’s Anti-Algo, Anti-Perfection
These creators are opting not to play in the traditional music business lane (largely because they would struggle to get the rights cleared). So,...
Disney’s Excellent Year At The Box Office ($2 Billion)
Disney had three of the top five films in Inside Out 2 ($652.9M), the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time Deadpool & Wolverine ($636.7M) and Moana 2 ($342M). - Deadline
We Live In Extreme Data — How To Make Sense Of It?
Where you are, what you’re looking at, and what you like is being tracked more or less constantly—either you’re doing it to yourself voluntarily,...
Everything We Do These Days Is Measured And Informed By Data. Does This Really...
We talk a lot these days about Big Data, those heaping stores of digitized information that, fueling search and recommendation engines, social media feeds,...
Mondrian: The Ultimate Influencer?
His entire life was built around knowing what to leave out, from both his art and his modest billets (he only ever owned a...
What Did The 20th Century Novel Accomplish? Anything?
The genre’s masterworks urge us to set a slower pace, savoring what each novelist puts on the table and realizing, as we push back...
Artists Ponder UK’s Proposed ‘Right to Personality’ Plan For Copyright
Decades-old copyright legislation varies by region but is generally too outdated to be reliably applied to the new challenges presented by generative A.I. This...