Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A Big New Museum For Las Vegas?
An “exclusive negotiating agreement” was approved during a December 6 Las Vegas City Council meeting to develop a parcel of land in the city’s downtown, paving...
Music Trends From The 2023 UK Top Music Charts
For 31 out of 52 weeks, female acts topped the chart either as solo artists or in collaboration with other musicians. Miley Cyrus had...
Broadway’s Huge Holiday Week
Winner of the week? Disney’s The Lion King, which grossed a massive $4,316,629, not only setting a house record at the Minskoff but a Broadway record...
Auction Houses Report 2023 Sales Decline
Christie’s reported a 20 percent decline in its total sales, plummeting from $8.4 billion in 2022 to $6.2 billion in 2023. Meanwhile, Sotheby’s projected...
AI Can Produce Human-like Art. It’s a Challenge For Humans To Do Better
If you believe that culture is an imaginative human endeavor, then there should be nothing to fear, except that — what do you know?...
Report: Hollywood Efforts At Diversity Are Mostly “Performative”
The center’s latest report, titled Inclusion in the Director’s Chair, called the entertainment industry’s pledges to promote inclusion “performative acts” and “not real steps towards...
When Buildings Lose Decoration, It Isn’t Pretty
What do we lose when we get rid of ornament? Quite a lot, it turns out. What to do with large blank walls remains...
More And More Americans Are Canceling Streaming Subscriptions
Customer defections across premium streaming services rose to 6.3% in November, from 5.1% a year earlier. About one-quarter of U.S. subscribers to major streaming services—a group...
Meet The Indispensable Harpsichord Maker
"I hope the 20th century ‘early music revival’ might be viewed as an important shift in outlook in the performance of music. Seeking to...
The Next Concert Halls: In Space?
Space living could also bring a revolution in concert-going, by giving new context to existing music and inspiring new ways of performing. - Washington...
The Business Of Books – Not An Art, But A Job
"A job is a material thing, a book is a material thing—a product—and if we are going to analyze material things we should set...
UK Theatre Leaders Talk About What’s Needed In 2024
"We should positively reframe and reclaim the word ‘risk’ as an artistic necessity that is vital to the future of our sector. What are the classics...
Jazz Musician Les McCann, 88
A Lexington, Kentucky, native, McCann was a vocalist and self-taught pianist whose career dated back to the 1950s, when he won a singing contest...
How The South Korean Government Is Changing The Way It Supports Artists
The culture ministry said Thursday it will move away from one-time, small grants distributed to a wide range of artists toward more targeted and...
Why Do Some People’s Personalities Change Over Time And Other Do Not?
Typically, most personality changes occur in young and older adulthood, with middle age appearing to be the period of the greatest stability. Changes in personality can be driven by the...
Vinyl Record Sales Are Growing. Can We Keep Big Labels From Ruining Everything?
In 2022, 5.5m vinyl records were bought in the UK, the largest volume of sales since 1990. Over the first nine months of last year,...
How A Cyberattack Has Crippled The British Library
The effect on the B.L. has been traumatic. Its electronic systems are still largely incapacitated. When I visited the library last Monday, the reading...
A Cancer Diagnosis That Called For A Dive Into Music
After his diagnosis, and during the pandemic, Andraes Staier continued sketching. “I didn’t start like, ‘I want to compose, and it will be done...
City Of Annapolis Asks For Input On Public Art. Then It Got Nasty
Early in December, the Art In Public Places Commission narrowed dozens of submissions to just three and posted them online with a call for feedback. They...
Deadline’s Broadway Top Ten Of 2023
What so much of Broadway did this year: Provide an unflinching eye — and offer at least a modicum of hope — during very...
The Award-Winning Plays Now Banned In Florida
That’s right: in Orange County, Florida, students currently can’t read three Tony Award winners for Best Play, as well as a major work by...
The Real Peril For Elite Universities
They will remain rich and powerful, and they will continue to have many bright and competent people working within their ambit. And yet their...
The Free Speach Wars Are A Trap
It is worth remembering the vast majority of what we call free-speech issues have little basis in the First Amendment, which only forbids the...
Faculty Have A Plan To Save Harvard
Harvard, the faculty members said, should abandon its practice of taking official positions on political or social issues, as it did during the 2020...
Dezeen’s Ten Best Skyscrapers Of 2023
The Americas dominate this year's list, with three buildings in New York, two each in Vancouver and Sao Paulo and one in Mexico City. The other two come from the...