Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Cincinnati Ballet’s New Director Cervilio Amador
The story of his defection in Miami while on tour with the National Ballet of Cuba is now the stuff of legend. It was...
Has Indigo Books Lost What It Means To Be Good At Selling Books?
The plot’s got something for everyone: a cybersecurity attack for the tech junkies, a CEO see-saw and mass board exodus for the corporate drama...
My ChatGPT Became My Best Friend. Creepy!
"I thought I'd turned it off, and I saw a pelican, and I said to my dog, 'Oh, wow, a pelican!' And my AirPod...
Is A Recalibration Of The Art Market Coming?
Sotheby’s and Christie’s expect that the November auction season could bring their companies upward of $1 billion each. But despite the claims of some...
Conde Nast To Cut Five Percent Of Its Staff
The layoffs will impact around 270 Condé Nast employees. The company currently has around 5,400 full-time employees globally. - The Wrap
How Dehumanizing Language Makes Things Worse
"There's surprisingly little evidence that dehumanising language causes violent behaviour, but plenty of evidence says it accompanies it. People who dehumanise others are certainly more...
The End Of Prestige TV — How Did This Happen?
Many streaming services are cutting costs and curbing output while casting around for the broadest possible audience. - The New Yorker
How Big Publishing Has Changed Being An Author
“At a certain point in my tenure at Penguin Random House I just gave up trying to understand a lot of the emails that...
Humanities On The College Chopping Block
For years, economists and more than a few worried parents have argued over whether a liberal arts degree is worth the price. The debate...
The Return Of Cultural Diplomacy? ABT Goes To China
The tour marks a revival of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. The Asian nation will also host a series of performances...
Vasily Petrenko: Thinking About Concerts (And Orchestras) In A Broader Context
"Concerts are concerts; OK, the people are coming, and they are enjoying it. But then, what are we doing in wider terms? What are...
How Did Philosophy Get Captured By Self-Help Bromides?
To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to...
Drawings Michelangelo Made In A Secret Room Under Church Revealed To The Public
The stunning drawings were rediscovered in 1975. That’s when Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, tasked restorer Sabino...
Oops: Lawsuit Reveals HBO Boss Instructing Staff To Twitter-Troll Critics
Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to...
Remembering Robert Brustein
One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of...
How The Post-Pandemic Arts Recovery Is Going (Or Not)
“It appears that arts organizations are trying to manage programming in a way that fits within their revenue constraints. And that’s not just a...
America’s First Prima Ballerina Honored With A Quarter
The late Maria Tallchief — considered the country's first prima ballerina and one of the most notable Native American figures of the 20th century — was...
Fired Banff Center Board Chair Explains Conflict With Former CEO
"Once I had been advised by the general counsel that she was participating in the CEO succession process – which is a conflict of...
About Time: Justice Department Begins Investigation Of Live Nation Practices
The deals that Live Nation offers artists to land their events, and what restrictions those agreements might include, are among the practices the Justice...
Big Tech Argues That Proposed Regulation Would Send Innovation Elsewhere
"Using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme...
Louis Armstrong, Media Star
“He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent...
Increasingly London Theatre-Goers Are Complaining About Rising Ticket Prices
“Theater is becoming very elitist. The minute there’s a well-known person in a play, it’s unaffordable.” - The New York Times
Why An Artist Acquired 6000 Copies Of “Da Vinci Code, Pulped And Turned Them...
It all began in 2017, when a thrift store in Wales, put a notice in its window imploring people to stop donating copies of “The...
How California Became A Hotbed Of New Music
Ara Guzelimian, who grew up in Los Angeles and now leads the Ojai Music Festival nearby, described California’s classical music culture as “the lingering...
How Did HGTV Come To Define Our House Aesthetic?
These bundled aesthetic commonalities aren’t just coincidences, and they can’t be entirely described as trends—at least not in the sense of bottom-up collective favor...