Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Dance Critic Laura Bleiberg, 65
A native of Los Angeles, Bleiberg earned an undergraduate degree in history at Scripps College and a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University....
The Books You Always Meant To Read (But Haven’t)
Librarians and teachers, self-professed fans of lengthy, complex tomes, and even bookstore owners have similar tales of woe. Some of the books on the...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Perform “Under Protest” Without A Contract
They took a jab at CEO Matias Tarnopolsky, claiming his pay went up by 111% from 2019 to 2022, at the same time they...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians’ Contract Expired A Year Ago. What’s Happening?
Negotiations began over a year ago, going into formal sessions on Sept. 15, 2022, ahead of the contract’s expiration, with the Musicians Union Local...
Key To The Metropolitan Opera’s Future: Contemporary Work
Aiming to rebuild its audience from post-pandemic lows by attracting younger and more diverse ticket-buyers, the company is devoting fully one-third of 18 staged productions to...
The UK Film Industry Has Been Thriving
According to the British Film Institute (BFI), spending on such productions reached a record £6.27bn last year, with most of that money coming from overseas....
New York’s Live Performance Industry Convenes Its First Meeting
Mayor Eric Adams convened the inaugural meeting of the first-ever Live Performance Industry Council, which features a mix of leaders representing the theater, music...
How To End Doom Scrolling (It’s A Design Issue)
Like the perspectival evolution that occurred when frescoes affixed to walls gave way to portable paintings, shrinking the screen down to the size of...
Minnesota Dance Theatre Director Steps Down After 30 Years
After nearly 30 years as artistic director of Minnesota Dance Theatre, Lise Houlton is passing the reins. And it will be kept in the...
What Shocking Sudden Losses By One Of The Art World’s High End Dealers Says...
These are unusual blows to one of the largest and most smoothly run art businesses in the world, and they have incited plenty of...
Study: Australians Have Slowed Down Their Consumption Of Arts Events
Among them, this year’s survey finds that while the same proportion of Australians attended events and festivals as in 2019 and 2022, they are...
The Enduring Power Of Fairies
The Flower Fairies' influence has endured: they continue to be popular around the world – big in Japan and in Italy, where Gucci released...
Milwaukee Symphony Musicians Agree To New Contract – Pay Raise And Rethinking Auditions
The two-year contract includes pay raises, a reduction of one-week in the schedule and a promise to reconsider how auditions for the orchestra are...
The Right To Privacy? Is The American Government Spying On Library Readers?
"I was certain the FBI didn’t have some mysterious database of all U.S. libraries that could spit out the borrower record of any one...
I Come Not To Praise The Internet Novel
The internet, or more precisely, the smartphone, poses a problem for novels. If a contemporary novel wants to seem realistic, or true to life,...
YouTube Blocks Russell Brand From Earning Income From His YouTube Channel
A spokeswoman for YouTube said in an email that Mr. Brand, whose channel on the platform has 6.6 million subscribers, was suspended for violating...
How London Is Trying To Help Low-Income Artists
A long-term cultural programme in Thamesmead in south-east London has provided artists with low-rent studios and access to affordable housing. Since it began five...
Melbourne Gets A New Performing Arts Center
The venue will house a proscenium theatre with a capacity of 600, as well as a 200-seat studio theatre, two rehearsal studios and function...
Why AI Isn’t So Great At Designing Cities (Yet)
“The good modern city doesn’t exist in any dataset that will be sampled by AI. What AI will sample is Chinese cities and cities...
Institutional Critique: Jeremy Harris And The Reevaluation Of Theatre
As the initial shock of the pandemic gave way to a reëvaluation of racial and other societal arrangements, Jeremy Harris became a kind of...
His Work Was Seen By Millions, But He Was Invisible To The Artworld
He was among the most visible artists of the ’70s, with millions seeing his paintings on television each week; yet his work was excluded...
Amazon Will Limit Number Of Books Authors Can Upload To Combat AI Submissions
KDP said that, while it has not yet “seen a spike in our publishing numbers,” it is lowering the number of new titles users...
Take The Money And Run: Museum Sues Artist For Submitting Empty Frames After Being...
The museum provided about 532,000 krone (£61,500) from its reserves to recreate artworks as well as an artist’s fee of about 40,000 krone. But...
Alabama High School Band Leader Tased And Arrested When He Refused To Stop His...
The altercation happened after a Thursday football game as police were trying to clear the stadium. - AL.com
Musicians Sold Their Song Catalogs To Investment Funds For Big Money. Those Investments Haven’t...
Hipgnosis admitted that they sold these songs at 17.5% below their estimated “fair market value.” This added to the already widespread suspicion that current claims of...
