Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Dance Is The Most Ephemeral Art: What Gets Left Behind
Dancers and choreographers often become unintentional collectors, accumulating valuable records of an art form with few tangible traces. And once artists are gone, families...
Hula Is Thriving
“This is hands down the best time to be in Hawaii, and to be able to see that the Hawaiian people are thriving: in...
The Pittsburgh Symphony’s New Steinway Wasn’t Quite Doing The Job. So Steinway Sent A...
Every piano has a noticeably different “character” of sound. It’s the kind of thing you might think you need training to hear, but then...
Performing Arts COVID Recovery: Which Arts Are “More-Recovered” Than Others
Of the four genres, performing arts centers and ballet compete for the “most recovered” position by the end of 2022, in different ways. -...
How The Turner Prize Has Reflected British Politics
My research often focuses on how art and politics have intersected during the past few decades. With a whirlwind 40-year socio-political history this lens...
Cellphone Interrupts And Stops Philadelphia Orchestra Performance – Twice. Nezet-Seguin Gets Angry
“Can we live without the phone for just one damn hour?” he asked. He went on to point out that the audience had paid...
NPR Stopped Tweeting. So Now Elon Musk Wants To Recycle @NPR To Someone Else
His remark on Tuesday that he may transfer NPR's primary Twitter account with nearly 9 million followers to another entity is typical of how...
Beaux Arts Piano Trio Pianist Menahem Pressler, 99
The Beaux Arts Trio would go on to play more than 4,000 concerts throughout the world while recording virtually all the standard trio repertory....
Soprano Grace Bumbry, 86
Few audiences had ever heard a Black singer perform in an opera house when Ms. Bumbry was growing up in St. Louis in the...
Hollywood Producers Push Back Against Writers Union Claims
“We don’t agree with applying a one-size-fits-all solution to shows that are unique and different in their approach to creative staffing,” the AMPTP stated....
Most Artists Have Day Jobs. Are They Asset Or Liability?
Day Jobs makes the countersuggestion that, for people with creative ambitions, day jobs should be recorded not as losses but as gains. - The Baffler
Movie Audiences Returning? Theatre Owner AMC Posts Strong 20 Percent Sales Gain
Losses narrowed by $102 million to $235 million, for an adjusted EPS of 17 cents a share, a also ahead of expectations. Shares popped...
Immersive Shows: Hated By Critics, Loved By Audiences
Critics generally hate the shows, but, if attendance figures are anything to go by, the paying public loves them. Museums have taken notice of...
Memorials To Pushkin In Ukraine Are Under Threat
Pushkin has been falling rapidly in Ukraine. Since the start of the full-scale invasion last February, more than 30 monuments to the poet have been dismantled....
When Screens And Live Theatre Collide
One of the most intriguing aspects of the celebrated show is the live video recording, with close-ups of the actors and occasional puppetry interludes...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Out In Midst Of Emergency Fundraising Campaign
What led to Nataki Garrett’s resignation after just four years in the post, in which she spent as much or more time handling crises...
The Instagramization Of The Broadway Stage
These unmissable logos seem designed to engage audiences with the stage quite actively, creating an Instagrammable moment in a space where cameras are mostly...
Verdict In The Ed Sheeran Copyright Case
Sheeran had faced allegations that he copied parts of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” for his 2014 song, “Thinking Out Loud.” Heirs of...
Rethinking What Fatigue Is
“People often think about” fatigue “in terms of ‘oh, people are tired all the time.’ But fatigue is so much more pervasive and detrimental...
High Fashion: What Happens When Superfakes Are Indistinguishable From The Real Thing
My plunge into the world of fantastically realistic counterfeit purses — known as “superfakes” to vexed fashion houses and I.P. lawyers, or “unclockable reps”...
The Art Of Being Informed Post-Twitter
Until the past year’s insipid Musk-related shenanigans, the platform functioned as an efficient information delivery system that made it unique among its social media...
The Pressures Of Beauty Have Ever Been Thus
In her 1991 book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf argued that the standards of western female beauty were used as a weapon to stagnate the...
Hollywood’s Canadian Production Was Up 27 Percent In 2022
The number of foreign, mostly Hollywood, feature films that shot in Canada jumped from 141 in 2021 to 171 pictures last year, with total...
NYC’s Natural History Museum Adds A Wing For The Natural World
A mega-attraction devoted to the natural world may seem an odd fit for Manhattan, one of the most human-manipulated landscapes on earth. But in...
Washington Post Launches A TV Channel
On May 6, Washington Post Television will go live with continuous coverage of King Charles III’s coronation. - Washington Post
