Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Novels Can Be Any Length. So Why Are They This Long?
"The novel is an extremely flexible form. It can come out in countless shapes, include infinite content, and end up almost any length. Let’s...
Backstage Union Warns That Met Opera Will Not Reopen In 2021
In a statement issued by its president, IATSE Local One stressed that the current situation is a lockout rather than a strike and that...
Redefining Monuments In Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Not granite or bronze, these new monuments by Deborah Willis, Sadie Barnette, Ebony G. Patterson, Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, and Black Quantum Futurism,...
Finally, A Decent App For Borrowing Ebooks From The Library
A clunky, outmoded piece of software called OverDrive had been the standard app for getting reading material from the library onto your Kindle. Instead...
Juilliard’s “Slavery Saturday”: A Teaching Moment?
"For nearly seven decades, Juilliard has been a byword of rigor in the performing arts, with world-class music and dance divisions. The drama division...
How The Sackler Family Got Its Own Art Storage Gallery At The Metropolitan Museum
" a 600-square-foot gallery-cum-warehouse that Arthur Sackler had commandeered as his personal storage facility, a deal he wrangled by dangling the possibility of eventually...
Verizon Sells The Internet Junkyard (AOL, Yahoo…)
The telecom giant is selling Yahoo, AOL and the remainder of its Verizon Media brands to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in...
How Four Regional Ballet Companies Are Moving Back Into In-Person Performance
"Pointe spoke to four U.S. ballet companies — Milwaukee Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Avant Chamber Ballet and Columbia City Ballet — about how...
Why We’re Attracted To Gross Things
In short, disgust may not derive from a simple aversion to harmful substances but from a tension between the desire to explore and consume...
NewsNation Is Supposed To Be An ‘Unbiased’ Alternative To Fox, MSNBC, And CNN. Almost...
Execs at Nexstar, the country's largest owner of local TV stations, had research saying that consumers wanted a source of nonpartisan news. So the...
Saudi Arabia’s $15 Billion Scheme To Create A Global Cultural Capital Almost From Scratch
The site for the project is AlUla, a historical site with ancient rock-hewn buildings similar to those in Petra, Jordan. The plan is for...
Classical Music Broadcaster Martin Bookspan, 94
"Known for his distinctive delivery during his 60-year broadcasting career, Bookspan served as a host and commentator for live broadcasts of the , Boston...
Steppenwolf Theater Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro Resigns
"The decision, one of many such wholesale changes as the Chicago theater slowly emerges from the COVID-19 crisis of closures, is not unexpected by...
Layoffs Hit US’s Largest Public Radio Station
New York Public Radio, which includes news-talk outlets WNYC AM and FM and classical station WQXR as well as a podcast production unit and...
ABT To Mark End Of Lockdown With Eight-City, 3,100-Mile Tour
"Performances during the tour will take place outdoors on a custom-built stage designed to unfold from an 18-wheeler truck. At each stop, 20...
Jacques d’Amboise, Ballet Dancer, Choreographer, And Teacher, Dead At 86
" combined classical elegance with all-American verve and athleticism to become one of the top male dancers at New York City Ballet, then spent...
Re-Entering Community Life In Person — But I Have Stage Fright
"In my official capacity as theater critic, I’m prepared to make a cultural diagnosis. As the pandemic shows signs of coming under control in...
NYC To Lift COVID Capacity Restrictions May 19. Broadway Back?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that one capacity restriction that will remain in place, with limits still being mandated on the number of people...
Eli Broad, Philanthropic Cautionary Tale
Broad’s style — his power plays, his demands for control and fealty, and his determination to go it alone — meant that controversy and...
Lynda Hartigan, Peabody Essex Museum’s Passed-Over Deputy Director, Belatedly Gets the Top Spot
Two years ago, when the Salem, Mass. museum named Brian Kennedy, then director of the Toledo Museum, to succeed longtime director Dan Monroe, I...
Charles Grode Shares the Impact of Collaboration
The President & Executive Director of the Merit School of Music shares about the importance and impact of collaboration between arts organizations. - Aaron...
Music Is The Universal Language? Let’s Reconsider
In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like a battle...
Beleaguered StubHub Ticket Service Will Now Offer Refunds For Canceled Events
Customers complained to the press and filed lawsuits. In an interview, StubHub customer experience vice president Daron Fowlks declined to comment on litigation but...
Book Publishing Is About Free Speech? Ideas? Well That Myth Is Gone
"There may be an ideological component to publishing Pence and Conway, but it has nothing to do with ideas. It has to do with...
Head Or Heart? How You Listen To Music
When you listen to music, do you tend to analyze and think critically about what you are hearing (head)? Or is music listening pretty...