Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
UK Threatens To Cut Funds For University-Level Arts Education By 50%
"Under proposals put forward earlier this year by Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, funding from the Office for Students — the independent regulator of...
New York Times Dance Critic On Writing About People’s Bodies
Gia Kourlas: "Generally, it doesn't feel fraught, but at the same time I am aware of the sensitivity it takes to write about the...
Meet The Detective Who’s Recovered Half A Billion Dollars’ Worth of Stolen Art
" Marinello is one of a handful of people who track down stolen masterpieces for a living. Operating in the grey area between wealthy...
W. Royal Stokes, Washington Post Jazz Critic, Dead At 90
"A onetime professor of classics who became a major presence in jazz as a Washington-based radio disc jockey, journalist and author known for his...
Britain’s Reopening, But A Quarter Of Its Summer Rock Festivals Are Cancelled. Why? Insurance.
"According to the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), which has been tracking festivals taking place in Britain this year, 26% of all festivals with...
How France Is Managing Reopening Of Arts Venues
Roselyne Bachelot, the culture minister, has outlined the planned stages of reopening and rules that will be in place beginning May 19: for instance,...
UK’s Cinema Chains Are Reopening, Despite Shortage Of New Films To Show
"The UK's biggest cinema chain, which is sweetening its £9.99 monthly all-you-watch subscription scheme to get punters back indoors as summer nears, will...
Plexiglass, Screens, Headphones — A Return to Theatre Spaces?
In these uncertain, transitional days, theater companies remain perplexed about how and when to open their doors, and so many potential ticket-buyers fret over...
How A John Denver Song Inspired A Generation Of Asian Immigrants
Over the past half century, Denver’s Appalachian anthem has also lodged in the hearts of many families in Asia, thousands of miles away from...
Carey Perloff Remembers Olympia Dukakis
She was an astonishing teacher, spending hours and hours in the classroom every time she came to ACT, and back home in New York,...
Alastair Macaulay Remembers Jacques d’Amboise
His charm was colossal and effortless, his love for many people effusive and happy. I keep coming across poems and messages he sent me....
How To Spend COVID Relief Money? Japanese Town Buys A Giant Squid Statue
It reportedly used 25m yen ($228,500; £164,700) of the emergency funding to build the statue. Noto officials have told local media it is part...
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...
