Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Every Arts Director At The NEA Resigns
All 10 directors who oversee grants in various disciplines of the arts — such as museums, theater, design, and folk and traditional arts —...
Up Next: Taxing Endowments?
In recent years, the idea has made the leap to the MAGA right. Along the way, it has become something very different: not a...
Public Media Gears Up To Fight Elimination Of Federal Funding
It’s an attack on the free press, and the very idea of an American public sphere: where information and ideas flow freely, everyone has...
Immersive Dance That Brings It To The Audience
Dances that put artists and audience members in close proximity—whether they’re immersive, invite (or demand) audience participation, or have moments where the fourth wall...
An Opera Production In South Dakota That Shows What Opera In A Community Can...
The most enthusiasm was reserved for Delta David Gier, who was closing out the South Dakota Symphony’s season with one of the ensemble’s great...
Soprano Picked To Lead Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Patricia Racette, who made her debut at the Met in 1995, is known for her portrayals of Puccini heroines. She has also ventured into...
Our Depopulation Crisis
Fewer working-age adults entails a shrinking tax base, even as the need for public services swells. Education, healthcare, infrastructure, public safety and welfare will...
How Do You Tariff Foreign Films? Here’s A Better Way To Help The Movie...
While tariffs are unlikely to have the effect Trump claims he wants, a federal tax credit program for filmmakers—something California politicians spent years advocating...
Trump’s Kennedy Center CEO Attacks Lin-Manuel Miranda And “America’s Got Talent”
Ric Grenell complained after Monday’s episode revealed that Miranda, who has declined to perform at the venue after its Trump-led makeover, will be mentoring contestants in...
The Uncertain Future Of One Of The Smithsonian’s Most Popular Museums
Now it is in the cross-hairs of President Trump, who issued an executive order in March that seeks to address what he described as the Smithsonian’s...
How LACMA’s New Building Will Change The Art Inside
The discussion offered a glimpse into the animated debate that the museum’s 45 curators have been engaged in over the last five years, reimagining...
How Spotify Came To Own The Music
If you spend enough time on Spotify, it’s easy to sense, inchoately, that the platform is taking advantage of everyone involved. - The Nation
How JMW Turner Became The Painter We Know
A fellow painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, thought that “Turner’s pictures always look as if painted by a man who was born without hands” who...
Is The Future of Theatre Immersive?
"I think it's an empowering situation when participants are able to not just immersive themselves in a world but actually affect that world and,...
Trump Versus The Arts World
Trump has depicted the Kennedy Center as a crumbling building that he will return to its former glory. Never mind that he has offered...
France And EU Establish Enormous New Fund To Attract American Researchers
“The role of science in today’s world is questioned. The investment in fundamental, free and open research is questioned. What a gigantic miscalculation,” von...
Beloved Indie Florida Bookstore At Center Of Censorship Fight
Management began reviewing all store materials after receiving a complaint from a customer against profanity on a greeting card. What began as a purge...
Why Do So Many Artists Come From Broken Homes?
Paradoxical though it may seem, studies have found that many creative people had difficult childhoods. Indeed, many well-known artists owe their genius to tough childhood events, from...
That Was Fast: US Copyright Office Has Granted Copyright To 1000 AI-Enhanced Works
"In the copyrightability analysis, distinguishing between using AI as a tool to assist in the creation of works and using AI to stand in...
Is This The Worst Decade For Popular Culture?
According to a recent YouGov poll, Americans rate the 2020s as the worst decade in a century for music, movies, fashion, TV, and sports. A...
What The National Parks Contribute
The National Park Service report, 2023 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, finds that 325.5 million visitors spent $26.4 billion in communities near national parks....
Is The Late Night Talk Show Dead? Or Can It Be Reinvented?
Can the traditional talk show format — with an opening monologue, celebrity guests, live musical performances, a sidekick — survive in the streaming era?...
Shares In Movie Producers, Streamers, Decline Monday After Trump Tariff Threat
At the open of the U.S. stock market regular trading Monday, Netflix’s stock was down -3.3%, Disney was -2.4%, WBD was -4.2% and Paramount...
Trump Movie Tariff Would Kill Independent Film
“It’s insane,” a veteran UK producer told us. “So U.S. companies can only make U.S. films? James Cameron can’t make Avatar overseas? Who pays...
Trump 100% Movie Tariff Would Kill Canadian Film Production
Vancouver is the third largest film and television production hub in North America after Los Angeles and New York. There were 26,000 persons employed...
