Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Is This Why English Departments Are Dying?
By claiming literary fiction to be trope-free, we can pretend that literary fiction is not a genre in its own right. If we admit...
Just What Was Behind The 1990s’ Thomas Kinkade Craze?
In the 1990s, Kinkade estimated that one in twenty American homes owned a piece of his art, and reports suggest that his company boasted...
The Studio That’s Making A Name For Itself With AI-created Projects
The studio is now among the most popular A.I.-powered artists on the internet for its roster of subversive videos released on YouTube and then...
ABT Dancer Gillian Murphy Steps Down After 29 Years
Murphy joined Ballet Theater as a teenager in 1996 with technique that was glitteringly strong from the start and a clear joy for the...
Why Did This Film Studio Buy An Off-Broadway Theatre?
The company says it plans a wide-ranging slate of programming, prioritizing theater — Cherry Lane describes itself as the birthplace of the Off Broadway...
What AI Is Doing To My Creative Writing Students
As a teacher of creative writing, I set out to understand what A.I. could do for students, but also what it might mean for...
Five Essential Roger Norrington Recordings
On one side were those who admired his indefatigable research into 18th- and 19th-century performance practice, and the ways in which he deployed the...
Conductor Roger Norrington, 91
His mission wasn’t only to make us hear the repertoire we thought it knew through the prism of the techniques and playing styles of...
Seattle’s KUOW Will Lose $1M In Funding Congress Just Axed. In A Fundraiser, Listeners...
Money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accounts for about 5% of KUOW’s revenue — $1 million — and funds infrastructure like satellite interconnection and emergency...
How YouTube Became The King Of All TV
People now watch YouTube on TV sets more than on their phones or any other device—an average of more than one billion hours each...
The Power Of Gossip And Spiritual Ease
I was able to differentiate between types of gossip through this association: the kind that aims to bring a rival low, that tries to...
Just Whom Is Spotify’s New Time-Limited Audiobook Subscription For? Not Enough Time For The...
The 30-hour limit won’t get you through titles like George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones or Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings, for example. You...
Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Grant Applications After NEA Anti-DEI Rules
The Yale Art Gallery, the renowned university museum in New Haven, Connecticut, has withdrawn two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition after rejecting...
How Trump Managed To Kill Bipartisaan Support For Public Broadcasting
Trump had campaigned on retribution and made the news media a core element of his grievance. Public broadcasting has offered a ready target, given...
How Trump’s Attacks On Journalists Are Weakening The First Amendment
They show Trump has found tactical ways to prevail in his nonstop battle to discredit outlets that report critically on him and his activities....
Fantastical Set Designer John Conklin, 88
The term “prodigy” rarely applies to set designers, but Mr. Conklin’s instincts were on full display in his youth. Growing up in Hartford, Conn.,...
“Citizen Kane”‘s Rosebud Sleigh Sells For $14.75M
Film director Joe Dante had owned the piece since 1984, when a person was clearing out a section of the Paramount Pictures film lot that had...
The Art Of Extra-ing
In gaps between jobs, an assortment of artists, coders and labourers played policemen, caterers and journalists. As one of the extras playing a journalist,...
Cancelling Colbert: The Ideological Purge Comes To Late Night TV
CBS knows what all this looks like. They’re trying very hard to address the optics. - Washington Post
Why Liberal Arts Education Is Really In Decline At American Universities
The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in...
The School Teacher Who Was Selling “Creepy” Art Made By His Students
The page was entitled “Creepy Portrait Art,” and the pictures were, as promised, incredibly creepy. Dozens of student portraits, mostly in crayon, depicted a...
Editors Used To be The Gatekeepers. Now That They’re Largely Gone, Should We Bring...
We still live in the world Condé Nast and its intimidating editors created. We just don’t know how to make sense of it, because...
Folk Rock Band Hits Big On The Music Charts. Trouble Is, The Band Is...
As the project rises on global charts and dominates Viral 50 playlists, artists and industry professionals are asking urgent questions about authenticity, consent and...
How Misinformation Infects A Community
Social connections establish pathways of influence that can facilitate the spread of germs, mental illness and even behaviors. We can be profoundly influenced by...
Republicans Propose Big Cuts To NEA, NEH, Kennedy Center Budgets
House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee recommended 35 percent cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...
