Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Three Seattle Arts Groups Are Coping Post-PPP Money
A lack of PPP funding has left a large hole in their revenue, but 2022 ticket sales or enrollment numbers generally still aren’t what...
Inflation, Changing Audience Behavior Are Muting A Broadway Rebound
Amid the spate of new shows, producers are facing higher costs due to inflation and extra understudies, as well as the added stressors of...
Man Repatriates Artifacts After Reading Newspaper Story
John Gomperts, who lives in Washington, realised that the ancient pieces worth up to £80,000 – including two seventh- and eighth-century BC Cypriot vases...
SFMoMA’s New Director Lays Out A New Direction For The Museum
Now after nearly six months in charge, Bedford is beginning to lay out his vision for SFMOMA and announcing his first initiatives as director....
Wow This Is Hard: How To Get Comfortable With Ambiguity
In this classical view of the world, all fundamental entities are either one or the other. To my undergraduate brain, this simply made sense....
An English National Ballet Dancer On The Clarifying Impacts Of The COVID Shutdowns
Prescious Adams credits the time spent training in lockdown with giving her technique more clarity – “I think of my body as this geometrical...
New York’s New Wage Transparency Law Exposes Art’s Low Wages
In some cases, the new law has served to expose just how meager some salaries in the cultural sectors remain. As museum workforces across...
Paul Allen Art Sale Exceeds $1.6 Billion
Spanning 500 years of art history, art from Allen's collection was offered on Wednesday and Thursday, with all proceeds going to philanthropic causes. Christie's...
The Complicated Seattle Arts Legacy Of Billionaire Paul Allen
When Allen was alive, critics categorized his funding, at times, as based on whims. Some local artists and nonprofits still have flashbacks from 2014,...
UK Culture Funding Cuts: Leveling Up? It Might Have The Opposite Result
New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak inherits the nation’s shrunken, crumbling pie, desperately searching for easy bits to scrape off. And the arts—international and outward-looking,...
Why You Should Write A Really Bad Novel
I don’t think you should write 50,000 words in a month in hopes that you will get discovered and Penguin Random House will buy...
Vandals Who Spraypainted Graffiti On Ancient Nevada Petroglyphs Sentenced To Prison
“No restitution or repair can undo the damage done by those who would vandalize such a sacred and historical site as White River Narrows,...
Wagner’s “Ring”… As Chamber Music
"As the director of the relatively small-scale Regents Opera, I am acutely aware of the risk attached to any attempt on Wagner’s epic saga. Yet,...
Research: How Technology Is Changing The Ways We Work
A growing body of research has begun to explore the nuanced ways in which technology is influencing the workplace and the workforce, shedding light on...
How The Decline Of Rome Has Fueled a Mytholgy Of Decline
Concentration on the rhetoric of decline and renewal combines various kinds of phenomena: political leaders who genuinely believe in decline and those who cynically...
The Ancients Had Stonehenge. Now We Have… Plastic Stonehenge?
Designed by London architecture firm Vatraa, the “monument” was modeled after the Great Trilithon of Stonehenge, but instead of using stones, the architects wrapped three giant piles...
Film Production Soars To Record In Australia
Spend on Australian features reached a record A$786M ($508M) during the period, an increase of 59% on the previous year, even though the overall...
Why Artifacts Returned To Their Home Countries Shouldn’t End Up In Museums
Involving communities in the way artefacts are used and displayed is a longstanding issue for African museums, even for objects that were never taken...
Why The UK’s New Arts Funding Policy Works Against Culture
Viewing the process as a zero-sum game pits different parts of the country against one another. This approach also glosses over the underlying politics...
What The Famed Suzuki Method Really Taught
The Suzuki story turns out to be a fascinating study in the hybrid nature of human culture, tracing a remarkable cross-century triple play—European music...
Moderation And Censorship Are Not The Same
A minimum viable product for moderation without censorship is for a platform to do exactly the same thing they’re doing now - remove all...
English National Opera Chief “Shocked” By 100 Percent Funding Cut And Suggestion To Leave...
The chief executive said the organisation was "completely shocked" by its 100% cut, announced last week as part of the latest round of ACE funding and said he...
Five Years After #MeToo, What’s Changed (And Hasn’t) For Female Artists
A recent survey by the British artist and curator Helen Gorrill, of the prices of 5,000 paintings sold at auction globally, found that for...
Judge Puts The Kibosh On Random House Acquisition Of Simon and Schuster (Not Even...
“The government has presented a compelling case that predicts substantial harm to competition as a result of the proposed merger of PRH and S&S,” Judge Florence...
Growing Concerns About The Environmental Impact Of New Zealand’s Movie Business
“If people knew how destructive the whole business is, they would think twice.” - The Guardian