Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
“Sustainability” Festival Canceled After Being Unmasked As Conspiracy Theories Event
The Think Local Festival, which promised attendees the chance to “discover the roots and taste of tradition,” was due to be held on Wednesday...
Master Of The Universe: An Epic NYer Profile Of Larry Gagosian
Traditionally, the model for dealers has been to bet on raw talents, and support these artists until work by some of them sells well...
Why Presidents In The Movies Always Look Young
On screen we want our romantic leads flawless, our sitcom families lower middle-class but quirky, and our presidents capable of single-handedly killing terrorists and...
Scientists Develop Whitest Paint Ever (It Can Cool Surfaces)
“We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s whitest paint. We wanted to help with climate change, and now it’s more of a crisis,...
How Writers For TV Became Just Another Cog In The Machine
Over time “you get this tiered work force of prestige workers and lesser workers” — fewer officers, more grunts. The writers’ experience shows how...
Dallas Arts Leaders Say They Need Significant Help From City, Not Just Token Support
Arts leaders say the city is treating the needs of cultural institutions like paper cuts, when the issues they’re facing are more like bleeding,...
Study: Turns Out There Are Effective Strategies To Counter Bullshit
Turns out, the interventions do help. Reminders to think about accuracy, tips on digital literacy, and effective crowd-sourced accuracy ratings improve the information hygiene...
Reinventing Hubbard Street Dance For The Next Generation
Audience numbers had dropped off well before the pandemic, leaving some in the administration to question if they could continue to support a home...
Hollywood CEOs Have Fallen For Tech’s “Magical Thinking”
It’s not, ultimately, technology that’s at the root of the problem. It’s that the studio executives both new and old have embraced the powerful...
A Vanishingly Small Number Of International Plays Are Produced In The US. Why?
Theatre scenes in scores of countries around the world are every bit as sophisticated as ours in the U.S. (and in many cases far...
Do Hollywood Studios Realize They Are Ultimately On The Same Side As The Unions?
"My experience working in Hollywood has led me to believe that if studios are smart, they will understand that their interests are aligned with...
Children’s TV Has Evolved Into Something Entirely Different
The YouTube era of children’s programming represents a marked shift in what and how young kids watch video. For decades, children’s television was appointment viewing...
London’s Royal Opera House Orchestra Votes To Authorize Strike
The members are asking for their salaries to return to pre-COVID level. According to reports, the Royal Opera House orchestra was asked to make...
Small Indie UK Presses Are Leading The Publishing Industry Right Now
The argument runs something like this: because commercial pressures at large houses encourage cautious commissioning, nimbler indies – operating with tighter margins – step...
BroadwayCon: The State of Diversity In Theatre
This year's conference explores diversity in its various forms... - The New York Times
Study: Why People Gaslight Others
Through a qualitative analysis of survey responses from 65 gaslighting victims (ages 18 to 69), Klein and his co-authors at the University of Toronto...
The Tide Turns – Criticism Pivots Away From Moralizing…
The rise of “postcritique” signals a similar pivot in some English departments, while in the broader culture the aftermath of the Trump years has...
Dancers’ Contracts Aren’t Year-Round. So How Do They Survive The Weeks They’re Not Paid?
Generally speaking, dancers are on break during the summer — but also at the end of December after “The Nutcracker” and during the first...
Theatre’s Fundraising Problem
The traditional fundraising-during-a-downturn playbook calls on organizations to lean on mega-donors when everyday givers step back and the broader pool shrinks. But this isn’t...
Hollywood Writers’ Not-So-Secret Weapon: Teamsters Boss Lindsay Dougherty
“I’m angry, you know? Building this bond with the writers over the last six months has been great, realizing that writers fight every day...
Another Theatre Closes After 31 Years
Altogether, the Metropolitan Theatre in New York brought to light and recognition over 100 largely forgotten American plays from 1787 through to the present,...
Why Mozart Still Resonates
"It is the embodiment of a set of feelings about the world that are so richly specified in each case as to amount to...
Hong Kong Tries To Ban A Song As “Dangerous”
Hong Kong officials seem to fear it can, as they are seeking an injunction against a protest anthem called “Glory to Hong Kong.” Officials have asked...
American Theatre Is Collapsing – It Needs A Bailout
So how do we avoid this catastrophe? Just as in other areas of recent American life where entire industries were imperiled — banks, the...
Seattle Theatre Is Broken. It Might Not Survive
What worries me more than money at the moment is the spiritual pall hanging over the theater community – a simmering angry paralysis mirroring...
