Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Survey: What Artists American Museums Show
Nearly half of all art exhibitions showcased by U.S. museums between 2017 and 2021 were dedicated to less than five percent of a quarter...
What Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Arts Presenters Learned During COVID
Another thing that’s changed “is it turns out we like our neighbors. And there are plenty of communities that are under-represented in our spaces,...
The Value Of “Anchor” Artists
We discovered that at the center of the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area is the anchor artist: someone central to their community...
Can Algorithms Be Protected Speech?
Recommendation systems pose difficult questions about what it means to speak, and whether speaking is something that only a person does. How do we...
The Internet As Endless Doom Scroll
It might seem the other way around: that our fleeting attention is the result of an internet that’s unrelentingly feeding us the now. But my...
Stalin – Man Of Ideas
Stalin was a man of ideas, to the point where he thought that by changing the ideas to which people are exposed he could...
The Scoop On This Sunday’s Tonys
There are around 831 eligible voters—and still ballots to be completed and votes totted up. The Daily Beast spoke to three voters anonymously about...
Can Murano’s Struggling Glass Factories Be Saved By Design?
Reversing Murano’s fate would be a monumental task, especially at this pivotal moment when soaring gas prices, caused by the war in Ukraine, have...
A New Way To Pick New Books?
How to reproduce online the serendipity of walking into a bookstore and discovering new books and authors. A new app, Tertulia, launched this week, is...
Is There A Job Vacancy Crisis In The Arts?
The job vacancy rate has been particularly high since April of 2021, when the sector experienced a record monthly vacancy rate of 8.8%. That...
The Evolving Meaning Of Meta
To be meta was to flex your self-awareness for social currency, to demonstrate proficiency in the language of smirky dissociative irony that was the...
Still Grappling With The Point Of Book Reviews
If, in fact, book reviews are on the whole too positive, as some suggest, does this mean that the purpose of book reviewing is...
Australia’s National Gallery Faces $67 Million Hole
The National Gallery of Australia needs to urgently find more than $67 million to protect its $6.1 billion art collection with a backlog of...
Ira Glass Worries That We’re Losing The War Against Disinformation
The US – like many other Western nations – has gone from a place “where it seemed like some sort of consensus was possible”, to a new...
Zoned For Dance: NYC Mayor Says Dancing Will Help City’s Recovery
Although the city had repealed its Cabaret Law, a 1926 regulation that made it illegal to host dancing, singing or musical entertainment without a license,...
How Our Bodies Protect Our Brains
No longer do scientists consider the brain to be a special, sealed-off zone. “This whole idea of immune privilege is quite outdated now. -...
Lviv Is An Architecturally Gracious European City. How Do You Add A Million Refugees
Amid war with Russia, the city’s challenge is to integrate tens of thousands of residents displaced from fighting in eastern Ukraine without sacrificing Lviv’s...
Famous AP War Photographer Writes About The Power Of One Photo To Change The...
If a single photo can make a difference, maybe even help end a war, then the work that we do is as vital now...
Grease: The Musical That Almost Didn’t Make It. Fifty Years Later
It would go on to transfer to Broadway for a then-record eight-year run, spawning several touring companies and a celebrated film. Not many know...
Baltimore Museum Of Art Director Makes Ready To Depart For SFMoMA
Later this summer, Bedford begins his new gig leading the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which has a budget that’s roughly three times...
Why Diversity On Canadian TV Is Superficial
“I don’t think anyone has any idea of the cultural impact that small data set is having on the country as a whole,” says...
Dancing The CanCan At Le Moulin Rouge
What many of the 600,000 patrons who annually pass beneath its iconic red windmill entrance probably don’t know is that the Moulin Rouge is...
Ukrainians Are Using Their Smartphones To Help Defend Their Country. Are They Still Civilians?
Technically speaking, as soon as a user in a war zone picks up a smartphone to assist the army, both the technology and the...
Could Software Flag Students At Risk Of Doing Harm? Early Tests Suggest Maybe Not
What they claim to do is to scan billions of social media posts with really sophisticated AI to identify threats of potential violence or...
Survey: Nearly Two-thirds Of College Students Are Afraid To Freely Speak Out On Campus
The percentage of college students who believe the political and social climate on their campus prevents people from freely expressing themselves rose from 54.7 percent...