Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Image Of Maya Angelou To Be Featured On US Quarter
The quarter features an image of Angelou with her arms uplifted, a bird in flight and a rising sun behind her, with a portrait...
Eighty Factcheck Groups Worldwide Protest YouTube Policies
The letter lists worldwide examples which have the potential to cause real-life harm, which went under the radar of YouTube's content policies. It says...
Gideon Arthurs Chosen As New Director Of Soulpepper Theatre
Arthurs joins Soulpepper after eight years as the chief executive officer of the National Theatre School of Canada. - Toronto Star
Inside The Healing Art Of Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is premised on the idea that books can be healing tools. The main distinction is between clinical bibliotherapy, where texts, including fiction and...
Do Our Digital Lives Need An Intervention?
It’s clear that the internet needs design innovations—and brake mechanisms—to reduce its noxious impact. Our suffering arises, in part, from the speed and volume of...
NPR Responds To Loss Of Hosts
NPR's senior vice president for news, Nancy Barnes, wrote in a letter to staff on Tuesday that, taken together, the resignations have "created a...
LA’s Bold New Event Space Is… Well, I Need A New Word For It
The history and location are why I wanted to love — love — the new Audrey Irmas Pavilion (which bears the name of the patron who...
The Screen Actors Guild Nominations Are Out. Here’s What They Portend For Oscars
OK, let’s just says awards season actually starts now. The SAG Awards nominations, voted on by two panels of 2,500 randomly selected SAG-AFTRA members...
For The First Time In Three Years, The Oscars Will Again Have A Host
Names like Dwayne Johnson believed to be among those on their wish list. Popular former hosts such as Chris Rock also have been approached...
Global Disarray Is Growing. Do We Have The Creativity To Stop It?
The gap between global challenges and responses is large and growing. And the resources needed to turn things around – especially collective will and skillful...
Art As Transporting Experience? Sure — But Where To?
The idea of artworks as portals to other worlds dates back several centuries, and it has become a commonplace way of talking about our...
Met Museum, Having Difficulty Finding Guards To Staff Galleries, Increases Pay
Until last month, guards starting at the Met had been paid $15.51 an hour, just above the $15 minimum wage for fast food workers...
San Francisco Ballet Looks To Europe For Its New Artistic Director
Tamara Rojo will be the first woman and only the fifth director to lead the troupe, the oldest professional ballet company in the United...
Why Thomas Dausgaard Abruptly Quit The Seattle Symphony?
Dausgaard, 58, had seemed a good fit for his position, which he had held just since fall 2019. But he was separated from the...
A History Of Tackiness
Tackiness, it would seem, has always been in the eye of the beholder—a disapproving audience, real or imagined, clicking their proverbial tongues. They usually...
Slippery Slope? Artists Are Boycotting This Year’s Sydney Festival Over Its Funders
If an arts organisation accepts money from a donor, there is always a price to pay. It’s a question of how high the price...
How A Major Gift Turned Into A Shiny New Gallery For Indigenous Art In...
Against the promise of his holdings of Aboriginal art, Gantner urged Shepparton to build a standalone gallery and for it to become a not-for-profit...
Australian Arts Facing Labor Shortages
There is growing evidence of worker shortages for live shows. It’s clear there is a gap left by workers who left the arts during 2020/2021 lockdowns, resulting in a reduced pool of staff to call on when...
Of Norman Mailer And Cancel Culture
A culturally and politically monotone graduate class, on board with just about every woke nostrum going, not only dominates publishing houses’ workforce – it...
Why I Quit Being A Classical Musician
"I’ve been working to know myself apart from my identity as a musician, which I always held in higher regard than my inherent worth...
Are NFTs Facilitating Theft Of Artists’ Work?
As the NFT art market takes off, systems to ensure a buyer is making a legitimate purchase of digital ownership have failed to keep...
American Shakespeare Center Names A New Director
Brandon Carter, a resident actor with ASC since 2018, assumes the directorship in a new management structure that the company describes as “a coequal...
It’s Hollywood Awards Season. But It’s Awfully Quiet…
The AFI Awards were postponed. The Critics’ Choice Awards — scheduled to be televised Sunday night in hopes of filling the void left by...
Fascinating: Have We Got So Much Data That We’re Entering Into A Post-Hypothesis Era...
The complexity that this wealth of data has revealed to us cannot be captured by theory as traditionally understood. “We have leapfrogged over our...
This Year’s Golden Globes Event Was an Embarrassing Mess
Given the award show’s banishment from longtime home NBC and its failure to secure a new broadcaster, this year’s Globes were tweeted out from...