Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A Year Ago The Bellevue Arts Museum Closed. Are Its Days As A Museum...
Court documents and records obtained through public records, as well as reporting and interviews, shed more light on what could be next for the...
Big Dance Grant Program Ends. Now What?
Earlier this year, the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), which administers the grant, announced that a lead funder, the Mellon Foundation, would...
Latest Banksy Mural Will Be Removed From London Courts Building
"The Royal Courts of Justice is a listed building and HMCTS are obliged to maintain its original character," it said in a statement. Listed...
How Film Festivals Are Thinking About AI
A key aspect of what’s being negotiated across culture industries is how the public, fans, media commentators and creative professionals understand responsible AI creation and how...
So What If Media Companies Aren’t Interested In Culture Criticism Anymore?
Part of the problem is that reviews now float amid millions of other pieces of similar content on the web instead of being part...
What Really Do Cuts To Public Radio Mean?
A crucial development often left out of this conversation is how “journalism” itself has changed. Increasingly, local news is citizen-driven, curated, and disseminated through...
Is AI The End Of Movie Creativity?
“You could imagine a world where a movie would come out on a Friday, with alongside it, day-and-date,” the CEO said. By Sunday...
White House Review Of Smithsonian Could Impact History Studies Nationwide
Far beyond museums in Washington, President Donald Trump's review at the Smithsonian could influence how history is taught in classrooms around the country. The...
AI Companies Have Been Training On YouTube Data, Potentially Putting Creators Out Of Business
Over the past few months, I’ve discovered more than 15.8 million videos from more than 2 million channels that tech companies have, without permission,...
For The First Time, Scientists Have Recorded A Human Brain Making Decisions
Thanks to the image obtained, the researchers were able to confirm an already theorized architecture of thought: that there is no single region exclusively...
Canada’s First Nations Revitalize Festivals That Were Once Forbidden
Confronting the historic trauma of forced assimilation, a wave of artists are rejuvenating hyper-diverse Indigenous cultures in the kinds of festivals that were once...
Report: Christie’s Closes Its Digital Art Department
The NFT market has crashed and never recovered. In 2022, Christie’s reported $5.9 million in NFT sales, a 96 percent decline from 2021. And in August 2024, one...
The Classic Novels That Were First Rejected By Publishers
Six of the greatest works of modern literature were repeatedly and humiliatingly rejected by publishers and their distinguished advisors, who were blind to their...
Why Musicians Are Leaving Spotify
"The sound quality is horrible. The disposable-ness of music has become almost culturally endemic, and then obviously the financial aspect of it is a...
Data: How US Arts Are Doing
Both revenue and expenses declined in 2024, with average revenue hovering slightly above expenses. Average total revenue fell 25% while expenses decreased by 23%, leaving organizations with an increasingly smaller...
Is Writing Really Thinking?
Strangely, it means you’re not thinking when you’re reading. Does anyone believe that? - 3 Quarks Daily
The Essential Dohnanyi Recordings
Crucial to Dohnanyi’s conducting was his belief that musicians had to perform older music in a contemporary way. “I’m not interested in the Brahms...
Police Consider Charging Banksy Over Latest Mural
On Tuesday, however, the Metropolitan Police confirmed they are treating the mural as potential “criminal damage.” Should charges follow, the famously anonymous artist could...
Massive Leak Shows China Is Exporting Its Surveillance/Censorship Firewall Technology Around the World
Researchers found that it has been operating a sophisticated system that allows users to monitor online information, block certain websites and VPN tools, and...
West Point Alumni Group Cancels Award To Tom Hanks Because… You Know…
Hanks, 69, was to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award, which recognizes an “outstanding citizen” who did not attend West Point and has a...
Critiquing Donald Trump’s Architectural Aesthetic
In the end, matters of “style” are not matters of “taste,” in some shrugging, subjective sense. They are matters of value. Classical minimalism, meant...
How To Break Free Of Your Digital Prison? Try A Little Boredom
What digital platforms take away is more than just our attention being “continuously partial” — they also limit the deeper kind of reflection that...
Why Did Public Trust In Universities Decline?
It is rooted in the widespread perception that they have become ideological monoliths, barely tolerating the expression of any conservative opinions on campus. It...
What Are Intellectuals To Do In A Time Of Fascism?
For the last couple of decades, we’ve seen a growing assault on critical inquiry, academic freedom, and safety, alongside the casualization of labor, rising...
Might These Ideas Save Classical Music Institutions?
Might London’s most civilised music venue have the answers that classical music needs if it is to claim the audience that is undoubtedly there,...
