Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News
When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84...
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over “Black Widow”
Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the simultaneous digital rollout of “Black Widow,” saying it breaches her contract with the company to release the...
…As The Dance World Returns Without Me…
"These days, dance brings me a deep pain and pronounced lack of joy that I never fathomed it could. The excitement with which I...
Survey Of LA Artists Documents Instability
The results of the survey are a snapshot of the art community’s struggle for financial stability even before COVID-19 shut down galleries and museums...
Netflix CEO: The Movie Business Is In Revolution
In four short years, Netflix has done more to reshape the way that movies are made, distributed and consumed than perhaps any other single...
Epic Labor Battle At Sydney Bookstore
Such disputes reflect a growing recognition across the publishing industry that the prestige and attractiveness of working in and adjacent to creative and cultural...
Enough With The Era Of Visionary Museum Directors
That era should be over. The director’s job is to set clear priorities for staff, to mentor, coach, and be clear-sighted about what is...
Lessons From Shared Crises: Community Connection Matters
As the Blitz and other collective crises have taught us, resilience is not a given and has to be managed with an understanding of...
Report: Worldwide Building Of Arts Facilities Was $5.9 Billion Last Year
Despite last year’s dip, there’s reason to think that the cultural sector is coming back strong. Even amid global uncertainty about travel, cities doubled...
Design Museum Gets Its 11th Director Since 2013
Some employees said that a carousel of different directors bringing new approaches has exhausted staff, strained relationships with some artists and damaged trust in...
Why Critics’ Opinions Matter
"I’ll claim that my response to art is more complex than the average museumgoer’s because it’s my professional responsibility—and passion—to be as well informed...
Spotify Now Has 165 Million Subscribers – More Than Apple And Amazon Combined
As for the rest of Spotify’s Q2 2021, the company reported 365 million monthly active users—a growth of 22% YOY. Total revenue was €2.33...
Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre — Under A Microscope
"I hope that the theatre generally, will be open to the idea that when you limit yourself to doing only primarily white theatre for...
Choreographer Drew McOnie On What Success Looks Like
"Success isn’t how many awards you win, or how many five-star reviews you get. Success is built on how quickly you bounce back, how...
Simon Rattle: We’ve Lost Many Musicians in the Pandemic
“Many of the first-choice people said, ‘Look I’m sorry, I’m not doing this any more. I have a family. I had to take another...
We Need New Thinking About Looted Art
‘Looted’ is a contested term: it covers a spectrum from out-and-out pillage to ostensibly legal transfers of title that may have occurred under coercion...
NPR Revenue Only Declined Two Percent Last Year
The public radio network’s operating revenue slid just two percent in 2020 to $270.1 million. And last year’s revenue was actually up seven percent...
Why English Is Such A Chaotic Collection Of Letters And Pronunciations
From the early Middle Ages, various European languages adopted and adapted the Latin alphabet. So why did English end up with a far more...
Theatre Critic Assumes Fellow Critic Is White, Then Has To Reassess When She Discovers...
I felt ashamed of my mistake, for not seeing a colleague for who he really is. “How limited your perception is, Lily!” I thought....
Barry Diller: Only Ten Percent Of Movie Theatres Will Survive
“Because of streaming, because of the pandemic, because of the enormous production of longform content … the word movies — what we think of...
Our Habits Aren’t Just Mindless — They Actually Help Make Us Smarter
Even our most mundane habitual routines actually display a great deal of intelligence. Indeed, they are often intelligently context-sensitive and flexible in such a...
ABT Executive Director Says She Will Depart To Work On Social Impact Fund
Kara Medoff Barnett will be leaving to lead social impact marketing and strategy at First Republic Bank and develop the recently established First Republic Foundation. -...
The Difference Between Music Education and Not
"I felt so small. A half Navajo and half Apache girl writing 'fancy' music for a quartet — something I had never dreamed of...
YouTuber Deepfakes Mandalorian So Well That LucasFilm Hires Him
One of those fans did so well, Lucasfilm has hired him to help it ensure its upcoming projects won't feature underwhelming de-aging and facial visual effects....
Documentary: What Made Alvin Ailey Ailey
The Ailey company has performed on six continents for millions of people. His 1960 ballet “Revelations" is considered a cultural treasure. - Washington Post
