Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Gallery Powerhouse Blum Will Lay Off Staff And Close, Citing Market Downturn
Founded as Blum and Poe in 1994 in Santa Monica, Calif., by Tim Blum and Jeff Poe, the gallery represents some of the most...
Warner Creates $1+ Billion Fund To Buy Rights To Music Catalogs
Warner Music Group and private investment giant Bain Capital are launching a $1.2 billion joint venture to acquire “legendary” music catalogs across both recorded music...
How Sondheim’s Collection Came To The Library Of Congress
The Library announced this week that it has acquired more than 5,000 items from Sondheim's collection, which will be available to the public on...
Cultural Vandalism: Alberta’s Book-Banning Project
“This isn’t about banning books,” Premier Danielle Smith posted on X. “It’s about protecting kids from graphic, sexually explicit content that has no place...
Canada Debates What Qualifies As Canadian Culture
The outcome will shape who gets to tell Canadian stories and what those stories are, and also which ones count as Canadian under the...
New Project Reveals 700 Years Of Irish History
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, a global academic collaboration led by Trinity College Dublin, deployed historians, computer scientists and other specialists to digitally recreate...
Hollywood Takes On AI Copyright Rules In Washington
America’s creators are mounting a campaign to push back on any use of their work without permission or compensation, seeking to head off potential abuses of...
Director of São Paulo’s Museu Afro Brasil Out After Less Than Two Years
Hélio Menezes is no longer the director of the Museu Afro Brasil, a key São Paulo institution founded by sculptor Emanoel Araújo that is known for...
Warner Music Announces Layoffs, Cuts
In the memo, reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter, Kyncl wrote that WMG is looking to reduce costs by about $300 million to “future-proof” the company...
Florida Governor Cuts Funding For Public Radio, TV
Gov. Ron DeSantis cut nearly $6 million in recurring funding to the state’s public radio and TV stations, one day before the state’s 2025...
Study: What Makes A Person “Cool”?
A new study suggests that there are six specific traits that these people tend to have in common: Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted,...
A New Ballet Company For Venice, A City With A Glittering Dance History
A successful Irish barrister with a long dedication to the arts, she and co-founder and artistic director Alessio Carbone are on an ambitious mission...
Brooklyn Museum Cancels Layoffs After City Comes Through With More Money
Facing a growing deficit, the Brooklyn Museum announced its intent to cut around 47 full- and part-time workers — more than 10% of its staff —...
Inside Egypt’s New Grand Museum (The Opening Is Still In Question)
The museum, which allegedly cost $1 billion dollars, funded largely through Japanese loans and contributions from the Egyptian government, was first proposed by Hosni...
The Most Comprehensive Tour Of The Smithsonian Ever?
For many residents, visiting every local Smithsonian museum is a bucket list item. Kathryn Jones’s journey takes that challenge to the extreme. The 33-year-old...
The Louvre Launches A Design Competition To Expand The Museum
The winner of the international contest will be selected in October by a 21-person jury of experts from around the world and announced early...
International Support Grows For Returning Parthenon Marbles
There is a growing international momentum behind Greece’s campaign, as U.K. negotiations inch closer to a possible resolution and global public opinion continues to shift...
Julianne And Derek Hough’s New Kind Of Dance Competition
This fall, in partnership with the company DanceOne, they’re launching a dance tour called Ovation by DanceOne, which merges ballroom and commercial competition traditions into one...
Dissident Art: A Dancing Trump On The National Mall
On Thursday morning, a life-size, gold-painted television set appeared near Third Street NW, pointed squarely at the Capitol, the Washington Post reported. Its screen played a silent...
I Observe. Must I Translate?
Human beings with a lot to say like to make noise. So do crickets, dogs, mice, other insects, rabbits when frightened or being killed,...
Canada’s Official Archives Are In Peril
After Confederation, some of the country’s oldest records were stashed in a loft in the reading room of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill....
The Met Museum’s Difficult Line Through Its Re-thought African Collection
The wing’s design stresses each region’s singularity while fostering an atmosphere of cosmopolitan exchange. We’re meant to feel that the Met is no longer...
The Struggle For A “Self” We Recognize
We imagine our choices are free, our selves sovereign, but much of our behavior arises automatically. We are driven by inner conditions, social cues,...
We All Read. But Our Reading Has Changed. This Has Changed Our Culture (And...
On average, we spend more than two hours scrolling through such platforms each day. But not all reading is created equal. The mind can skim over...
What Toni Morrison Was Like As An Editor
Her unwavering commitment to shoring up the integrity of a book at every stage solidified her legacy as an editor who could turn talent,...
