Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
University Of The Arts Unions File Labor Complaint
The complaint, filed with the National Labor Relations Board, alleges that the school declined to “furnish information” following attempts the negotiate severance pay and...
Eurovision Music During War Time
Eurovision, like the Olympics, touts itself as an apolitical event. Fans and jury members are asked to vote for the best song, not the...
Trove Of 16th-Century Murano Glass Found Off The Coast Of Bulgaria
It is speculated that the glass artifacts fell from the cargo of a ship battered by a storm in the shallow, rocky area of...
Steppenwolf Vet Laurie Metcalf Reflects On TV Versus Theatre
The need for stamina, combined with memorization and the commitment of a run. This run is short; I am used to being asked to...
Study: Why You’re More Likely To Believe Fake News From Acquaintances
So why do your weak links matter so much? One big reason is that they’re more likely than your closest friends to possess novel,...
Summer Theatre Festivals Are Facing Big Challenges
“All these challenges are an existential threat to summer theatre as we know it. I’m an optimistic person, but we are facing difficult headwinds. -...
Study: Job Prospects For Art History Graduates Stink
Art History majors face the worst employment prospects of any profession after graduating from college, a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has...
Bankers Suggest Warner/Discovery Should Be Broken Up
The “current composition as a consolidated public company is not working. At current levels, we argue that exploring strategic alternatives such as asset sales,...
Is Public Radio Shrinking? Layoffs Continue
Following NPR’s 10% staff cutback last year, 2024 has seen 25 workers pink-slipped at KQED, 15 at WAMU, 31 at Boston’s WGBH along with...
Hannah Arendt’s Case Against Authenticity
What does it mean to discover one’s true, authentic self? To act from a place of authenticity? Is there a truer self within the...
A Growing Threat To Good Science: Self-Censorship
In a recent paper published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cory Clark and 38 co-authors argue that, in science, censorship often flows...
Museums Are Hugely Popular. But Can They Survive?
Beyond particular items in its collections, is the universal museum itself a product of colonialism that expresses an implicit belief in the superiority of...
Artists Have Been Priced Out Of Seattle
In the survey, creatives of all stripes, success and income levels say that — faced with rising housing prices, inflation and a weakened local...
What Does It Look Like To Give Guaranteed Income To Artists?
It seems like such a basic thing: paying working artists a living wage. But it’s not something that most arts organizations, particularly smaller ones,...
Spanish Residents Protest Mass Tourism
Some popular locations are struggling with the crush of visitors. Tens of thousands of Spanish residents have taken to the streets in Málaga and the Canary...
The Decline Of HBO (Worst Emmys Outing Since 1996)
On Wednesday, HBO, as well as its accompanying streaming service Max, earned 91 Emmy nominations, down from its massive haul last year (127), and...
Taxonomy Is Our Superpower (And It’s In Dire Shape)
Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the foundation for conserving disappearing plants and animals. Yet the field — often viewed as...
New JFK Terminal Is Stuffed With Art
The $4.2 billion facility in Queens will showcase the largest number of works of any New York airport by major figures from the United...
Country Music Is Hot Again (And Fans Are In Charge)
Across the musical universe, country is cool again. This year, for the first time, the country festival Stagecoach sold out before its better-known mainstream...
“The Bear” Leads With Record Number Of Emmy Nominations
“The Bear,” about chefs under pressure at a Chicago restaurant, set a new record for nominations in a single year for a comedy. It has...
Australian Media Say Catastrophe If Meta Removes News Links From Facebook
Meta has threatened to remove all news from Facebook in Australia if it is “designated” under the world-first News Media Bargaining Code, which has the power...
Academic Publishing Is A Rip Off. We Need Reform
The annual revenues of the “big five” commercial publishers – Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE – are each in the...
Why Silicon Valley Is Exploring Guaranteed Income
It is a critical moment for guaranteed income, which has been touted by the OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk,...
Librarians Cull Books All The Time. How Do They Decide What Goes?
With public libraries mandated to support literacy, recreational reading, and free access to information, today’s librarians make decisions about removing books amid competing pressures...
How Lonnie Bunch Has Transformed The Smithsonian
Initiatives such as an ethical returns policy that restored twenty-nine looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria—shifting the global conversation around restitution—and a more recent effort, spurred...