Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Anonymous Donor Gives Millions To Milwaukee Museum To Make Admission Free To Kids
The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment that will fund the admission waiver in perpetuity. The gift went into effect the...
How Our Weird Obsession With Youth And Beauty Blinds Us To Real Meaning
With a crazed sense of humor and geysers of gore, these works demand recognition of simple and obvious facts: that looks aren’t everything and...
The Doctor Is In: What Is The Health Of That Painting?
Just as it is with a medical doctor, discretion is part of Suzanne Siano’s business model — she does not reveal to anyone what...
Tennessee Museum Asks Visitors To Sign Waiver Before Viewing Show Criticized By Republicans
“By suggesting that some works may be construed as hate speech and requiring visitors to sign a waiver, the sign not only misrepresents the...
Report: Workers In The Music Sector Will Lose One Quarter Of Their Incomes To...
The report concluded that while the AI boom will substantially enrich giant tech companies, creators’ rights and income streams will be drastically reduced unless policymakers...
Inside The Race To Rebuild Notre Dame
While the people of France supported the effort in the immediate aftermath—within days of the fire, there were donations of more than $900 million—the...
How Taylor Swift’s Tour Has Changed The Concert Business
Music executives say Swift has raised the bar for the concert industry, not just with ticket and merchandise sales, but conceptual ambition, stage production,...
Kennicott: What Should Be The Role Of Artists To Help Us Process The Upcoming...
To survive the next four years, to make sense of where all this could be going, we need to understand barbarism as a living,...
Of Ticket Prices And Low Funding Of UK Regional Theatre
According to UK Theatre, the majority of tickets sold in regional theatres cost under £35, with 99.9% priced below £100. Even in commercial venues,...
Companies Are Selling Fractional Shares Of Art As Investment. What’s The Point?
So far, Masterworks has been buying up works and selling shares in the asset, often with delayed payment terms, giving time for the Masterworks...
How Should Cities Decide What Buildings Should Be Protected?
There’s a loosely defined term of art for things that are prized and embedded in a culture but not necessarily architectural landmarks: intangible heritage. -...
British Film Censors Slap “Wicked” With A Trigger Warning Label
Regulators also cited a disabled woman in a wheelchair being “treated in a condescending manner by able-bodied people,” and talking animals being “persecuted in a fantastical...
100 Years Ago These Ukrainian Writers Were Famous, Then Crushed By Stalin. Now They’re...
The lives of the writers are being told in a musical, a feature movie and a memoir. There is even a fashion line themed around them, with sweatshirts riddled...
AI Publishing Could Swamp The Book Market
As AI-powered publishing balloons, the sheer market volume may make it difficult for these publishers to stand out. They’ll have to adapt. - Fast...
South Coast Repertory Theatre Co-Founder Martin Benson, 87
Benson’s path to success was fraught with challenges. Early in SCR’s history, Benson experienced literal starvation for his art, competing with seagulls for morsels...
Is Public Funding For The Arts Worth The Hassle?
One can carp about the sad history of direct public arts funding in the United States and many do. But one might also argue...
Why Tate Modern Is On The Decline
Tate faces some serious decisions; unless the new government swoops in with increased funding, or visitors magically reappear, Tate will have to decide what...
Welsh Arts Are Disappearing In Front Of Us
Any visiting alien would be confronted with the near collapse of a string of national institutions, including the National Theatre Wales, Welsh National Opera...
Why Snark Has Replaced Healthy Humor
Today that anger has festered to the point that we are losing sight of the real enemies of human vitality and imagination. Instead of...
Study: Vinyl Records Are Far Outselling CDs
Data indicate "that in the US alone, vinyl sales are projected to bring in a staggering $1 billion for record labels in 2024. This...
A Way Forward For Arts And Culture In The New Congress?
Even in Washington, DC, where the House and the Senate still come together in their steadfast support of the arts through their Subcommittees on...
Existential: Orchestras Need To Reinvigorate The Symphony
Concert halls need to commission young symphonists in the way that enterprising opera houses are engaging with new writers. The symphony may be dead,...
Improbable: Music Copyright Value Worldwide Now Greater Than Movie Copyright
The value of global music copyright soared to a record high last year, and has overtaken the value of the cinema box office for...
Accelerating Trend? Another Music Festival Cancels
In 2022, Bésame Mucho’s first Los Angeles festival sold out within 12 minutes. Noting the festival’s cross-generational appeal, NBC declared that Bésame Mucho “created a cultural moment.”...
Study: ChatGPT Publisher Citations Are Often Inaccurate
“In total, ChatGPT returned partially or entirely incorrect responses on 153 occasions, though it only acknowledged an inability to accurately respond to a query...