Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Stratford Festival seeks their next Artistic Director
“Stratford is by every measure – budget, employment, attendance, production – the largest repertory theater in North America, and likely the largest nonprofit theater, period.”
Executive Director – Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Kansas City Repertory Theatre (KCRep) is excited to welcome an innovative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial minded professional to serve as the company’s next Executive Director.
Should We Be Worried About Who’s Remaking The Whitney Museum’s Old Building?
Breuer’s building, which has served as three museums, will lose some of its public presence no matter what, but New Yorkers still have an...
Threat To Our Future? An Empathy Gap
People find it easier to empathize with a single individual than with groups, plausibly because individuals are easier to conjure in one’s imagination. Therefore, the difference...
A New Golden Age For City Parks
This is a golden age for parks, with cities sprucing up waterfronts, transforming abandoned industrial sites and bringing some green space to neighborhoods where...
Today’s AJ Highlights
City Of Miami Beach Steps Up To Replace Arts Funding Canceled By Gov. DeSantis After Florida’s governor cut state arts funding, Miami Beach committed...
Dallas Art Museum Director To Step Down
Augustin Arteaga is set to leave the museum while it is undertaking an expansion—an unusual move, given that most directors of art institutions stay...
Charles Ives At 150 — For Those Who Care
Part of the neglect has to do with the fact that craggy patriarchs are no longer in fashion, particularly ones who were prone to...
We Have Become An Algorithmically-Driven Culture. And We’re Unhappier Than Ever
Since the nineteen-sixties, much of American public life has become automated, driven by computers and predictive algorithms that can do the political work of...
Why Humans Innately Distrust Other Forms Of Intelligence
Figuring out how to relate to minds of unconventional origin — not just AI and robotics but also cells, organs, hybrots, cyborgs and many...
Is A Four-Day Workweek Workable In The Arts?
Employers and employees experienced increases in motivation and overall productivity with no drop in revenue. Employees generally report less stress, burnout and work-family conflict....
The Downside Of Making Our Lives Convenient
Continually choosing the convenient path lessens your ability to deal with unavoidable difficulties. And, from an evolutionary perspective, some measure of discomfort is just as crucial...
How Switching Languages Changes Our Personalities
If you speak more than one language, ask yourself: in which language do you find it easier to say ‘I love you’? And in which one...
Orchestras’ Unseen Heroes: The Librarians
You “can’t do this job without being a trained musician." And just like any member of the orchestra, librarians get their jobs through competitive...
Herzog & de Meuron Will Remake Breuer Building For Sotheby’s
The renovated building will contain Sotheby’s sales room, as well as exhibition and dining spaces. Work is expected to be completed by fall 2025....
Today’s AJ Highlights
Good Morning: Here are some AJ highlights:
Quincy Jones, 91 Renowned for his profound influence on Black popular art and his ability to bridge...
Video Gamers Have Become Ukraine’s Deadliest Drone Pilots
The movie image of elite soldiers as macho hulks has fueled concerns that today’s flabby and screen-addicted youths couldn’t cut it in a real...
London Film Festival Reports Largest Audience In Ten Years
Figures published by the BFI said attendance across both free and paid-for in-person screenings and events at London venues increased by 92%, with 49% of tickets...
That Idea Chimps Could Randomly Type Shakespeare? Naaah!
The results indicated that even if every chimp in the world was enlisted and able to type at a pace of one key per...
Milwaukee Symphony Music Director To Step Down
Ken-David Masur's career highlights with the MSO include overseeing the introduction of more than 100 works to the orchestra — 33 of which are...
LA’s Vibrant Gallery Scene Seems To Be Collapsing. Why?
With alarming regularity, galleries all over Tinseltown have been closing, reducing their footprints, or decreasing their programming. “Hiatus” is a frequently heard word and...
Brexit Is Killing Britain’s Classical Music Industry
The prime minister is facing calls to urgently cut the red tape blocking travelling singers and bands from touring the continent, with campaigners attacking the government...
A Surprising Number Of Conductors’ Children Are Becoming Maestros Themselves
What we are seeing here is not a conspiracy of podium nepotism but a diverse and largely hidden transmission of a musical function by...
David Salle Amplifies His Work With AI
If the alpine backdrops and empty suits of “New Pastorals” seem skewed, vaguer and flatter even than the oblique combinations Salle usually stitches together,...
Quincy Jones, 91
Beyond his hands-on work with score paper, he organized, charmed, persuaded, hired and validated. Starting in the late 1950s, he took social and professional...