Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Man Returns Piece Of The Acropolis Hist Father Took In 1930
Back in 1930, Gaetano visited Athens with the Italian Navy. And at the Acropolis—the Greek capital’s hilltop covered in ancient architecture—he picked up a...
In The Attention Economy, Our Inner Lives Are Shrinking
Roughly speaking, globalization flattens space and pares away cultural particularity; neoliberalism flattens value, reducing everything to its going rate on the market; the internet,...
No Master Thieves Here: Louvre Bandits Were Petty Criminals, Police Say
“This is not quite everyday delinquency … but it is a type of delinquency that we do not generally associate with the upper echelons...
Book Publishing’s Horror Genre Is Breaking Records
2024’s total figure of 836,199 was its biggest volume performance since 2009 and, so far in 2025, we have seen 628,431 books pass through the...
NYC’s Joyce Theatre Gets $15M Boost For Dance
Two of New York’s most prominent dance philanthropists are donating $15 million to the Joyce Theater, a leading dance stage in Manhattan, helping to...
A Non-Profit Is Crawling Paywalled Content And Supplying It To AI Companies
Common Crawl has opened a back door for AI companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites. And the foundation...
Librarians On The Front Lines Of Civilization
The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the...
Trump’s Skill With Imperial Images
Trump’s aggressive moves to accumulate political power — deploying National Guard troops, invoking massive tariffs —have prompted protests and lawsuits as well as plaudits....
Warning: BBC Is A Titanic On Collision Course
“The way that consumption habits have shifted over the last five years is almost more drastic than it was in the previous 50 years....
Opera America Names New President And CEO
Michael Bobbitt comes to OPERA America from the Mass Cultural Council in Boston, MA, where he served as Executive Director since 2021. - BroadwayWorld
Meet The New Head Of The UK Opera Association
“The perception that opera is only for posh people, with which I fundamentally disagree, has taken a grip on a lot of decision-makers,” Thangam...
Choreography By AI?
AISOMA is a Google AI-powered choreography tool that acts as a creative catalyst by generating new, original dance rooted in my choreographic language. -...
Sasha Suda Fired As Director Of Philadelphia Art Museum
Suda, who has been leading a change campaign at the museum since she arrived in 2022, reportedly has both supporters and detractors on the board. -...
Spotify Reports Strong Subscriber Gains, Record Profits
Music streamer Spotify saw third quarter operating profits grow a cool 28%, as its paying subscribers hit 281 million. - Deadline
Australia Imposes New Streaming Quotas
The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure –...
What Immanuel Kant Still Has To Teach Us Today
The central insight that these disparate thinkers took from Kant is that the world isn’t simply a thing, or a collection of things, given...
What Do We Need Hobbies For?
Although many have outward-facing aspects, a hobby is ultimately a form of self-cultivation, pursued for reasons of personal satisfaction. Our society values publicity and...
Not Bulldozing The White House Was A Convention, Not A Law. Many Things In...
After the architects’ convention in 1900, public officials turned to specialists to address questions of aesthetic and space planning that had previously been matters of...
Documenting The Present Is Resistance
Let this be painfully clear: The future will only remember what is preserved today, and the choice is between standing by as stories are...
Inside Princeton’s Ambitious New Museum
Despite its upgraded size, the redesigned museum never felt daunting. There’s something intimate about how the installation of its collection—one of the oldest in...
So AI Is Coming For Your Job. We Have To Think About Jobs Differently
AI’s automating powers are indiscriminate. They are affecting blue-collar manufacturing jobs and white-collar office jobs. Many who spent years, and thousands of dollars, developing...
Susan Orlean On The Glory Days Of The New Yorker
Orlean allows that if there’s anything anyone should be jealous of, it’s that she had been encouraged to pursue ideas most magazine editors would...
Universal Music Makes Big Licensing Deal With Spotify
“The agreement includes all aspects of YouTube’s various music services and platforms, embodies our artist-centric principles and drives greater monetization for artists and songwriters.”...
We Make Things That Make Life Easier. But There’s A Big Downside…
The more these systems anticipate and deliver what we want, the less we notice what’s missing—or remember that we ever had a choice in...
Harvard Is Cutting Back On PhD’s. That’s A Problem For Academia
Some might be wondering why anyone should care if, for example, the number of Harvard history Ph.D.s drops from 13 to five. Although these...
