Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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National Portrait Museum Director That Trump Fired Decides To Leave Anyway
“This was not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. From the very beginning, my guiding principle has been to...
The Gentileschi That Survived The Beirut Explosion
Having passed only between three private collections over four centuries, the “Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece” exhibition marks the first time the painting...
Canada’s Currently Reigning Major Prairie Poet
As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in English...
Sydney Theatre Company Scores Windfall Off Hit
Sydney Theatre Company has recorded a $10m boost to revenue after its Dorian Gray production became a West End hit, and is poised to reap millions...
What 18 Years In The Met Opera Costume Shops Looks Like
After 18 years, Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, 64, a fast-talking native New Yorker, is retiring this month from the Met. She has garnered a reputation as a calm...
How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet
We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder....
Are Bay Area Arts Organizations Sustainable? Some Data…
This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With...
What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry
McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive —...
Should Big Media Companies Really Shape Our Culture Like This?
We need to pay careful attention to the uneven power dynamics between major media companies and then the musicians and music lovers who live...
Why Literary Prizes Are A Bad Idea
As I got older and developed a more mature understanding of what literature is, the prizes started to seem increasingly bizarre and then sort...
The Rise Of Anonymous Visual Art Critics
Several platforms are proliferating across cyberspace, seemingly in response to a culture in mainstream art criticism that the authors perceive as risk averse. ‘No...
Your Brain’s Two Sides Hear Language Differently
Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. -...
Dayton Dance Company Fights To Keep Mexican Dancer In The US
“In my opinion, they are asking for proof of things that are not tangible. We are really trying to jump through all of the...
Rural Conservatives Used To Back Public Broadcasting. Now, Not So Much
According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in March, 43 percent of Americans supported continuing federal funding for NPR and PBS, 24 percent backed ending...
Getty Images Suit Over AI Copyright Goes To Trial In London This Week
Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written...
Disney And Universal Sue AI Companies Over Copyright
They are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and...
Perp Walk? Trump’s Wednesday Night Kennedy Center Event
It had the feel of a Hollywood movie premiere. Ahead of showtime, the Kennedy Center was a festival of Trump officials. - Washington Post
LA Arts Institutions Are Impacted By Militarization Of City’s Downtown
Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects...
Apple Music Exec: It’s Crazy That Streaming Services Give Music Away For Free
“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service....
After Decades Of Trying, Republicans May Finally Get To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting...
The bill, known on Capitol Hill as a “rescissions” proposal, is the closest NPR and PBS have ever come to a complete loss of...
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions seeks Remote Accounting Manager
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to perform the accounting activities for various clients in the arts and other nonprofit sectors.
This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth...
How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on...
Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI
Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has...
