Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Harvard Makes Budget Cuts In Humanities Programs
Harvard’s Arts and Humanities division instructed department heads to collectively reduce their budgets for non-personnel spending by roughly $1.95 million as divisions across the...
UCLA Gears Up To Battle Justice Department
Leaders have made it clear that a $1-billion payout is a no-go. Another red line for several UC officials is the federal request that...
Artistic Director – Dallas Theater Center working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Dallas Theater Center (DTC) encourages qualified candidates to apply for the Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Position.
What The Restoration Of A Historic Glasgow Theatre Says About The Future Of Historic...
The redevelopment and restoration of older theatres such as the Citizens has become important as their social value and anchoring presence in towns and...
Why A Visual Image Gives Us Pleasure
It is noteworthy that as strikingly photographic, familiar, dramatic — what have you — the painting is, one source of its pleasure has nothing...
A Contest To Live In A Depopulated German City Has Been A Surprising Success
The competition drew more than 1,700 applications from around the world to try living in Eisenhüttenstadt, a Soviet-style planned city on the Polish border,...
How Germany Put Live Music At The Core Of Its Public Broadcasting
In its capacity to unite a nation across generational boundaries, broadcast live music, freed from the trappings of stardom and commerce, had proved its...
When We Measure Everything Our Perceptions And Ability To Process The World Change
The machinery of ordinalisation attends carefully to individuals rather than coarse classes or groups. By doing so, it appears to liberate people from the...
Study: AI Might Create New Forms Of Music
Notably, the researchers found that the ongoing debate about copyright in AI-generated music is one of the major reasons why some artists are creating...
Any Surprise? Top Talent Exiting American Universities
An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment...
Will At The Center Of A Shakespeare Controversy Has Been Located After 150 Years
A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s...
Attack On The Smithsonian Is A Threat To Our History
This is not simply a disagreement over museum curation; it’s a dangerous and calculated attempt to whitewash our history, silence uncomfortable truths, and undermine...
How Wired Magazine Got Scammed By AI
You couldn’t make a better WIRED pitch if you built it in a lab. Or in this case, with the help of a large...
37 Rules For Navigating A Successful Theatre Experience
Here is your cheat sheet for making the most of your time at the theater while not accidentally becoming the drama. - Washington Post...
Can You Really Deprogram Your MAGA Parents With A Book Club?
"I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as...
Musical Theatre Through The Eyes Of The Orchestra
Even for a theatre critic, the orchestra is easy to overlook. It wasn’t until I sat in behind the scenes, with a copy of...
Is Trump Trying To Sanitize History Of Slavery?
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden...
How Ambiguity Chews The Center Out Of Public Discourse
Democracies thrive on open debate, but when the threat is not strong enough to unite and not weak enough to ignore, debate can spiral...
The Legal Strategy Threatening Your Right To Read
In 2023, our book was one of thousands pulled from library shelves around the country, and as we write, an evolving legal strategy being...
Data: Are Art Historians Now More Employable Than Computer Scientists?
According to data released this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recent art history graduates nationwide were more employed than computer science...
Portland Art Museum Chief Tapped To Run Dallas Museum Of Art
Brian Ferriso came to Portland in 2006 after a series of art museum leadership roles in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Milwaukee and Chicago. During his tenure,...
Why MAGA Is Mad At The Smithsonian
“We’ve got to get patriotism back in the Smithsonian,” conservative Texas Congressman Sam Johnson said, on being appointed to the museum’s Board of Regents...
Trump Is Policing The Smithsonian. How Might He Threaten Other Museums?
The White House started an audit of the Smithsonian earlier this month. But what about other institutions? It is unclear what legal and financial pressures his...
Tough Time For Theatre At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
“The audience appetite for theatre just isn’t here this year,” said one producer, who has been bringing work for a number of years, adding...
Should The Rocky Statue Stay At The Philadelphia Art Museum?
I’m not arguing for the original statue to go anywhere, but do we need Stallone’s exact replica of it a few hundred feet away...
