Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Davone Tines On Defining A Role In Classical Music
What’s too often missing for Tines in opera and classical music is an investigation into why treasured artworks remain valuable and what they may...
The Meaning Of Serious Leisure
The idea of serious leisure was coined in 1982 by sociologist Robert Stebbins, who described the unique characteristics of more structured leisure pursuits. The more we understand...
The Books Ecosystem Is Dying
In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation. Newspapers used to bundle several...
How Architects Are Returning To The Earth
Today, as architects seek to improve the sustainability of a sector that is responsible for more than a third of global carbon emissions, the...
Quantum Theatre – Artistic Director
Quantum Theatre seeks a visionary Artistic Director to build on an experimental legacy, shape ambitious programming, and lead Quantum into its next era of impact.
AJ Chronicles: This week’s stories — When Spectacle replaces Authority
My weekly essay reflecting on arts stories of the past week.
How Typists Have Shaped Literary Masterpieces
The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and...
San Francisco’s Top Arts Official Retires As Mayor Rethinks Arts Policy
The exit, announced Monday, Feb. 2, comes just days after Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a job description for an executive director of arts and culture to...
What Trump’s Kennedy Center Fiasco Shows Us Abut MAGA’s Culture Wars
What’s even fascinating is what this whole debacle tells us about the MAGA movement as a whole, and how Trump is the perfect symbol for their...
Whitewashing History In Philadelphia
To many Philadelphians who having been coming daily ever since to leave protest messages, it felt like an attack on a hard-won monument, and...
We Think Cooperation Is The Ideal. In Fact A little Deceit Might Be Good
We evolved not to cooperate or compete, but with the capacity for both – and with the intelligence to hide competition when it suits...
Reimagining Shakespeare In Shanghai
Instead of Venice and Cyprus, Shakespeare’s setting for “Othello,” the Shanghai version takes place on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River,...
The Muppets Were On Top. Then Decades Of Bad Business Decisions Toppled Their Popularity....
The characters have survived a cruel decade defined largely by false starts, aborted projects and creative in-fighting. - The Wrap (MSN)
Enormous Challenges For Disney’s New CEO
The entertainment industry is in flux, and Disney will need someone with a deft hand if it is to survive and thrive. The business...
Something Is Not Working In Sacramento’s Arts
This struggle, we have found, applies across the board and includes live music venues, theater groups, performance arts, galleries, and does not discriminate between...
An Ambitious Project To Document Dance
The ambitious project was five years in the making and culled street dance resources from a wide-ranging array of sources spanning mediums. - Fjord Review
Crypto Investors Pay $300K To Create Gold Trump Statue
At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a...
Critics Hate Proposed Plans For British Museum Spruce-Up
New security buildings in the grounds of the British Museum would look "too flashy" and resemble "a shop and wine bar", opponents to the...
Netflix CEO Goes To Testify Before Congress; A Culture War Ensues
He ended up spending much of his time before the Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights pushing back against accusations from...
Michelangelo And Titian: A Contemporary Odd Couple
The two men couldn’t have been more different. Titian was a painter while Michelangelo, though renowned both as a painter and a sculptor, saw...
Bruce Springsteen’s Protest Song In The Age Of Digital Spread
What distinguishes Streets of Minneapolis is not just its fidelity to the tradition of the protest song, but its mode of circulation as a...
Amazon Pulls “Melania” From Movie Theatre After Cheeky Marquee Promotion
It all started with a joke on a movie marquee: “To defeat your enemy, you must know them. ‘Melania’ starts Friday.” - Seattle Times
Testing Trumps Claims About Closing The Kennedy Center
One is that the center needs major upgrades. That is true. The other is that those upgrades require full closure of the entire campus...
Why Boys Are Worse At Reading At Every Grade
Test score data presents averages. Many girls struggle to read, and many boys excel at it. But overall, boys are about three-quarters of a...
Washington Post Decimates Its Arts Staff In Paper-Wide Layoffs
While a list of all those who've lost their positions is not yet available, multiple arts and culture reporters have confirmed the layoffs. -...
