Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
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...
At BET Awards, Stars Call Out Trump Administration
Doechii, the Grammy-winning rapper, and entertainment mogul Tyler Perry made overt statements about the current administration and its multi-pronged attacks on communities of color....
UC Irvine In Negotiations To Run Orange County Museum Of Art
“The university would run the museum. The details are being worked out. Negotiations are ongoing and a finished agreement is months away with the...
Smithsonian Will Conduct Content Review Of Collections after Trump Request
“The board directed the secretary to assess content in museums and make needed changes to ensure unbiased content, including personnel changes,” a Smithsonian spokesman...
How I Rediscovered The Joys Of Reading In BookTok
To read for joy, for wonder, for emotional truth is to hold onto something deeply human. And in a moment when the stories we’re...
Trump DOJ Says President Can Abolish National Monument Protections
The May 27 document, which reverses a legal opinion issued in 1938, could be laying the groundwork for Trump to abolish or dramatically shrink...
Actors Unions Make Deal with Video Game Producers After Strike Over AI
With the strike, the union took a stand against proposed AI terms that leaders claimed would have allowed companies to undercut members and their...
George Street Playhouse: Director of Advancement, New Brunswick, NJ
George Street Playhouse, Central NJ’s premier producing theater, seeks experienced Director of Advancement to lead ambitious fundraising program that supports GSP’s vision next 50 years.
William Kentridge On Creating Art
You’ve probably had the experience where you’ve written something, it feels really great and, the next morning, you read it and think, “Who wrote...
What Monet Understood About Evoking A Place
This immersiveness does not come from an illusion of being in three dimensions – the opposite, in fact. Monet does a few subtle things...
