Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How Your Brain Toggles Between The Familiar And Exploration
Research from my team suggests that people balance between exploration and habit – that is, trying something new or sticking with the familiar – when deciding...
Artists In The Age Of AI: Let’s Explore The Labor-Intensive Art Of The Renaissance
Artists have been raiding the toolkits of the Old Masters with new urgency of late, borrowing and reworking Renaissance and Baroque compositional drama, symbolism, and increasingly,...
NYU Students Protest Jonathan Haidt As Graduation Speaker
Student government leaders at New York University are objecting to his selection as the graduation speaker at Yankee Stadium — calling it “deeply unsettling”...
The Most-Performed Classical Music Concerts In Australia: Live Movie Music
According to the latest Live Performance Australia data, the most popular classical music performances in 2024 included Star Wars, How to Train Your Dragon, Pirates...
How The Smithsonian Decided To Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
“What we landed on were those moments where individuals or communities had fought for recognition and advocated for their own sense of identity and...
Reconciling The Values Of Silicon Valley
For decades, these ideologies were tolerated as part of a tacit social bargain: A group of intelligent eccentrics were left to their own devices...
Two governments, two theories of culture
Good Morning,
Australia unveiled a $1.1 billion arts package today — fresh money for Creative Australia, the national collecting institutions, and cultural infrastructure (Limelight). At...
Lead Event Technical Director
Lead Event Technical Director: oversee technical operations, crew leadership, safety compliance, and client coordination; requires rigging, carpentry, audio, lighting expertise in fast-paced performing arts venue.
Leading Paris Gallery Goes Bankrupt After 36 Years, Closes
Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery’s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous...
The (Mis)Understanding Of Joan Didion
The places and events that Didion samples in the late Sixties—a time of unpopular foreign involvements, identity-based unrest at home, and a divisive, enigmatic national government—make...
Is Capitalism Forever? Or…
No matter how one defines capitalism, the concept has served its critics well. Capitalism named an enemy, gave it a shape, and showed that it was on...
Radical Reinvention Won’t Save Orchestras. Maybe Another Way?
Fruitful change in classical concert-going isn’t going to happen via a revolution. Change can only happen in a piecemeal, gradual way, building on what...
PRX Leans Into Innovation In Public Media Crisis
PRX works with 900 stations across the U.S., distributing more than 20 public radio shows like “The Moth” and “Latino USA.” They reach 5.3...
Time Out Names London As The World’s Top Culture Scene
Recognised for the scale, quality and accessibility of its cultural scene, the UK capital embraces diverse communities and historic landmarks, alongside an extraordinary range...
Seismic Shift: Streaming Ad Buying About To Overtake TV Ad Revenue
After increasing rapidly in recent years, streaming ad spending is projected to approach $20 billion by 2029, not far off linear TV ad spending,...
Five Ideas To Fix Spotify
Music revenues were up 6.4% last year, marking its eleventh consecutive year of growth. The industry has doubled since 2014 and there are now...
How AI Killed Off The Princeton Honor Code
A study of thousands of students at Rutgers University found that, in 2017, a majority copied their homework answers from the internet. AI has...
Pianist Sues Melbourne Symphony Over “Free Speech”
The British Australian musician is suing the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for discrimination based on political belief, after it cancelled one of his scheduled performances. His recital...
Chief People Officer – Jacob’s Pillow via TOC Arts Partners
Jacob's Pillow seeks a Chief People Officer.
Two Women Who Shaped Houston’s Art Scene For Decades
Maybe these two weren’t wildcatters or captains of industry, but their contributions to the cultural life of Houston and its global reputation as a...
The Politics Behind Israel And The Eurovision Song Competition
This previously undisclosed diplomatic push to keep Israel in Eurovision was just one aspect of a drama that unfolded over the past year around...
Opera Production Canceled After A Single Complaint
The Minack Theatre at Porthcurno pulled a planned production of Léo Delibes’s Lakmé after a US-based Hindu campaigner described the opera as “shallow exoticism based on...
Maybe Resilience Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does?
Part of the appeal is that calling someone resilient in the endurance sense sounds kind. It feels like encouragement rather than judgment. But communicating...
Researchers Use AI To Write New Moliere
More than 350 years after his death, the 17th-century dramatist has been revived after scholars at the Sorbonne University in Paris used artificial intelligence to help...
Inside The Ransomware Attack On Education
Hackers who had previously targeted Google and Ticketmaster had purposely chosen now, when college finals are happening, to threaten Instructure, the company that makes...
