Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Artistic Director – Indianapolis Ballet working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Indianapolis Ballet (IB) seeks its next Artistic Director, who will carry the organization’s mission forward, embracing the history and future of classical ballet through dynamic
Helen DeWitt Declined A Prestigious $175,000 Prize. Is She Principled Or Crazy?
Opinions on her recent stance are strongly divided: some have praised her principled refusal to play the self-promotion game that takes so much out...
Connections Between Classical Music And Heavy Metal?
There’s more that connects metal and classical music than sets them apart. A love of volume, turning the noise up to 11? From Black...
What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Investment In Paramount’s Warner Deal
The Kingdom’s bet on entertainment at home has been matched by an equally ambitious push abroad — one that is rapidly reshaping Hollywood’s balance...
Trump’s Plan For A Supersized Arch Alienates Even Supporters
Trump’s push to build the giant arch — more than quadrupling its size from original plans — has alienated early proponents of the project,...
Court Moves To Examine Merger Of Two Local TV Conglomerates
The deal shatters several records: It gives Nexstar control of 265 local stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, reaching 80% of...
The End Of The Internet As We Know It
Now, thanks to new A.I. tools, anyone can write code. Soon, bad actors could use those same tools to find out what’s wrong with...
NPR Announced Transformative Philanthropic Support
NPR today announced it has received philanthropic gifts totaling more than $110 million — including the largest by a living donor in NPR's history...
Spotify Partners With Local Music Venues
Under the partnership, Spotify will boost visibility for independent venues through existing features including venue pages and its Live Events Feed throughout 2026. The platform will also display...
An Autistic Man Wrote A Bestselling Book. Didn’t He?
"It is mysterious and confounding to see a severely autistic nonspeaker perform acts of scholarship and fiction writing if you don’t presume intelligence in...
Why Should We Indulge In Art In Difficult Times?
At a time of great suffering and upheaval, is it right to engage with art? Or are we using it as a way of...
The Pressure To Go Viral: These Days You Can’t Be An Artist Without It
All of a sudden, chefs, lawyers, podcasters, critics – all people with jobs once associated with an off-camera existence – are turning the lens...
Man Wins $1.2M Picasso In Christie’s Raffle
"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the 58-year-old asked when he was told he was the new owner of the 1941 work...
Why Movie Theatre Owners Are Fighting The Paramount/Warner Deal
“Further concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies, and access...
I Survived A Year Inside Stephen King’s Archives
This book is Caroline Bicks’s account of what happened when King gave her permission to spend a year in his archive, poring over the...
What 100 Years Of Data Shows Us About Who Gets Guggenheim Grants
If 100 years of data are any indication, then an outsized share of the new recipients work at the most renowned universities in the...
Millions Of People Are Pretending To Be Chatbots, And Making… Art
The site forces its human users to approximate the speed at which a machine would return a response; there's a 75-second time limit. So...
Action Star Jackie Chan To Direct… Puccini?
Chan, known for films like Rush Hour and Rumble in the Bronx, will introduce martial arts into the storytelling as a means of emotional expression. Each character...
Two Major Atlanta Museums Ponder Their Place In The City
The two museums now share a similar challenge: to reach across racial, economic, educational and even geographic lines to feel vital and necessary to...
The Decades-Old Little Box That Has Fans Raving About The Guitar Again
The quest to achieve the “Mk.gee tone” spawned a series of “How Does He Make His Guitar Sound Like That?” YouTube videos; musicians compared...
Victoria & Albert Museum Deleted Images From Catalogues That Violated Chinese Censorship Laws
The Victoria and Albert Museum has agreed to requests by the Chinese printing company to delete maps and images from at least two recent...
Jury Rules Ticketmaster and LiveNation Are Illegal Monopolies
The ruling is essentially a rebuke to the Department of Justice’s settlement with Live Nation last month — reportedly ordered directly by President Donald Trump —...
Director of Development
Playwrights Horizons, an award-winning Off-Broadway theater located in the heart of Manhattan, seeks a dynamic, strategic and collaborative Director of Development to lead a high-performing
New Contemporary Art Museum In Indianapolis Aims To Reinvent The Form
The $13 million campus, which spans five acres, includes a Vegas-style, chicken-themed wedding chapel, a radio station, a contemporary art gallery with a coffee...
Trump Fires Entire Presidio Board
A year after threatening to "dramatically" downsize the operations of San Francisco's Presidio, President Donald Trump has terminated the park's board of trustees. - San...
