Douglas McLennan

Douglas McLennan
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Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal

Okay, Here’s How The Publishing Business Really Works

Nobody would patronize a best-seller–only shopping mall kiosk called We Bet We Have That Book You Want, even though best-sellers are most of what...

Two Washington Stars Rise Up To Take On The Damaged Washington Post

The two closely named rivals plan to take on a much more established competitor: The Washington Post, which is owned by the Amazon founder...

Busting Conventional Wisdom: The Number Of Bookstores Isn’t Shrinking, It’s Growing Robustly

Membership in the ABA grew by more than 500 over the past year, to a total of 3,417 (at 3,783 locations), nearly triple what...

A Priority For Australia’s Next Cultural Policy: Protecting Freedom Of Expression

Treating freedom of expression and social cohesion as trade-offs is a category error. Freedom of expression is an internal attribute of cultural activity, an...

Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin, Philanthropist Who Saved New Orleans’ Symphony Orchestra, Dies At 93

Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin, a queen of Carnival who became a lawyer and philanthropist whose gifts of money, determination and leadership helped save New Orleans’...

Rosamund Pike Lectures Audience Member From The Stage For Texting During Performance

“Maybe it was very important, and maybe you’re a doctor, and you’re saving someone’s life, and I hope you are, but we do see...

University Student Audience Member Steps In To Finish Performance When Keyboardist Falls Ill

The orchestra’s keyboardist had suddenly fallen ill. Was there by any chance a pianist in the house? And one with exceptional sight-reading skills? -...

Study: Humans Need “Semantic Knowledge” To Innovate

The research demonstrates that our “semantic knowledge”, the internal cognitive map of how concepts connect and apply to one another, is the absolute precondition...

We Need Artists To Collaborate With AI

Machine learning represents a seismic shift, both in society and in the arts, and we need storytellers, artists, teachers and thinkers in this space...

Ragazzi Boys Chorus seeks Artistic Director

Ragazzi Boys Chorus seeks Artistic Director. Salary in the range of $130,000 and $150,000. Please see the link for full details.

The Trump Administration Is Dismantling Support For Social Science Research

If the National Science Foundation does stop funding social scientists, experts told me, our 5,000-foot-view of American life will get foggier. The NSF, through...

The World Is Becoming Automated Around Us. Are Humans Losing Autonomy?

Computers talk to computers, producing information to train computers to sound more like humans or to better engage them. Humans type into the box,...

A Dancer Helping To Redefine What A Ballet Body Is

Ballet has a reputation for upholding rigid body standards. In recent years, though, the art form has been rethinking its relationship to diversity in...

How Alice Walton Culturally Transformed A Corner Of Arkansas

It’s impossible to miss the scope of transformation that’s happened in Bentonville, population 63,000. - Fast Company

Just What Does “American” Architecture Look Like In 2026?

A new book makes the case that when it comes to evolving forms and styles in American architecture, a new generation of firms is...

Not So Fast: Interior Secretary Won’t Commit To Removing Trump Name From The Kennedy...

Secretary Burgum’s hedging came as Trump attacked the decision and the judge behind it on social media Friday and Saturday. - Time

What We Need To Do To Get America Reading Again

Teaching people to read and building a world where they can do so are different problems. Throwing our phones in the lake can’t bring...

Facebook Whistleblower Forced To Stay Silent On Hay Festival By Meta

Sarah Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr...

AI-Created Music Is Now Overwhelming Playlists

AI music has gone viral before and charted before, but song generators are now good and fast enough that they can flood the zone, creating tracks that slip...

A Trio Of Prominent Art Critics Has Just Retired. Here’s What We’ve Lost

The trio were not only the most influential, but also the most gainfully employed—two factors that have everything to do with each other. - ARTnews

Presidio Theatre seeks Executive Director

Presidio Theatre seeks Executive Director. Estimated base salary in the range of $200,000 to $220,000.

AJ Chronicles: Google Just Changed the way We’re Going to Find Culture

What Google presented this month was revolutionary, a declaration that the web as we know it is dead, and an operating manual for how the new web will work. More important, it suggests how we all will find — or fail to find — culture over the next decade.

Federal Judge Orders Trump To Take His Name Off The Kennedy Center

A federal judge Friday ordered that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and that...

Top Hollywood Exec Pay Rose 51 Percent As Industry Shed 17,000 Jobs

The total compensation for the top executives surged a stunning 51% from a year earlier, based on a tally of $615 million vs. $408.5...

The Art Looter Who Supplied Museums

Latchford’s success depended not just on criminal networks that supplied and transported these objects, but on the willingness of museums, dealers, collectors, and scholars...