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Douglas McLennan

Douglas McLennan
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Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations

The AVP is responsible for leading administrative and financial operations, database use and management, data integrity, software use and management, and development of procedures, protocols, and processes.

Executive Director, Institute for Contemporary Art

The ICA has become a focal point of Richmond’s energetic arts district, serving as a nexus for creativity and inclusion, where innovative thinking and transformational ideas are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines.

Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego invites exceptional dance educators and dance makers who emphasize interdisciplinary methodologies and whose research is rooted in African and Afro-Diasporic experiences and practices that are varyingly multiracial, trans-geographic and intersectional.

Kennicott: The Baltimore Bridge And Its Symbolism

The loss of the bridge is first a human tragedy. Then it is an economic shock, with a radiating toll that won’t be fully understood...

Can There Truly Be “New” Opera Without Saying Goodbye To The Old?

In short: There can be no history of operatic modernity that is not also a memorial, no production of new opera that does not...

How The Hulu Merger Is Changing The Ways Disney Works

Yes, Hulu is just a tile. But that tile also seems to represent something bigger inside of Disney: the full Disney Plus-ification of everything,...

For Centuries The Dutch Have Fought Back The Water. In Climate Change Maybe Cities...

 “I think some bowls should be full,” he said, suggesting that flooding the land would amount to little more than a natural evolution of...

It’s Been 35 Years Since The Pacific Symphony Last Picked A Music Director. The...

Carl St.Clair is currently the longest-serving music director of a major American orchestra, and under his baton the ensemble has flourished: It’s now the...

Standup Comedy Flourished In China During Lockdown. Now The Government Crackdown

Flippant references to China’s military, like those to top leaders, are considered off limits in official life, and such taboos have been codified under...

Christopher Knight: Questions About The Broad Museum Expansion

The conceit of a vanity museum’s design being dubbed “the veil and the vault,” with a perforated exterior draped over a treasury for a private collection...

LA’s Broad Museum Announces Major Expansion

The Broad on Wednesday announced a $100-million building expansion that will increase gallery space at one of Los Angeles’ most popular museums by 70%....

Toymakers Design Human Characteristics Into Their Work. And AI?

Large language models can seem to do more than what we ask them to; they exhibit something that we might call creativity if a...

London’s Wigmore Hall Announces Endowment Campaign To Eliminate Its Public Funding

The venue has an annual grant of £344,206 from Arts Council England (ACE) but John Gilhooly, Wigmore Hall’s artistic and executive director, says that...

“Mama Mia” Star Informed She’s Being Replaced By AI Voice

Musical theater star Sara Poyzer publicly shared a screenshot of an email she received from an unnamed production company which read: “Sorry for the delay—we have...

US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers

As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as...

Is It True That Quality TV Is Done For?

"There's definitely been a contraction after years of it feeling like TV was undergoing this crazy expansion." - BBC

How The Head Of Juilliard’s Dance Program Is Shaking Things Up

In 2018, she became the prestigious New York conservatory's first woman of color to head the dance program — and the youngest person to...

How Two Amsterdam Museums Managed Hyper-Demand For Blockbuster Shows

“I thought we would sell out and would probably have about half a million visitors. In the end we had 650,000, but we could...

Inside San Francisco Symphony’s Budget Issues And What They Say About Priorities

Given these “significant financial pressures,” where does the multimillion-dollar Davies renovation project stand, certain to pose challenges even if the cost of application and...

How Steppenwolf Theatre Reimagined Its Educational Mission

It seemed that the education department functioned as a sort of nonprofit running within another nonprofit, having separate conversations about programming. - American Theatre

For The Second Time Since 1987, Vinyl Records Outsold CDs Last Year

People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s 6 million more than the number of CDs...

There Are Lots Of Music Subscription Experiments Going On. How About This One?

The term “blockchain” has dropped out of the public consciousness since the calming of the NFT frenzy of the early 2020s. But the technology...

Can This Record Producer’s Book Really Turn You Into An Artist?

The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as...

AI Translators And The End Of Language Instruction

Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern...

Richard Serra, 85

Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmarks like Stonehenge. - The New...
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