Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Good Morning:
Today's AJ highlights: This morning, the commercial pressures eroding artistic integrity, the search for meaning in a fast-paced media landscape, and celebrate the enduring...
Why Are We Curious About Some Things And Not Others?
All this infophilia raises an important question: if we like information so much, why don’t we seek out more of it? - Psyche
Pew Arts And Culture Names A New Leader
Christina Vassallo, 45, follows Paula Marincola, who retired in October after serving as the center’s first director, since 2008. After leaving the Fabric Workshop in 2023,...
How Streaming Made Documentaries Popular (And Wrecked The Form)
Presently, non-fiction filmmaking (in the form of docuseries) stands as a cornerstone of streaming economics, a format bolstered and degraded by an ever-growing demand...
How Netflix Upended The Movie Business
Netflix’s movies don’t have to abide by any of the norms established over the history of cinema: they don’t have to be profitable, pretty,...
Princeton’s New Museum Is An Important Building
This extraordinarily rich design is certainly assertive throughout, but it is completely in synch with the nature of an institution that has been collecting...
Playwrights Are Breaking Theatre’s Fourth Wall
These writers create an environment in which characters can enter or exit the main storyline as if from a magic door. Audiences are cognizant...
The Golden Globes Are Back (And Still Problematic)
So, yes, for all intents and purposes, the Golden Globes are back. But regarding ethical practices, today’s for-profit Globes may well be worse than...
Producer: AI Is Inevitable In Music. Time To Have A Strategy
“Everybody should be selling or licensing their voice and their skills to these companies,” Stewart said. “Otherwise they’re just going to take it anyway.”...
Louvre Leak Causes Water Damage To Art Work
“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as...
Solving An 800-Picture Art Heist In Slow Motion
Some 800 paintings have been taken from the collection since 1945, in one of the most devastating spates of art theft in Germany’s postwar...
Director of Development for Texas Ballet Theater
Texas Ballet Theater seeks a creative, hands-on Development Director to lead annual fundraising efforts and prepare for a capital campaign.
PEM, Director of Exhibition Design
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, seeks a Director of Exhibition Design to lead its Exhibition Design Department
Struggling To Define Intelligence: What Does It Take?
We are running out of intelligence tests that humans can pass reliably and AI models cannot. By those benchmarks, and if we accept that intelligence is...
Spotify Wrapped Is Everything That’s Wrong About Our Outsourced Musical Taste
It nudges listeners away from deep consideration and towards accepting a corporate-branded scorecard reflecting a very specific perspective on musical value. It encourages music...
Architecture Is Shifting From The “Lone Genius” Model To Collective Activism
Architects are expanding their boundaries into other fields such as gastronomy, music, design, and the corporate world, applying spatial thinking to address challenges of...
Inside The Enormous New Grand Egyptian Museum
Located on a desert plateau formed by the Nile thousands of years ago, the Museum's geological setting was integral to the design. Beginning at a focal...
Why Small Publishers Are In Crisis
There’s a sense that big publishing has stopped investing in people, authors, and good writing, and is just producing huge amounts of product, which...
Trump’s FTC Might Block The Netflix/Warner Deal. That Wouldn’t Be A Bad Thing
From a competition standpoint, Warner Bros. going to Netflix is sharp a step in the wrong direction. It’s turbocharging the runaway market leader, leaving...
How An Ex-Actress Created Tilly, The AI Actress
Eline Van der Velden toiled with her 15-person team to nail down the look of her leading lady, creating 2,000 iterations of an actress...
How Netflix Swallowed Hollywood
Piece by piece, Netflix has disrupted a more-than-century-old industry, from the way consumers rent movies and TV shows, to the cadence at which new...
Another Big Departure At The George Lucas Museum
“There are no immediate plans to replace Pilar’s role as Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collections,” wrote interim Chief Executive Jim...
Behold The “Performative Reader”
Performative reading has firmly implanted itself into the popular imagination, becoming a meme for a generation of people who, by all accounts, aren’t reading...
The AI that has Colonized our Creativity
Everyone's talking about AI, and you're being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Arts Administration
The Arts Administration program at Elon University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position that begins in August 2026.
