Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Creativity is Dead in the 21st Century? Really?
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A piece in the Yale Review asks whether the 21st century has been a creative blank space — two decades of remixing without...
Northwest Choirs – Executive Director
Northwest Choirs seeks a dynamic Executive Director to guide a leading youth choral organization into its next stage of growth, visibility, and sustainability.
AMC Postpones Interactive Movie Theatre Concert Series
The chain is partnering with live entertainment company Arena One to bring new technology to theaters. This tech would allow artists on a remote...
Demand For Workers With Creative Skills Is Growing
Nearly 50% of employers are looking to expand their workforce in the next three to five years. Video games, music, design and fashion were...
Has The 21st Century Been A Creative Blank Space?
The years from 2000 to 2025 as a period of creative emptiness and stagnation so intractable that it will be remembered (or, rather, is...
Why Pace Gallery Imploded
According to several people familiar with the call, Glimcher spent much of the meeting explaining why Pace had reached this point. The gallery had...
Wigmore Hall And Apple Music Launch New Digital Platform For Artists
Under a new artist-first model, Wigmore Hall will pay the full production costs for every release and will take no share of the recording...
EU Investigating Paramount/Warner Financing
The European Commission is investigating the $111 billion Paramount-WBD deal under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation, looking at the approximately $24 billion being fronted for the...
After Strikes And Fiery Rhetoric Last Time, Why Were Hollywood Contracts So Easy This...
The top factor, perhaps, was the ongoing fallout from Hollywood’s contraction. It’s no small thing that, since 2022, studios have tightened their belts and...
Survey: Nearly Half Of Mid-Career Women Are Considering Leaving The Arts
While the inaugural survey revealed gaps in leadership roles and pay for women, this edition offers a more detailed picture of the structural pressures...
Carbon Fiber Violin — Meet Stradivari
Both the carbon fibre violin and the bow impressed with their dark, warm, and distinctive tone. From the very beginning, the two violins blended...
A New Penn Station We Won’t Dread Walking Into?
PTT's plan features a design by PAU and HOK that references the original beaux-arts station – unceremoniously demolished in the 1960s – and retains Madison Square Garden (MSG)...
Director of Marketing – Artis-Naples
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Is LA Really a Theatre Town?
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The decline story is the easy one to write. Today's feed makes the case for the other one — where culture is building,...
Web Video Is Coming To TV. But The Tyranny Of Web Format Is Problematic
How much do we want the internet to be television? A good gimmick for social-media content doesn’t automatically translate to interesting TV, a medium...
Condustor Ryan Wigglesworth On What The Classical Music World Is Now
A new generation – of concert-goers as well as performers – are essential to classical music’s future. Would a Ryan Wigglesworth born today still...
If It’s Art And People Like It, Then…
Our reigning cultural ideology has been poptimism—the idea that if a lot of people like a work of art, then it has to be good....
Is LA Finally Getting The Fringe Theatre Festival It Deserves?
This year’s event has a record number of participants, and is set to break even after operating at a loss for the last two...
How Good Is AI At Spotting Talent? Soccer Teams Are Working On It
For decades, the beautiful game depended on the human eye: a scout on the sideline, attentively watching, waiting for that something special. That process,...
How Do You Prepare For The NBA Finals? Wembanyama Sketches In Gramercy Park
As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe,...
Movie Scores Are Taking Over Orchestra Programs
What used to be a novelty has now become a core staple of symphonic programming in the United States: live soundtracks, performances in which...
California Universities Abandoned The SAT. It’s Been A Disaster
A huge share of STEM and economics faculty across the UC system is now in open revolt—demanding that California’s public universities at least look...
AI Bootleggers Are Stealing Songs, Tweaking Them And Making Money
It was an AI-manipulated version of the band’s 2019 single “Angels Above Me,” sped up with a tweaked lead vocal and a dance-music kick...
Executive Director – Historic Paramount Theatre
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Archaeologists Find Intact 18th Century Ship Off Norway
In addition to the well-preserved ceramics, researchers found barrels of grain and an array of high-end European-made goods ranging from chandeliers to stemmed glasses....
