Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Just How Big is the Culture Economy?
Most arts policy debates happen at one scale. Most cultural activity happens at another. It turns out the gap between those two scales — between the world that the arts, funding fights, and nonprofit board meetings live in, and the world where most people actually encounter culture — is so
Disney, CBS, Venice: Pressure Is the Point
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A pattern keeps showing up today: institutions getting squeezed over what they broadcast, show, or teach. The FCC has formally opened a license-renewal...
VP of Human Resources, Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Seeking a Vice President of Human Resources to lead TPAC’s strategic growth, culture, and talent while guiding staff through complex, transformative organizational evolution.
FCC Starts Investigation Of Disney Broadcast License
As expected, Brendan Carr and the FCC on Tuesday unleashed license-renewal hell on The Walt Disney Co. However, with another Jimmy Kimmel brouhaha erupting with Donald Trump and MAGAland, the Josh D’Amaro-led Disney is playing...
A Shift: Reviews Are More Important Than Ratings In Streaming
Reviews are now even more crucial than they used to be while ratings have dipped in importance in a world of cannibalized viewing, Jeff...
A Conversation With Víkingur Ólafsson
"So you could also call me a soft Viking. I tend to stay away from crime, but I do like parallel fifths and parallel...
Cory Doctorow: Why The World Is Suddenly Becoming Enshittified
“The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, they’re all turning into piles of shit. Worse, the digital is merging with...
State Legislatures Tweak Library And School Laws Concerning Books (To Protect Them)
“We’ve had success in blue states that want to protect from book banning at the local level, but these efforts have moved to purple...
NJ Father/Daughter Team Convicted Of $2M Art Fraud
Erwin Bankowski, 50, and Karolina Bankowska, 26, admitted in federal court in Brooklyn to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American–produced goods. The pair, a father...
Zimbabwe’s Plundered Iconic Stone Birds Are Finally Returned
Known as the Zimbabwe Bird, it has long been a symbol of national identity, but behind it lies a complex tale of displacement, colonial...
In a Strange Broadway Season, Some Big Stars
The play is still the thing for these powerhouse performers, even if drama as good as Arthur Miller’s masterpiece is a rare occurrence in...
What Has Gone Wrong With Architecture
Architecture is a Fox’s discipline. It sits between capital, politics, infrastructure, climate, design, engineering, art, psychology, and economics. Its task is to hold these...
The Death Of Art Schools
Rather than treating education as a public good, elected officials shift the burden onto individuals, underfund institutions, and protect a system that redistributes wealth...
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Rise Of The Viral Micro-Drama
While the rest of the world was getting hooked on cat videos and bedroom-dance routines, Chinese creators were tinkering with something more ambitious: serialized...
Nilo Cruz: The Art Of Opera Libretto
A play lives in language. An opera lives in duration. One moment in an opera can expand for five minutes. Maybe you give the...
AI: A Philosophy About Language
The underlying intelligence of a large language model isn’t a function of its architecture, its parameter count, or the volume of compute thrown at its training....
New Google Paper Argues AI Will Never Be Conscious
The paper shows the divergence between the self-serving narratives AI companies promote in the media and how they collapse under rigorous examination. - 404...
A Detailed Account Of The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
A former FBI agent who led the investigation for more than two decades is now offering the first detailed account of how investigators reached...
Why AI Is Struggling With Creativity
Many generative AI programs geared toward creative fields have encountered a common problem: rapid initial adoption, followed by declining sustained engagement. - The Conversation
Docs: Adelaide Writers Week Sacrificed To Save Arts Festival
Adelaide writers’ week was sacrificed to save the 2026 Adelaide festival, an event that ploughs more than $60m into South Australia’s economy each year, documents...
Why It’s So Difficult To Agree On Truth
These different notions of truth shape everyday discourse as well as philosophical debate. They might help explain why some arguments feel pointless, why political...
Director of Production-Seattle Children’s Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Seattle Children’s Theatre, one of the nation’s premiere organizations for theatre-for-young audiences, invites applications from dedicated and collaborative leaders for its Director of Production position.
So An AI Has Just Declared A Painting By A Street Artist More Valuable...
What’s worth more—a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the...
How Short-Form Video Clips Took Over The Internet
Once you start looking, you realize that short video clips—not tweets, or posts, or static photos—have become the atomic unit of online content. Short-form...
