Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Great Culture Schism: Money, Audience and Authority
This Week's Highlights:
The Boston Symphony has been "living on borrowed time" for years, says Keith Lockhart (Boston Globe). The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis has...
Director of Production – Union Arts Center
Union Arts Center, home of ACT Contemporary Theatre & Seattle Shakespeare Company, is
excited to announce an opening for a Director of Production (DOP).
AJ Chronicles: Are Our Attention Spans Killing Culture or Reassembling It?
Depth hasn't disappeared. Perhaps it's gone lateral. The vertical architecture that produced "official" cultural memory has cracked, but the appetite for tradition — for context, for lineage, for the why — has migrated to wherever audiences and individuals can build their own context and throughlines. Sometimes those lines are deep
London’s New Banksy Statue Appears In The Middle of The Night
The sculpture depicts a man marching forward off a plinth while carrying a large, billowing flag that obscures his face. A video Banksy posted on social...
Troubled Minneapolis Theatre Puts Its Building Up For Sale
Three months after pausing its programming because of financial hardship, the Jungle Theater has put its south Minneapolis home up for sale. The company...
Lockhart: Boston Symphony Is Living On Borrowed Time
Keith Lockhart, longtime conductor of the Boston Pops, said Wednesday “there is a lot of blame to be spread around” for the turmoil that...
Are Online Worlds The Only Place Children Have Unsupervised Freedom?
According to results from a 2025 Harris Poll, 62 per cent of American kids aged eight to 12 have never walked or biked somewhere without an adult. Roughly...
What If There’s No Such Thing As Infinity?
“A lot of mathematicians just find the whole proposal preposterous,” said Joel David Hamkins(opens a new tab), a set theorist at the University of Notre...
70-Year-Old Evelyn Hart Returns To Dance With The Royal Winnipeg — 50 Years After...
“I keep waking up every day, pinching myself, thinking I’m so lucky. It feels, literally, as if I’ve just been transported back in time,”...
AI And A Permanent Underclass
Whether you talk with engineers, venture capitalists, founders or managers, or with doomers, accelerationists, lefties or libertarians, the so-called San Francisco consensus on the...
This Season’s Broadway: Familiar, Yet Different
The shows that left the biggest impression on me — “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Ragtime” and “Chess” — are well-known properties. But these warhorses...
Gallery Appoints Economist-In-Residence
“We radically, radically need something new, because old thinking isn’t getting us anywhere. In my 30 years in the cultural sector I’ve never known...
Department Chair – Art & Music (Open Rank)
The University of Texas Permian Basin's College of Arts and Humanities welcomes applications for an Associate Professor/Professor and Department Chair of Visual and Performing Arts
The State Museum of Pennsylvania – Director
The State Museum of Pennsylvania seeks a strategic, collaborative Director to lead a major transformation, inspire public engagement, and steward a premier state collection.
Idaho Legislature Changes Book Ban As Court Challenges Continue
The three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit wrote that HB 710 enables a “system of informal censorship” and potentially “encourages formal censorship through the...
How San Antonio’s Public Art Program Has Changed The City
It launched in 1996 via a city ordinance that originally earmarked 1 percent of the budget for capital improvement projects for public art. That...
A Major New Humanities Center At Oxford
Billed as Oxford’s largest and most programmatically ambitious academic project, the Schwarzman Centre yokes together seven humanities faculties, along with a 500-seat concert hall,...
EU Sanctions Director Of The Hermitage
The Council of the European Union announced on April 23 that it is formally sanctioning Mikhail Piotrovsky, the long-time director of the State Hermitage Museum in...
The Re-Relevance Of Yoko Ono
In the past decade, the defining trend among curators has been to shine a light on artists who were previously “overlooked.” Various groups who...
Differences Between Being An Arts Lover In The UK And In Australia
The experience of attending, supporting and living among the arts differs in ways that are practical, financial and social. - ArtsHub
Strategies For Fighting Misinformation
What of misinformation that has taken hold, and how can it be debunked? If the misinformation is not going to be widely shared, the best...
Chicago Arts Leaders Demand Action On “Ghost” Tickets
“Every day, patrons are being sold what they believe are valid tickets, when, in reality, they are only paying for a chance that someone...
Why We Need More Arts
Organizations that design their entire experience for reflection, response, and real conversation are doing something quietly radical. Not just presenting art, but shaping the...
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
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.
