Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Riyadh walks, Venice cuts, Berlin stalls
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The Met Opera's $200 million Saudi deal is dead — Riyadh walked from an arrangement that would have sent the company to perform...
LACMA’s New Building: What’s the purpose of art in a Museum?
LACMA proposes a new model for museums. For a long time now, context has been an essential deliverable when you go to a museum. It’s how meaning gets constructed. Just what was so remarkable about the way Constable painted light, and how did it have an effect on the painters
I Am Anti-AI. How Do We Get It Out Of Schools?
At times, I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives...
The Ideas Challenging This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
This year’s prize arrives at a moment when sculpture, funding structures and art education are becoming unusually entangled. - The Conversation
Blame It On The Culture
Someone observes a behavioral difference between groups or countries. They can’t immediately identify the mechanism. So, they invoke “culture” as an explanation or, even...
After Implosion Of The Adelaide Book Festival, A New Director
Both Newcastle and Adelaide made the decision to invite Abdel-Fattah but only one imploded over it. So what went differently for Rosemarie Milsom? -...
Does Reading Help?
Books do not create a higher form of conversation but instead allow for a unique ‘fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of...
Cutting The Baby In Half? Venice Biennale Jury Says It Won’t Consider Russia Or...
The Venice Biennale‘s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International...
Remembering MTT
Thomas was also an example of an artistic leader serving as a guiding star for an entire geographic area - emphasizing the importance of audiences...
The Complicated Calculations Behind FOMO
By recognising the social orientation of the experience, we can take a step towards understanding the nature of FOMO and what it can do...
How Long Should Movies Have To Wait In Theatres Before They Go To Streaming?
Maybe the middle ground was 45 days. Because at CinemaCon 2026, every single studio, not just Universal, reiterated its commitment to windows of at least that...
Send In The Pool Guy: Trump Wants To Replace The Capitol Mall Reflecting Pool
He complained that the 2,030-foor by 167-foot pool, which was built in 1922 between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, “never looked great” because...
Director of People & Culture – Oregon Shakespeare Festival via TOC Arts Partners
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, OR seeks a Director of People & Culture to join the team.
A Backlash To Biennales?
But with the boom came backlash: the suspicion that biennales were above all an excuse for a tote-bag-wearing international art crowd to descend on...
Warner Shareholders Approve Sale To Paramount
Shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery voted to sell the company to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance for $31 a share in cash at a special virtual meeting Wednesday morning. The...
Musicians Are Using AI At All Levels. They Don’t Want To Talk About It
Tech companies with billion-dollar valuations are extracting value from copyrighted music on the internet and selling it as a service: making music-making easier and,...
A 60s Art Experiment That Redefined How We Think About Creativity
The discovery of this “problem-finding” creative process was a seminal moment in creativity research. In the decades since, countless researchers have shown that many of the...
Hundreds Of Musicians Call For Eurovision Boycott Of Israel
This year’s list is organized by the “No Music for Genocide” initiative, which also calls on anti-Israel artists to have their music geo-blocked inside...
Another Human Threshold Crossed: Robot Beats Elite Ping Pong Players
Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost the two it played...
How AI Is Already Changing How People Read
“I believe AI can simultaneously solve the problem of not knowing what to read and the difficulty of maintaining consistent reading habits.” Subscription-based reading...
A Pioneering Greek Arts Institution Calls It Quits: “We’ve Done What We’ve Set Out...
NEON goes out on a high note after 14 successful years of exhibitions, performances and initiatives that enriched Greece’s art scene. - Ekathimerini
V&A East Museum Opens With A Very Different Lens On Art
V&A East’s boxy, beige facade, pierced by pointed shards of window, was concocted by Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey and has received mixed reviews. Its futuristic appeal does,...
30-Year Copyright Case In EU Finally Settles
The initial court ruling "was subsequently appealed, overturned and referred on several occasions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), resulting in a three-decade long...
Layoffs At Artnet And Artsy
Days after layoffs at Artnet and Artsy shook the art world, investor and owner Andrew E. Wolff has offered his clearest explanation yet for the cuts, framing them as part...
Chief Philanthropy Officer
The Chief Philanthropy Officer will be an inspiring manager who shares a vision for what opera can and should be.
