Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
A Century Closes In A Single Day
Good Morning,
Two losses today compress a century of classical music into one obituary page. Michael Tilson Thomas, one of the most distinguished American conductors...
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.
Competitive Chess Is Wearing Down Its Champions
Life in chess has always been a struggle, never more so than today. During the two-year battle for the 2024 world chess championship, I saw...
The Best Thing About LACMA’s New Building
In a startling and largely gratifying way, LACMA has done what the poet Audre Lorde, alluding to a different but not unrelated aspect of...
Needed: A NATO Alliance For American Universities
“We need a NATO for universities,” said Lee Bollinger, president emeritus of Columbia University. “When one university is attacked, everyone commits to coming to...
What’s Really Wrong With Trump’s Arch: A Symbol Of Autocracy
What’s really wrong with Trump’s arch isn’t something that is always wrong with victory arches but, rather, something that is always wrong with all...
FCC Opens Investigation Into TV Ratings System
The FCC has launched a new inquiry into the TV ratings system, including whether issues of gender identity are being included in children’s programming without flagging...
What, Really, Will Result In The Ticketmaster/LiveNation Verdict?
“I can’t wait for the judge to get hit with a $45 ‘Verdict Convenience Fee,’ a $30 ‘Gavel Processing Fee,’ and an $80 ‘Digital...
San Diego Proposes To Cut Its Arts Budget. A Big Mistake
While this may be framed as fiscal discipline, cutting arts and culture is not a serious long-term economic strategy. It is a short-term fix...
Book Slop By Any Other Name (Or “Blake Whiting”)
Using AI tools and a pseudonym, unknown culprits are now profiting from my work and that of my colleagues. Worse, they are limiting what...
John Luther Adams On The Sound Of The World
For me, the subject of music is its sound. And in my music, I want to be in touch with sound that I haven't...
How Books Reinforced A Colonialist Mindset
The book became a dominant symbol of the age of development through the efforts of the new international institutions, and the United Nations Education...
Grappling With What A Soul Is
This soul of yours has obviously come into existence with your body. Yet equally obviously it’s not made of bodily stuff. It lasts through...
