Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Backlash Mounts To Met Gala Because of Bezos Sponsorship
Opposition to the Bezoses started almost immediately after they were announced as financial sponsors in February, and comes amid a surging anti-rich sentiment nationwide and in...
Mass Author Walkout Imperils Prestigious Australian Publisher
At least 17 authors have ended their contracts with UQP or vowed not to work with the publisher again, after a series of events...
Study: Western Music Is Becoming Simpler And More Repetitive
A recent study found that Western music is not only starting to sound more alike but is also becoming less structurally complex than in the past....
Could The Met’s Costume Institute Survive The Los Of Its Gala?
Along with this year’s inauguration of the new Condé M. Nast Galleries in the Great Hall, which will house the Costume Institute’s blockbuster shows, the endowment...
Study: The Links Between A Talent For Math And A Talent For Music
A study of young adults with backgrounds in mathematics or music found that individuals with better mathematical abilities tended to have better musical abilities...
ABC Explores Evidence Classical Music Is Thriving
As Australians vote for the greatest classical music of all time, we look at who is listening, how classical music is evolving, and how...
The Met Gala Proclaims Fashion As Art. Is It?
So, is fashion art? And if so, at what point do clothes transform from something practical to something artistic? - The Conversation
Boston Globe Editorial Weighs In On Boston Symphony Mess
The memo insisted that “business as usual will no longer suffice,” and that to maintain “the BSO excellence and artistic stature requires that we...
So Maybe That AI Bubble Wasn’t Real After All
The worry that the country is building too many data centers now coexists with the fear that we won’t have enough of them to...
MIT Releases New Software Tool For Design Of String Instruments
It’s a computer simulation tool that can capture the precise physics of the instrument and even reproduce a realistic sound of a plucked string,...
3-Alarm Fire At Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre This Morning
It is unknown if the fire has had or will have any affect on the production or future performances. No one was inside the...
When an Oscar Becomes a Weapon
Good Morning,
A TSA agent reportedly stopped Pavel Talankin — director of Mr. Nobody Against Putin — because the Oscar in his luggage "could be used as...
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.
