Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
“Toy Story” Is One Of Disney’s Most Dependable Franchises
Analysts expect the fifth installment of Disney/Pixar’s “Toy Story” franchise will pull in at least $150 million in the U.S. and Canada, with some...
Debating The Color Of The National Mall Reflecting Pool
The Reflecting Pool now evokes the joy of a Green Bay Packers victory. Or a high-school prank. Or St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago.It most...
David Hockney Was Working Class. Artists From The Working Class Have A Much More...
Through policies and schemes, previously unheard-of opportunities for people of his background began to open up, without which he would not have become the...
What Literature Teaches Us About Neurodivergence
Far from being a modern phenomenon, neurodivergence has a long history. In other words, people whose ways of thinking, sensing or behaving differed from...
Ballmer And Bezos And Benioff: Mega-donors To The Obama Library
The foundation collected six donations of $50 million-plus, including one anonymous contributor. - Chicago Sun-Times
The Woman Trying To Rebuild Oakland’s Arts Program
Oakland currently allots its entire arts community only $300,000 in grants — in contrast to the combined $29 million that Grants for the Arts and...
The Meanings Of David Foster Wallace
The Bible warns that “all craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated.” American culture, perhaps in an effort to stave off potential embarrassment, often...
Director of Production, The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA)
The Director of Production provides executive-level strategic leadership, operational direction, and organizational oversight for all production and technical services across a complex, performing arts center.
The Philosophical Consequences Of Simulations
Students tend to have a low tolerance for fanciful hypotheses and abstruse thought experiments. All but the most philosophically inclined roll their eyes at...
New Brain Study Reveals How Bilingual People Process Language
When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance, bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are...
Some Dance Forms Are Deeply Culturally Coded. How Can They Be Reinterpreted In Contemporary...
Choreographic researcher and artist Nazira Yerbolkyzy is among a new generation of practitioners working to reframe this relationship by exploring how traditional movement philosophies...
Who Owns The Stage Now?
Good Afternoon,
Byron Allen built a media empire on one insight: the money is in owning the content, not performing it (Los Angeles Times). Several...
Rex Reed Hated Everything
In my ongoing conversations with him, along with the despairingly pungent emails he regularly sent from his AOL address Rex seemed to interpret the...
Cincinnati Opera Launches Major New Opera Initiative
“Lalovavi” launches Cincinnati Opera’s Black Opera Project, a $6 million three-opera endeavor. The first of its kind, the project aims to tell Black American stories of...
Misty Copeland On Drive and Motivation
What people do not always see is the aspect of drive that is perhaps the hardest to name — the will to keep going...
Highmark Mann Center Opens On A Roll
The Highmark Mann opened five decades ago as the Robin Hood Dell West, the local summer retreat for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and it has...
Why Older People Are Happier, And What We Can Learn From Them
Research spanning 145 countries has identified a U-shaped happiness-age curve, whereby self-reported wellbeing tends to dip in mid-adulthood and peak in old age. - Psyche
Generational Change In Australia’s First Nations Dance
Australian dance is undergoing a generational transfer of leadership. At the same time, First Nations choreography has never been more visible. Yet visibility and...
Publishers Sue Website For Pirating
Fresh off of last month’s victory against pirate web site Anna’s Archive, 13 publishers across all segments of the industry have allied to sue yet another...
Why Movie Production Is Leaving Hollywood
Everything costs more in L.A., starting with labor, due to the high cost of living and elaborate union agreements. Other states and countries have...
Dance Jumps Into Lincoln Center In A Big Way
In the years since American Dance Theater, the descendants of modern dance have performed at Lincoln Center with varying frequency. But the new festival...
Why Fox Bought Roku
Ever since the old Fox sold off most of its entertainment assets to Disney, Lachlan Murdoch — son of Rupert and CEO of Fox...
Executive Director – Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley
Cantabile Youth Singers seeks a entrepreneurial Executive Director to partner with artistic leadership, build organizational capacity, and expand support for its acclaimed youth music programs.Seeking
AJ Chronicles: There’s no Shortage of Art. We Ran Out of Ways to Find...
The major disconnect of contemporary culture: Findability has detached from the ability of traditional cultural narratives to agree on what's important. Instead of art evolving in coherent strands that are traceable and linear, there are now multiple cultural universes, each with their own languages and conventions. Each has its own creative masters, famous within that universe. But from the outside, these adjacent universes are all but invisible and their languages opaque.
The Art Commissioned By The Obama Presidential Library
For the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago, Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned original works by 30 artists from diverse backgrounds, a bold move never...
