Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Minnesota Dance Theatre Director Steps Down After 30 Years
After nearly 30 years as artistic director of Minnesota Dance Theatre, Lise Houlton is passing the reins. And it will be kept in the...
What Shocking Sudden Losses By One Of The Art World’s High End Dealers Says...
These are unusual blows to one of the largest and most smoothly run art businesses in the world, and they have incited plenty of...
Study: Australians Have Slowed Down Their Consumption Of Arts Events
Among them, this year’s survey finds that while the same proportion of Australians attended events and festivals as in 2019 and 2022, they are...
The Enduring Power Of Fairies
The Flower Fairies' influence has endured: they continue to be popular around the world – big in Japan and in Italy, where Gucci released...
Milwaukee Symphony Musicians Agree To New Contract – Pay Raise And Rethinking Auditions
The two-year contract includes pay raises, a reduction of one-week in the schedule and a promise to reconsider how auditions for the orchestra are...
The Right To Privacy? Is The American Government Spying On Library Readers?
"I was certain the FBI didn’t have some mysterious database of all U.S. libraries that could spit out the borrower record of any one...
I Come Not To Praise The Internet Novel
The internet, or more precisely, the smartphone, poses a problem for novels. If a contemporary novel wants to seem realistic, or true to life,...
YouTube Blocks Russell Brand From Earning Income From His YouTube Channel
A spokeswoman for YouTube said in an email that Mr. Brand, whose channel on the platform has 6.6 million subscribers, was suspended for violating...
How London Is Trying To Help Low-Income Artists
A long-term cultural programme in Thamesmead in south-east London has provided artists with low-rent studios and access to affordable housing. Since it began five...
Melbourne Gets A New Performing Arts Center
The venue will house a proscenium theatre with a capacity of 600, as well as a 200-seat studio theatre, two rehearsal studios and function...
Why AI Isn’t So Great At Designing Cities (Yet)
“The good modern city doesn’t exist in any dataset that will be sampled by AI. What AI will sample is Chinese cities and cities...
Institutional Critique: Jeremy Harris And The Reevaluation Of Theatre
As the initial shock of the pandemic gave way to a reëvaluation of racial and other societal arrangements, Jeremy Harris became a kind of...
His Work Was Seen By Millions, But He Was Invisible To The Artworld
He was among the most visible artists of the ’70s, with millions seeing his paintings on television each week; yet his work was excluded...
Amazon Will Limit Number Of Books Authors Can Upload To Combat AI Submissions
KDP said that, while it has not yet “seen a spike in our publishing numbers,” it is lowering the number of new titles users...
Take The Money And Run: Museum Sues Artist For Submitting Empty Frames After Being...
The museum provided about 532,000 krone (£61,500) from its reserves to recreate artworks as well as an artist’s fee of about 40,000 krone. But...
Alabama High School Band Leader Tased And Arrested When He Refused To Stop His...
The altercation happened after a Thursday football game as police were trying to clear the stadium. - AL.com
Musicians Sold Their Song Catalogs To Investment Funds For Big Money. Those Investments Haven’t...
Hipgnosis admitted that they sold these songs at 17.5% below their estimated “fair market value.” This added to the already widespread suspicion that current claims of...
Eric Deggans: Streaming Broke TV And Streaming Is Now Broken. Now An Opportunity
The future of the medium – and America – lies in widening our ideas of whose stories are important and making those stories accessible,...
Red States Are Attacking America’s Oldest Library Association
The American Library Association is facing a partisan firefight unlike anything in its almost 150-year history. - Washington Post
How I Lost My Desire To Read
I blithely assumed reading would be mine to reclaim when the right moment arrived. But when I finally looked toward my bookshelves, I found...
In These Times: Three Books Chronicle The Dance Life In New York
“Manhattan’s filled with struggling dancers/instructors running a marathon merry-go-round of rehearsals, gyms, private homes. Our Unlimited Metrocards are swiped up to twenty times a...
How Putin Eliminated Theatre In Russia
New legislation has banned the use of obscenity in literary texts, theatre and cinema. They’ve also censored blasphemy, forbidden the promotion of “non-traditional” (a euphemism...
A Major Ancient Cave Art Discovery
“Once we began the proper systematic survey, we realized we were facing a major cave art site, like the ones that can be found...
Report: Majority Of US Museum Workers Want To Quit
Two-thirds of museum workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, if not the field altogether, according to a survey out this month. The top...
No More History Musicals From Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I’ll give you a scoop: I don’t think I’m writing another history musical ever f - - - - - g again. You think...
