Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
New Exhibitions Are Upending The Ways We Look At Indigenous Art
Somehow, modernist aping of Indigenous models got told as a story of increasing originality, while Indigenous adaptation of Western models was seen in terms...
How Imagineers Reimagined Burned-Out Altadena’s Community Centers
After last year’s Eaton Fire tore through town, incinerating community infrastructure and scattering residents across the region, the importance of such places has grown...
Too Close To Home: Philip Glass’ Lincoln Symphony
The specific outrages Lincoln recounts—lynchings, burnings, mob executions—belong to his era. But his insight is structural. The deepest danger of mob law, Lincoln explains,...
How Miss Piggy Became A Star
A sow in opera gloves would have been a decent gag in itself, but it soon became clear that the character was destined for...
Lessons From The Adelaide Festival Meltdown: Arts Governance Has A Ways To Go
Australia’s arts and cultural sector still has much to learn in terms of fiduciary duties and duty of care, risk and crisis management, communication...
Did Plato Espouse Ideas Leading To Totalitarianism?
In his massive The Open Society and Its Enemies—published just before his return to Europe in 1945—Popper in effect identifies Plato not just as the...
Copyright Wins: Meet The Judge Who Presided Over The Anthropic/Writers Case
Winning legal copyright battles may force tech companies to curb their blatant piracy. But copyright alone can’t halt AI’s advance. - AI Humanist
How The Arts Sector May Be Misreading The AI Revolution
"The sector is responding to AI as if it were a tool to be adopted responsibly within existing organisational life, often through skills development,...
Carmel Bach Festival Director of Development
The Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) seeks a dynamic and results-oriented Director of Development.
The Challenge For Disney’s New CEO: Become The Face Of Disney
Since Walt Disney first created the company, the CEO has been a highly visible presence not only in Hollywood and on Wall Street, but...
How GenZ Is Using AI
Our survey reveals that Gen Z’s relationship with AI is more pragmatic than personal. While headlines suggest young people treat chatbots as confidants and...
Big Drop In Female Winners At This Year’s Grammys
Our analysis reveals that women and female bands sustained a dramatic fall in winners compared to last year. They received less than a quarter...
The Most Influential Book Critic Is Found On TikTok
You will not find any submissions of his languishing in the LRB slush pile. Instead he posts on BookTok and BookTube, the social media planes concerned...
Study: For Now, Humans Beat AI In High-Level Creativity. Next Week?
The AI's "all outperformed the average human. However, when they measured the average performance of the top 50 percent of human participants, it exceeded...
The Political Left Case For Teaching The Great Books
The notion that students should mainly be acquiring “skills” or “competencies,” so prevalent in high-level discussions of education policy and in ranking school systems,...
Judge Rules For Arbitration In Philadelphia Museum Director Firing
A judge has ruled that the messy conflict between the Philadelphia Art Museum and its former director and CEO, Sasha Suda, who was dismissed in November, will go...
French Museums Would “Empty Out” Under Proposed Repatriation Law
Restituting artefacts will be crucial to improve France’s relations with its former African colonies, many of which have broken off military co-operation with Paris....
Kennicott: What’s At Stake At The Kennedy Center
It certainly seems possible that the 1971 building, designed by architect Edward Durrell Stone, could be partially or completely erased. And with it, the...
Essa-Pekka Salonen Gets A New Job
The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Monday, Feb. 2, that the Finnish conductor and composer will serve as director of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music in...
Surprise! “Melania” Did Great Box Office Its Opening Weekend
It was expected to generate in the region of $5m (£3.7m) in its first weekend, but its actual takings are "a huge start for...
So You Can Make An Audience Cry. Not Necessarily Good.
Is the direct representation of emotion to provoke emotion in fact a turn-off? - The Conversation
People Fear That Reading Is Dying. Don’t Believe It
All serious intellectual work happens on the page, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if...
Opera As “A State Of Emergency”
Created to commemorate the company’s 50th anniversary, Complications in Sue opens Wednesday with 10 composers commissioned to write eight-minute scenes. These collectively encompass the century-long life...
South African Artist Sues Her Government For Blocking Her Venice Biennale Artwork
A South African artist is suing the arts minister after he blocked her from representing the country at the Venice Biennale, having called her work...
Struggling San Antonio Philharmonic Cancels February Concerts
The news comes as the Philharmonic is embroiled in a legal dispute with the Scottish Rite over payments related to renovations of the historic...
