Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Meet The Voice Of Romantasy
He's the voice of some of the genre's most famous MMCs: aka male main characters, aka the internet's favorite "book boyfriends." His deep, resonant...
Flush With Cash, Universal Music Announces Share Buyback Plan
“Our strong balance sheet and cash generation gives us the flexibility to repurchase shares, while preserving ample capacity to invest in our growth strategy,...
Bringing Indigenous Culture To The Billboards Of Times Square
By bringing this ancestral dance to Times Square’s glowing billboards, Jeffrey Gibson turns a space of mass consumption into one of visibility and spiritual...
When Art Meets Pantone: The Science of Seeing Red
What happens when something as intuitive as color gets the full industrial treatment? Turns out defining 'blue' requires lab coats, corporate committees, and aesthetic...
HBO Max UK Launch: Meet The New Boss
Streaming's rebel phase is officially over. HBO Max's confused British debut—complete with licensing tangles, bundling mysteries, and consumer bewilderment—proves digital platforms have become everything...
Bridgerton Finally Gives Its Diversity Some Actual Drama
After seasons of pretty faces in period costumes, the Netflix hit discovers that meaningful representation requires more than just colorblind casting—it needs actual storylines...
Artists Developed Nuclear Photography (Results May Vary)
Slow War Against the Nuclear State excavates the visual complicity between art and annihilation. These cultural archaeologists prove that the camera didn't just capture...
Artists Cast Themselves As Humanity’s Last Stand
A flamenco guitarist and juggler explain why they're the antidote to our tech-flattened souls. Because apparently what civilization really needs is more passionate strumming...
The Design Errors In Trump’s White House Ballroom
The hurried reviews, with construction cranes already swiveling above the White House grounds, are an abrupt departure from how new monuments, museums and even...
AJ Chronicles: Why Tech Infrastructure is the Most Important Arts Story of the Year
The infrastructure carrying culture to audiences — legal, technical, financial, corporate — was not built for the creative sector. It was built by and for technology companies, telecommunications firms, and entertainment conglomerates.
Manitoba Considers Banning Algorithmic Pricing
Once firms get consumers used to being sorted, profiled, and priced differently, the practice starts to feel inevitable. But it is not. It is a choice...
Why Destroying Cultural Sites In War Is Bad Strategy
Ignoring cultural property protections runs counter to a lesson many military forces, including the United States, have come to recognize: that safeguarding cultural heritage...
Why Trump Is Going After Cultural Institutions
One thing that has really struck me is that ordinary Americans are far less interested in fighting about history than it might seem. -...
AI Is Forcing Us To Grapple With Meaning
When Wittgenstein referred to the “beginning of the end of humanity,” he was not envisioning sci-fi cataclysms... He was referring to what he called...
New School Plans To Cut 15 Percent Of Its Faculty
Amid a projected $48 million deficit largely attributed to enrollment decline, the New School’s upcoming layoffs come as the newest development in the university’s...
The Progress Paradox: Are You Coal Or Are You A Horse?
Searches for the phrase job apocalypse are spiking. Polls show that voters are beginning to freak out. But there’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask...
Reality Is Breaking Down
Insulating yourself from inconvenient facts is not an effective long-term life strategy, even for someone powerful enough to externalize the costs of most of...
An Ethical Path For AI Art?
There is understandable fear among artists that artificial intelligence will plunder their work and render already-difficult careers impossible. This sets up the question: Is...
Despite War, Middle East Art World Seems “Normal”
As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week, neighboring Gulf states, a hub of much of the region’s contemporary art production, are...
Why Are London Theatre Tickets So Much Cheaper Than Broadway’s?
West End theater tickets are regularly less expensive than on Broadway, even for the same shows. Last year, the average West End ticket price was...
The Oscars Are Moving To Downtown LA
Beginning in 2029 — the same year the Oscar telecast moves to YouTube — the Academy Awards will move to downtown Los Angeles, to...
Kennedy Center Started Laying Off Staff Today
Multiple departments were affected — including programming, development, advertising, marketing and the office of the president — according to multiple people at the center. -...
I Wanted To Be A Critic. It Doesn’t Exist Anymore
This is how I came to understand that the relationship between what we see and what we know—the art of noticing— is a sophisticated...
Hauser & Wirth Partner Leaves To Start An Artist Management Agency
After 16 years helping build one of the most powerful galleries in the world, Cristopher Canizares is stepping away from Hauser & Wirth to...
Can Bluey Bring On A New Generation Of Classical Music Fans?
All we have to do is keep kids and families watching Bluey, and they will playfully and profoundly enjoy more classical tunes than the...
