Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Spain’s Culture Minister Refuses Transfer Of Guernica For Basque Loan
The Basque government is already familiar with the Reina Sofía’s condition report—which deems the painting too fragile to travel—and that it is instead requesting...
HarperCollins’ Canadian Side-Hustle. Be Wary.
There is every reason to be wary when a foreign-owned corporation stakes a claim to defending Canada’s cultural sovereignty, but the case of HarperCollins...
LACMA Reinvented: Inside LA’s New Museum
No L.A. institution has taken as risky a leap in this century as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With the opening of...
Eco-Dystopian Novels From Africa And Asia Push The Form
Speculative and futuristic visions of environmental calamity are being imagined globally through environmental fiction. Eco-dystopian novels can help people process their fears or mourn...
Wrestling For The Soul Of The Machine
This is a war over whether technology will merely optimise calculations or eliminate a quintessentially human element such calculations can’t capture. But beneath these...
As Canadian Universities Scale Back Music Programs, The Impacts Are Felt In Cities
Research on cultural ecosystems suggests that institutional collaboration is crucial to sustain vibrant arts production. This is especially the case as music and the arts face increasing...
The Market For Non-Fiction Reporting In Books Is Contracting
These developments suggest a rough future for a certain kind of writing: nonfiction that’s based on reportage more than on personal experience or celebrity—a.k.a....
The Scholar Who Traced The Roots Of American Music Back To Africa
A chance encounter fifty years ago "helped fuel a lifelong quest: mapping a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly...
Inside The World Of Family Vlogs
The most successful and lucrative family vlogs are indiscreet almost by definition—and yet the wrong kind of indiscretion can derail the whole gravy train. -...
When LiveNation Came To Irvine California
For a jury that has spent weeks listening to experts debate market definitions, vertical integration and other fine points of antitrust law, the testimony...
From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture
The first audience for your art is becoming a machine. The question isn't just how to optimize for that machine, it's what you give it to say, and whether what it says is worth a conversation.
Vice President of Marketing and Communications- Brooklyn Academy of Music via TOC Arts Partners
BAM seeks a forward-thinking, and tenacious Vice President of Marketing and Communications.
How Two Recent AI Publishing “Scandals” Will Changing The Books Industry
Stories like Shy Girl and The New York Times’ profile of AI romance author Coral Hart, who boasted of using AI to write and self-publish 200...
How The Humanities Declined Into Crisis
A combination of technological, economic, political, and cultural forces, at work both within and without the university, had by the early 2020s effectively pummeled...
Duchamp’s Ideas A Century Ago That Still Have Us Debating
I think Duchamp got at something vital about Western culture over the previous 400 years: that an object didn’t count as “art” because of its...
An Essay That Explains Why The New York Art World No Longer Works
Titled “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art” and published by October, Kline’s essay is a despairing portrait of the city’s art scene....
Chicago’s Uptown Theatre Gets A New $46M Home
For almost three decades, the ambitious, history-centered company had to make do with the second-floor of a 110-year-old church building in Lake View —...
The City Of Boston Gets A New Arts Chief
“Many cities are facing affordability crises, lack of access to physical space for creative work, and tighter budgets. It’s more important than ever to...
Inside The Project To Remake Paris’ Catacombs
Over the past five months, architects, designers, technicians and masons have been renovating this vast tomb — installing new lighting and ventilation systems, restoring...
Why It’s So Difficult To Get Our Heads Around AI
Artificial intelligence is both a technology and a theology, and in its latter aspect, it too often resembles a doctrinal dispute among an assortment...
Justice Department Settles Investigation Into Broadway Touring
The Justice Department has quietly resolved a yearslong investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by a major player in the lucrative touring market for Broadway...
Alternative Conservative Entrance Exam Gains Traction In US Schools
The CLT stands out because it mainly features passages from noted philosophers, religious scholars, scientists and authors in the canon of Western literature, including...
Can An Artist Retreat Over Clay Pots Suggest A Direction For AI?
Es Devlin is calling order on a group of artists, AI researchers, spiritual leaders, academics and experts from global tech gathered at the kilns...
Pepsi Pulls Sponsorship Of UK Festival To Protest Booking Of Kanye West. Now The...
Keir Starmer joined criticism of the festival at the weekend, saying it was “deeply concerning” that West had been booked to perform “despite his...
It’s Our Phones That Have Caused Our Brains To Rot. Not AI
Even if you spend very little time online, there’s little you can do outside the logic of the internet. It is a force that...
