Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Finalists For This Year’s International Booker Prize
In a moment in which international relations are dominating news headlines around the globe, three of these shortlisted novels explore pivotal moments in world...
Figuring Out What Kanye Is Taking From What
Many of the tracks resemble fragments or sketches, with bits of singing and rapping that sound unusually tentative, as if Ye isn’t quite sure...
How Denmark’s Museum Funding Has Shifted To Visitor Numbers
There are now three criteria for an institution to secure—and retain—government subsidies. It must welcome a minimum of 10,000 annual visitors; have a minimum...
Indigenous Australian Broadcaster Rhoda Roberts, 66
Roberts dedicated her life to sharing the stories of her people, preserving and promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through language, dance and...
Gold Toilet Appears On The National Mall
This toilet, spray-painted gold and set on a faux-marble pedestal, is the latest in a series of protest artworks and installations taking aim at...
Hollywood’s Job Market Is Collapsing
Hollywood studios are making significantly fewer movies and television shows than they did just a few years ago. The ones they do make are...
Trump Unveils Plans For His Presidential Library In Miami
A red, white and blue spire sits atop the multistory tower. The library is set to feature golden escalators, a golden statue of the...
New York’s Iconic Symphony Space To Get A Makeover
When the venue reopens in 2028, after a 15-month closure that begins at the end of this year, an updated version of its signature...
Financial and Administrative Officer – Cincinnati Opera
Cincinnati Opera is in Search of Chief Financial and Administrative Officer.
Big Art Heist In Italy
Four hooded thieves forced their way through a first floor door in the museum’s Villa of Masterpiece overnight between March 22 and 23, but...
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...
