Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Martha Graham’s Legacy At 100
This season, the Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates 100 years, and for better and worse, her early works are back in fashion. - The...
AP Offers Buyouts As It “Pivots” Away From Newspapers
“We’re not a newspaper company and we haven’t been for quite some time.” While they once accounted for the majority of the AP’s revenue,...
There Were More Layoffs Friday At The Kennedy Center
One person familiar with the cuts said much of the programming department’s work has been either terminated or redirected toward campus rentals, for which...
And Now: Designs For An Arc d’Trump
As part of Donald Trump’s legacy-building quest during his second term in office, the so-called “Arc de Trump” would stand 250ft tall, feature a...
What We Shouldn’t Learn From Mississippi’s Education Miracle
Fixing education is never that simple. If states really want to replicate our success, they need to understand that what Mississippi did wasn’t a...
The Mysterious Case Of The Van Gogh In An Ikea Bag
On September 11, 2023, the man dropped off a bright blue Ikea bag at Brand’s home. Inside, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884), which is worth...
AJ Chronicles: How to Fight the Slop
Old systems of certification are failing from every direction: technological, legal, institutional and political. So what's left when you can't just say "trust us"? You have to show your work and construct a context, making the case not by institutional credential but by demonstration.
Sitar Arts Center seeks Executive Director
The next Executive Director will lead a thriving arts education nonprofit advancing creative youth development in Washington, DC.
Fresno Arts Council Seeks Executive Director
The Fresno Arts Council seeks a strategic, collaborative, and community-centered Executive Director to lead the organization into its next chapter. Apply by May 1st!
Executive Director- Texas Ballet Theater working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Texas Ballet Theater (TBT) serving Dallas, Fort Worth, & all of North Texas, seeks a dynamic strategist to serve as its next Executive Director.
Australian State Abandons Plans To Refocus Library On “Digital Experiences”
Many of Australia’s most prominent writers, researchers and artists, along with thousands of members of the public, had expressed outrage over the proposal to...
Poets Are All About Words. What Happens When Those Words Start Slipping Away?
Because the cells that make up the mind are material, they can degrade or die. When neurons degrade, starve, or die, the essential connections...
When The AI Police Are Wrong
The Originality.ai reports on his draft, which he shared with The Times, showed that adding or deleting even just a few sentences produced wildly...
Greece’s New Law To Combat Art Theft
The bill, approved by Parliament in late January, establishes strict criminal penalties calibrated to the severity of the offense, including prison sentences ranging from...
Could (Should?) AI Replace Art Experts?
Attribution, in this sense, is not merely a scholarly exercise. It is the keystone of an economic and cultural structure. Without it, prices collapse,...
Hip-Hop Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, 68
Bambaataa and the parties where he DJ'ed swelled in popularity throughout the decade and well into the 1980s, when he released a series of...
Closing Arguments In The Live Nation Case
The heart of the case before the jury involves accusations that Live Nation has pressured artists to use the company’s promotions arm to play...
AI And The End Of Homework: AI Can Now Do All The Work
Need to take an online math quiz? Write a biology-lab report? Create a PowerPoint presentation for history class? AI can do all of this...
Pew Study On Reading: Americans Still Prefer Print Books
Print continues to be the only book format used by a majority of Americans. Roughly two-thirds of adults say they have read a physical book...
How Martin Luther Changed Music History
He realised how powerful music could be in spreading his new doctrine, that it could “incite people to do good and to teach them”....
Hirshhorn Museum Director To Become Guggenheim Museum Director
Melissa Chiu, who has led the Hirshhorn for more than a decade, is the fourth director of a Smithsonian museum to depart within the...
Getty Center To Close For A Year
The reopening of the museum, which draws about 1.3 million visitors each year, is planned for spring 2028, shortly before the Summer Olympics come...
London’s Times Newspaper Reduces Story-Count, Increases Readership
Across the whole newsroom, The Times has gone from publishing more than 200 stories a day to about 150 – a 25% cut. -...
Our Zombie Entertainment Industrial Complex
Entertainment and tech companies have gotten smarter about putting consumers into bastardized flow states that leaves people feeling drained and sad rather than challenged...
Library On The US/Canada Border Gets A Door On The Canadian Side
For decades, people in Stanstead were allowed to walk around the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, but last year the U.S. limited access. Instead...
