Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Report: For The First Time, More Americans Get Their News From Social Media Than...
“The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both...
College Radio Is Booming. Why?
Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now turning people away, shortening shows, alternating time slots, and running training programs just to keep...
Protest As A Collaborative Art Form
Global protests are not just about chanting slogans and marching anymore. What was really eye-opening was seeing different groups coming together organically and using...
The Orange County Museum Of Art “No Longer Exists” After University Merger
“OCMA as it existed no longer exists. The employees and everything else pertaining to the museum is transferred to the university.” - Los Angeles...
European Museums Report Increased Political Interference
Museum organisations across the continent reported various types of interference. Three key areas were outlined by the questionnaire. - The Art Newspaper
Long Wharf Theatre’s Artistic Director to Step Down
Padrón, who joined the theatre in 2019, led the nonprofit through a period of change that included adopting a new producing model, staging performances...
Steven Holl-Designed Bellevue Arts Museum Building Sold After Bankruptcy
BAM closed last year following financial collapse and filed for receivership, a court process akin to bankruptcy. - Seattle Times
Report: Florida Is The Most-Censored State In The US
PEN America, which has filed a lawsuit challenging removals in the state, reported Florida had more than 2,300 titles pulled from campus shelves last school...
The Creative Fertility Of Empty Space
Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in Cage’s original typography), nothing generates speech and the speaker, poetry and the...
A Short History Of Amateur Internet Culture
For most, participation in the online attention economy feels like a tax, or maybe a trickle of revenue, rather than free fun or a...
Cancel Culture Is Ascendant. But What Is It?
Some say canceling is an act of redress, a powerful display of solidarity. Others blame it on a mob. Still others have considered it...
Los Angeles’ Movie Industry Is In Freefall, Unraveling In Front Of Us
The entertainment industry is in a downward spiral that began when the dual strikes by actors and writers ended in 2023. Work is evaporating, businesses are...
What Will New York City’s Cultural Life Look Like 25 Years From Now?
As the art world grows ever more corporate and culture continues its slide into an anti-intellectual dumpster fire, we will start to see a cultural...
How Many Is Too Many Books?
I’ve worked in multiple bookstores (and have moved too many books, too many times) so I understand that 100,000 books is, indeed, a lot...
Retelling Stories At The Victoria And Albert Museum
We’re now back almost to where we were in terms of the split between foreign and U.K., too — basically 50-50. We lost a...
Exit Interview: Misty Copeland
There are so many other things that I could be doing to accomplish my longtime goal of bringing more equity and awareness of ballet’s...
Audiences For Public Readings Are Soaring
Across the country, the number of untethered readings disconnected from a specific publisher or magazine has skyrocketed over the past couple of years. These...
Public Statue Of Tina Turner Is The Latest To Be Scorned By Internet
“The way Tina’s fans are reacting really tells you something,” the mayor said. “All this passion, whether they love the sculpture or have some...
A Frank Lloyd Wright Movie?
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has recently struck a licensing deal with Hollywood production company Galisteo Media to bring Wright’s story to the big screen as a movie....
Elon Musk Says He’s Building A Wikipedia Competitor
In June, Musk raised eyebrows by promising to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors,” using his Grok...
Can’t Stop The Music: Russian Musicians Defy Putin
Musicians have become influential activists and symbols of political resistance, just as they were in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin...
SAG-AFTRA Union Responds To Use Of AI “Actor”
“The real issue at play is how our work is exhibited and what kinds of permissions and compensations we get for its use.” -...
UK Book Shops Will Now Sell E-Books To Compete With Amazon
The online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able to sell ebooks as an alternative...
Stephen King Is The Most-Banned Author In The US
PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year....
Why It’s So Expensive To Run A Show On Broadway
Ultimately what causes shows to take longer to recoup their initial capitalization is the high costs associated with operating a show. It’s well documented...
