Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Microsoft Co-Founder’s Billion-Dollar Art Collection To Go To Auction
The trove of blue-chip works spanning 500 years collected by Paul Allen by artists such as Jasper Johns and Paul Cézanne, will go under...
UNESCO Warns That Hagia Sofia Is Endangered
Originally constructed as a church, the Turkish government converted the structure to a mosque in 2020 in a highly controversial decision. In the years...
Data: When People Pay Attention To Ads
Findings from the research conducted across Yahoo’s digital properties showed that 53% of all ad formats studied met viewability standards, but achieved less than...
Canadian Film Awards Makes Acting Categories Gender-Neutral
Instead of four film categories that each feature five nominees for best lead actor or actress and best supporting actor or actress, two film...
Arts Funding That’s Self-Sustainable?
In essence, ArtsPay’s goal is to create a sustainable funding source for the arts, through the arts. - ArtsHub
The Decisions We Make Now Have Never Had Such Consequence
From now on, what we think as a planet is what our children get as a planet. However crucial policy and diplomacy may be, global...
A Librarian Speaks Out About “Scary” Challenges To Books
Many librarians, rightly so, are incredibly fearful for their personal safety, for their family’s safety, for their job security. They don’t feel at liberty...
A History Of Consequential Editing Errors
Literature’s history is a history of mistakes, errors, misapprehensions, simple typos. It’s the shadow narrative of expression—how we fail because of sloppiness, or ignorance,...
Study: Yes, You Can “Inoculate” People From Falling For Misinformation
In our new study we designed and tested five short videos that “prebunk” viewers, in order to inoculate them from the deceptive and manipulative techniques often...
The Moral Question Of Our Time: What Do We Owe The Future?
When we ask what we should do to benefit others, we can’t ignore the disquieting fact that the others who occupy the future may...
The Cost Of Making Art Is Surging
"Over the last six months we have seen price increases from domestic suppliers that range from 7-15% on average, with some items as...
After 33 Years Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Founding Director Retires
Criss Henderson’s departure, which had not been widely anticipated, is part of a great wave of resignations and retirements in the Chicago theater community,...
The Towering Intellect Of Richard Taruskin
People with encyclopedic minds are often paralyzed by the sheer quantity of what they know. Taruskin could step back from the crowd of facts...
Australia Is Working On A New National Arts Policy. Here Are Artists’ Demands:
Battered by rolling lockdowns, key figures in the sector have said COVID-19 disruptions exposed job insecurity, poor remuneration, and a thinning of government grants...
Arts Journalism Is On Life Support
Arts criticism, which used to nurture the innovative, is on life support. Independence of judgment and expertise are in short supply. When it comes...
What We Know So Far About Placido Domingo And The Argentine Criminal Cult
Further investigation will show if Domingo was aware of the Yoga School cult’s alleged crimes and of his friends’ connections to the group. But...
HBO Max Lays Off 70 (And Making Programmers Much Less Diverse)
One former employee says as many as 13 people of color previously in charge of developing shows like The Gordita Chronicles and the Spanish-language docuseries Menudo: Forever...
Beyond Politics: What’s Wrong With Technocrats?
The idea of surpassing politics with technical-scientific rationality such that the “the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things” is often...
Hawaii Symphony Signs A New Four-Year Contract With Its Musicians, Goes Year-Round
The new contract guarantees 18 weeks of performances in the first two years, 19 weeks in the third year, and 21 weeks in the...
Lessons From The Vanity Press Trenches
Despite my many frustrations with traditional publishing, I’ve chosen to believe in it because I think it gets a few things right. For one,...
Your Museum Has Been Implicated In A Fraud. What To Do? Why, A Task...
Shortly after federal agents descended upon the institution in June following questions about the authenticity of works in a Basquiat show, the Orlando Museum of...
Towards The Collective: Redefining Intelligence
We have become too used to thinking of intelligence as the private skill of individuals, vying against one another in a neoliberal world of...
The Internet As Anti-Humanity Machine
The intensity of our collective distraction is historically unprecedented, and for obvious reasons. Most importantly, the power players in our online experience are financially...
The Things That Eat Books
The problem with assembling a massive collection of books is that you necessarily collect the very organisms that feed on books. - Lapham's Quarterly
Major Recording Label Signs Artificial Intelligence-Generated Rapper, Then Drops It Over Backlash
FN Meka, which has over 10 million followers on TikTok, had come under heavy fire for appropriating Black culture and mocking police brutality, with...
