Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Tech Groups Sue Texas Over Online Censorship Law
When app stores determine that a user is under 18, “the law prohibits them from downloading virtually all apps and software programs and from...
On The Eve Of America’s 250th Birthday, Museums Ponder How To Tell The Nation’s...
“I am hoping that people will take away from the whole range of exhibitions that we’re doing that democracy was achieved as a result...
Just How Will The Kennedy Center Make Dance Less “Woke?”
Avoiding “wokeness,” as the conservative right defines it, may prove difficult. Ballet has long been shaped by refugees, people of color, and the queer...
Suddenly A Plethora Of Risky Theatre In New York
After a somewhat quiet few years of foreign theatre programming in New York, we are suddenly enjoying a superbloom, largely thanks to several adventurous...
Daring Heist At The Louvre Sunday Closes Museum
Their faces concealed, they rode a monte-meubles, a truck-mounted electric ladder that is a common sight on the streets of Paris, where it is...
How The Atlantic Magazine Is Flourishing While Others Are In Decline
A publication that began in 1857 is defying the trends of a troubled media industry. The Atlantic is returning to publishing monthly two decades...
Why There Was A Surge Of Art Heists In The 1970s
According to art historian Tom Flynn, the surge in heists in the 1970s "coincides with the boom of the art market". - BBC
UK Drama Schools Are Under Severe Stress
“The cost of undertaking higher education courses is increasingly a barrier for people from less well-off backgrounds. This will lead to even less diversity...
New Tax Could Be “Devastating” To London’s Music Venues
Labour’s plans are designed to target Amazon-style warehouses, with the cash raised going to lower the business rates for smaller high street businesses. But...
UK’s Opposition Greens And Reform Parties Are Running On (Very Different) Culture Issues
Support for both parties is defined by cultural issues. In the case of Reform, by the culture war around immigration and national identity; in...
How Artists Are Mobilizing A Resistance
Among them is The People vs Project 2025, a new nationwide movement to mobilise artists and cultural workers through co-ordinated live and streaming performances. -...
Just How Do We Measure The Complexity Of AI?
How do we assess whether AI is “reasoning” like humans do? Is it “truly intelligent”—but what does that mean? Even if we don’t understand...
The Rise Of France’s Private Art Foundations
‘Luxury needs this link to the world of culture, because that is what gives it its nobility, its legitimacy, its roots,’ says Jean-Michel Tobelem,...
Data: Humanities Graduates Do Very Well In The Job Markets
Humanities majors in Minnesota are as likely to be employed as are engineering or business majors, according to the American Academy of Arts and...
British Library Returns Oscar Wilde’s Library Card — 125 Years After His Death
On June 15, 1895, the Irish poet and playwright was excluded from the British Museum’s Reading Room, the precursor to the British Library. The...
Chief Financial & Operating Officer – Riverside Theatre | In Partnership with DHR Global
Riverside Theatre is seeking a Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer to help lead the organization through a period of growth and transformation.
Why Is CBS Making So Many Scripted Shows When Other Networks Are Retreating?
Given that the Tiffany Network has been home to the most-watched new series for the past nine TV seasons in a row, they've earned...
How Social Media has Turned Everything Into Television
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached...
How OpenAI Has Played Hollywood
Among the discrepancies: the treatment of likenesses versus intellectual property. Tellingly, some execs were told an opt-in would be required for both. Others were...
Our Long History Of Artificial Intelligizing
If philosophy formalized reasoning, literature explored its consequences. Stories about artificial beings reveal the hopes and terrors of living with intelligent doubles. Western traditions...
Abundance Of Choice Is Our Modern Religion. It Has Some Serious Downsides
Philosophers and political theorists say it promotes selfish individualism and discourages collective action around issues that affect us all. And sociologists add that societies...
Royal Ballet Teams Up With Blind Artist To Experience Movement Differently
The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that visually impaired members of the audience can follow the action on stage. Now the...
Europe’s New Soccer Stadiums Are The Cathedrals Of Our Time
The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said: “A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.” For much of their history, football...
The Archaeology Of Unearthing The World’s Oldest Stories
Nowadays, we can unearth bones, extract DNA, even map ancient migrations, but only in myths can we glimpse the inner lives of our forebears—their...
Daniel Day-Lewis: Theatre Is An Elite Art Form For Privileged People
Theatre in itself is an elite cultural form. There are of course exceptions, many wonderful theatre companies that manage to put on affordable performances...
