Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Non-Professional Actors At The Heart Of Movies
The prominence of movies featuring nonprofessionals is no surprise: directors may make movies what they are, but actors are what viewers see, and these...
Sorry, “Guerilla Teaching” Isn’t Allowed In Smithsonian Galleries
He was at the Portrait Gallery as an educator but also as co-founder of Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, a group that last year...
Pompeii Gets a Digital Makeover: Now With Less Ash
Forget the petrified citizens – new 3D renderings show Pompeii as the thriving metropolis it was before Vesuvius crashed the party. Because apparently we...
Woman Sues Meta, YouTube Over Social Media Use
Wearing a pink dress and cardigan, Kaley told the jury that she started watching YouTube videos at age 6 and made an Instagram account...
Congressional Republicans Propose National Book Banning
House Resolution 7661 transforms grassroots library battles into national policy, giving censors sweeping powers to purge school and public collections. Democracy's reading rooms become...
Where Has The Sex Gone? Our Literature Is Getting Cleaner
Literary writers have other demands to satisfy. In general, readers come to their books seeking not an escape from reality but perspective on it....
A Dystopian Story About An AI-Ridden 2028 Sparked A $200 Billion Crash Of The...
A speculative blog post about 2028's AI-choked economy just vaporized $200 billion in market value. When your dystopian fiction gets confused for a Goldman...
A Real Shit Show: Berlinale’s Director Faces Axe Over Israel Stance
Tricia Tuttle discovers that running a major film festival means navigating more landmines than a war correspondent. Her crime? Apparently failing to muzzle artists...
Netflix Backs Out Of Offer For Warner; Paramount Wins
Netflix said that it would not raise its offer to counter a higher bid made earlier this week by Mr. Ellison’s company, Paramount Skydance,...
Cappella Romana Founder Alexander Lingas Steps Down After 35 Years
In the decades since its founding concerts, the Portland-based professional vocal ensemble has gone on to become the premier exponent and explorer of the...
How Awards Have Defined The Canadian Music Industry
National arts award ceremonies like the Junos are part of a cultural system that help define who belongs, who succeeds and what counts as “Canadian” in...
A Rebirth In Critic-ing?
If the review sections of newspapers are closing down, there’s a sense that this moment could make room for a meatier, weirder kind of...
LA’s New Golden Age Of Museums
This shift to the West Coast has long been driven by the region’s many art schools, including the ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts,...
London’s Globe Theatre Launches “Environmental Playwright” Prize
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it...
Study: Gen Z’s View Of Masculinity Is Changing
The study surveyed 1,500 tweens, teens and young adults, ages 10-24, finding that these groups want to see boys and men on TV and...
The Existential Challenges Facing Disney’s New CEO
There’s a phrase that’s used around the Magic Kingdom to describe this phenomenon: “the Josh Effect.” D’Amaro — tall, slender and silver-haired — has a politician’s ability to make anyone he encounters feel...
The Qualities Of Ethics Required For Good Government
In a world increasingly defined by distance, between citizen and state, between policy and experience, between law and justice, Rammohun Roy offers a reminder...
Did This LA Arts Icon Personally Profit From Foundation Grants?
They allege Judy Baca personally benefited from a $5-million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to expand “The Great Wall,” sold the project’s archives to the...
Misty Copeland Recovering From Hip Replacement Surgery
“A few months ago, I stepped off the stage after my final bow with @abtofficial, closing one chapter and unknowingly preparing for the next,”...
Just What/Where Is The Leisure Class?
We need to work, because survival demands it, and we need to rest, because work is tiring, but are those two possibilities really exhaustive?...
AMC Says It Will Continue To Close Movie Theatres
For the company’s Q4 2025, which ended on December 31, AMC reported total revenue of $1.28 billion. That’s a drop of 1.4% from the $1.3 billion...
How Instrumentalization Devalues The Meaning Of Art
It is no longer enough for universities to say that their programmes allow you to explore some of the most fundamental questions of existence....
Republican Attorneys General Oppose Netflix Warner Deal
“We, the undersigned Attorneys General, write to express our concerns that the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers will likely result in undue...
How To Declutter Your Attention
The aim is cognitive clarity via fewer inputs, distilled choices, and settings centred around presence and focus. While design minimalism emphasizes appearance and object...
Longtime MTT Partner Josh Robison, 79
For more than four decades, Robison was a constant at Tilson Thomas' side - not only as spouse but as manager, adviser and strategic...
