Douglas McLennan
Executive Director – Southeastern Theatre Conference
The Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the largest network of theatre practitioners in the US, seeks service-oriented & inclusive leader to serve as its Executive Director
The Bruce Museum, Inc. Seeks Chief Operating Officer
The Bruce Museum, Inc. (the Bruce) is an American Alliance of Museums accredited institution that highlights art, science, and natural history in numerous exhibitions.
Behavioral: Why We’re Addicted To Work
Work requires and supports a certain ecology of tasks, an economy of attention. You train your mind to it. When the job’s gone, that...
The Man Who Became History-Keeper Of A Legendary Dance Mecca
Norton Owen has worked in the press office, run the summer school for students, and done development work. But along the way, he began...
Seattle Festival Canceled Over Concerns About ICE
“My biggest concern was exposing our community members that could be affected by ICE to any danger or safety issues,” said Angel-Cano, a community...
Hollywood Is Struggling. But Its CEO’s Are Making Out Like Bandits
The median compensation for media and entertainment executives for 2024 was $33.9 million, up 7% from 2023, according to figures from data company Equilar....
NYC Police Cancel Theatre Program Meant To Connect Community
For 10 years, “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” was an acting troupe born out of the killing of Eric Garner in 2014. It paired...
Does Choice Make You Free? (The Costs Of Choosing)
If choice has indeed become an end unto itself, absent a set of principles for actually making choices, then something has gone awry. -...
Norman Foster To Design Translucent Bridge For Queen Elizabeth Memorial
His translucent glass “unity bridge”, inspired by Elizabeth’s wedding tiara, is said to symbolise her as a “unifying force”. - The Guardian
FanFic Writers Battle Against A Deluge Of AI Slop
“This is something that takes time and effort and your heart and your soul, and you do this in a community. And then you’re...
Send In The Saints: Notre Dame Statues To Be Returned
The copper-coated figures, each weighing almost 150kg, escaped the blaze because they were removed from the Parisian landmark for renovation just four days before...
Man Trips, Tears Hole In 17th Century Painting In An Uffizi Gallery
While trying to emulate de’ Medici’s arm placement, the man lost his balance and rolled backwards on the balls of his feet, falling back...
Iran Moves Cultural Treasures To Safety
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization has transferred museum artifacts across the country to secure storage locations and closed museums and heritage sites until further notice,...
Arts Copywriter & Marketing Strategist
Add a highly creative, responsive, arts-obsessed marketer to your team. Versatile writer with 20+ years in marketing, arts administration, and strategy available for part-time engagement.
Teachers: How AI Deepens Our Students’ Ability To Write
In our classrooms, we challenge the misconception that AI tools serve merely as shortcuts, bypassing critical thinking and creativity. We don’t seek to pit...
MIT Student Creates New Way To Restore Art Work
Unlike traditional restoration, which permanently alters the painting, these masks can reportedly be removed whenever needed. So it's a reversible process that does not...
Finland’s Public Libraries Are Flourishing (There’s A Reason)
In the age of TikTok, Netflix and Candy Crush, it is not just Finland’s public libraries that are booming, but also demand for their physical...
How Korean Culture Became A Worldwide Phenom
Experts say the nation’s cultural wave, known as “Hallyu” in Korean, began in the late 1990s, when South Korean soaps started gaining popularity in...
Lessons About The Market At This Year’s ArtBasel
For now, Art Basel’s reputation for quality and importance in the art market continues to draw in more seasoned collectors, but that may change...
Our Technologies Keep Trying To Give Us “Experiences.” They’re Fake.
More and more, our “mediating technologies” are in the business not of enhancing our own senses to encounter the world better, but in replacing...
Climate Change Activists Fling Pink Paint On A Star Picasso Painting In Montreal
The Picasso painting, an early Blue Period portrait from the permanent collection of the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, is a star attraction in the...
New AI Arts Residencies Intend To Promote Artists Working In AI
These residencies, usually hosted by tech labs, museums, or academic centers, offer artists access to tools, compute, and collaborators to support creative experimentation with...
An Ambitious Seattle Artist Housing Initiative Falters
Artspace secured millions in public funding for affordable housing to support the arts. But instead of stemming Seattle’s creative brain drain, problems at the...
Explaining The ABBA Phenomenon (In Retrospect)
In the wake of the nineties revival, ABBA’s music has come to seem so universal—pure, uncut, lab-grade pop, purified of any particularizing influences—that it...
“Jaws” At 50 – Why It Became Iconic
Jaws has earned the “classic” epithet. It invokes certain nostalgia for cinephiles and original audiences, many of whom fondly remember their first viewing. Aside from...