Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
How The First Indigenous Work Commissioned By A Major Dance Company Came To Be
It’s part of an effort by the Royal Winnipeg, Canada’s oldest professional ballet company, to foster meaningful reconciliation with the country’s Indigenous people —...
How Anthropic Scanned And Destroyed Millions Of Books Into Its AI Model
Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off...
National Parks Pull Historical Signs And Displays To Comply With New Trump Directives
Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native...
How Do We Compete When “Excellence” Is No Longer The Quality That Stands Out?
The question is no longer just "How do we play Beethoven better?" but "How do we survive as a cultural institution in a digitized,...
Understanding The Trade In Culture Between The US And Canada
In 2023, the United States accounts for roughly two-thirds of all cultural exports ($18.1 billion, or 67%) and imports ($22.2 billion, or 62%). Canada...
Too Much TV? Let’s Think About What’s At Stake
I can’t imagine saying to my son that TV kills brain cells, but I do think it — or fear it. Our language might...
How El Sistema Has Survived During Venezuela’s Turmoil
Eduardo Méndez acknowledges that running El Sistema with the political and social backdrop of recent years has been challenging. - NPR
Report: Financial Pressure Have Museums Rethinking Strategies
Over 50% of the AAM survey’s respondents reported fewer visitors than in 2019 and 29% reported “declines tied to weakened travel and tourism and/or...
Culture Change: Santa Fe Ties Its Minimum Wage To Cost-Of-Living
Starting next year, Santa Fe will become the first U.S. city to explicitly link the high cost of housing to the minimum wage. -...
New York Theatre Ballet seeks Managing Director
Managing Director opportunity at NYTB, leading growth, operations, partnerships, governance, and teams, delivering expansion, innovation, and compliance across the dance community.
The Allure Of “Lost” Civilizations
Who doesn’t want to know how a lost civilization got lost, or where it might be hiding? The trouble is that what gets touted...
The UK Has Announced £1.5B Investment In The Arts. So…
A £1.5 billion investment is welcome news for a sector buffeted by years of austerity and inflation (not to mention the long tail of...
Lately We’ve Praised Boredom. But Maybe It’s Not Really The Path To Resetting
You might think that there’s so much at our fingertips now, surely boredom is gonna go away. But what we’re finding is that it’s...
How Book Reviews Became Book Slop
Lydia Kiesling reflects on how book coverage devolved into bloated, AI-adjacent list culture, tracing her own path through The Millions and the broader media...
Philadelphia Sues Trump Over Removal Of Memorial Of Enslaved People
Workers on Thursday removed the exhibit, which included biographical details about the nine people enslaved by the Washingtons at the presidential mansion. Just their...
Adults Should Maybe Use Their Phones Less? It’s Really A Matter Of Culture
Ultimately, this is an issue not of screens versus humans, but of how families navigate connection in a world where attention is mediated by...
Good Decisions Are About Culture (Which AI Doesn’t Have)
The most consequential decisions in business have never been about processing information faster or detecting patterns more efficiently. The most salient concerns are questions...
Wikipedia Has Been Cataloging The “Tells” Of AI Writing. Here’s A List
The source material is a guide from WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who have been hunting AI-generated articles since late 2023. -...
Salman Rushdie On Violence And Culture
“For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy,” he added. “The uncultured and ignorant and tyrannical don’t like it. And they take steps against it,...
Wikipedia At 25: What The Internet Can Be
Perhaps the greatest compliment to Wikipedia at 25 years old is the fact that, if the fascists can’t buy it, then they’re going to...
AJ Chronicles: This Week in the Great Culture Shift
This week, ArtsJournal looked at thousands of stories and collected 118 stories across culture. This is one person's attempt to make sense of them.
Comic Con Bans AI Art
“Material created by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show. If there are questions, the Art Show...
Curator Resigns After Nan Goldin Acquisition Voted Down
A senior curator and two collections committee volunteers have resigned their posts at the Art Gallery of Ontario after the institution voted against acquiring a new...
Dallas Opera Raises Record $54M
More than 100 donors contributed to the campaign, with recent significant gifts from the Perot family, the Hamon Foundation, the Vansickle Family Foundation, Cece...
Minneapolis Arts Organizations Join General Strike Today
“We’re pausing operations to recognise the weight of this moment in our community and to care for our employees and people in the Twin...
