Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Just Whom Is Spotify’s New Time-Limited Audiobook Subscription For? Not Enough Time For The...
The 30-hour limit won’t get you through titles like George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones or Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings, for example. You...
Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Grant Applications After NEA Anti-DEI Rules
The Yale Art Gallery, the renowned university museum in New Haven, Connecticut, has withdrawn two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition after rejecting...
Director of Marketing and Communications, Mark Morris Dance Group
As we approach our 45th anniversary this position will play an integral role in ensuring the organization’s brand is effectively communicated to diverse audiences, including ticket buyers, donors, students, community members, press, presenters and other industry professionals.
How Trump Managed To Kill Bipartisaan Support For Public Broadcasting
Trump had campaigned on retribution and made the news media a core element of his grievance. Public broadcasting has offered a ready target, given...
How Trump’s Attacks On Journalists Are Weakening The First Amendment
They show Trump has found tactical ways to prevail in his nonstop battle to discredit outlets that report critically on him and his activities....
Fantastical Set Designer John Conklin, 88
The term “prodigy” rarely applies to set designers, but Mr. Conklin’s instincts were on full display in his youth. Growing up in Hartford, Conn.,...
“Citizen Kane”‘s Rosebud Sleigh Sells For $14.75M
Film director Joe Dante had owned the piece since 1984, when a person was clearing out a section of the Paramount Pictures film lot that had...
The Art Of Extra-ing
In gaps between jobs, an assortment of artists, coders and labourers played policemen, caterers and journalists. As one of the extras playing a journalist,...
Cancelling Colbert: The Ideological Purge Comes To Late Night TV
CBS knows what all this looks like. They’re trying very hard to address the optics. - Washington Post
Why Liberal Arts Education Is Really In Decline At American Universities
The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in...
The School Teacher Who Was Selling “Creepy” Art Made By His Students
The page was entitled “Creepy Portrait Art,” and the pictures were, as promised, incredibly creepy. Dozens of student portraits, mostly in crayon, depicted a...
Editors Used To be The Gatekeepers. Now That They’re Largely Gone, Should We Bring...
We still live in the world Condé Nast and its intimidating editors created. We just don’t know how to make sense of it, because...
Folk Rock Band Hits Big On The Music Charts. Trouble Is, The Band Is...
As the project rises on global charts and dominates Viral 50 playlists, artists and industry professionals are asking urgent questions about authenticity, consent and...
How Misinformation Infects A Community
Social connections establish pathways of influence that can facilitate the spread of germs, mental illness and even behaviors. We can be profoundly influenced by...
Republicans Propose Big Cuts To NEA, NEH, Kennedy Center Budgets
House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee recommended 35 percent cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...
Jacob’s Pillow Gets A New Modern Addition
It is unmistakably a work of contemporary architecture, a radical departure for Jacob’s Pillow. As such, it must be judged not only on how...
US Senate Votes To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting
The measure, known formally as a “rescission package,” is a request from President Donald Trump to take back $9 billion in funds that Congress...
What The UK’s Redesigned Money Will Say About Its People
The invitation to contribute to the redesign will therefore show two things. It will tell us how the country sees itself. It will also...
Why The Nazis Stole A Piece Of The Bayeux Tapestry
Nazi interest in the Bayeux tapestry may seem surprising to British people, where the tapestry is considered a symbol of a singularly significant moment...
How TikTok Is Changing The Ways We Communicate
Because we’re social creatures, your recommendation page will pressure you to watch or participate in these trends, so you can feel caught up on...
When Condé Nast Was Fat And Sassy (And Really Successful)
What these editors have in common more than some Horatio-Alger-with-a-pica-ruler climb is that they were good at their jobs. They had strong visions and...
Four Smithsonian Museums Shut For Days Because Of HVAC Issues
The Hirshhorn, Asian Art, African Art and American Indian museums have been closed for about three days. - WTOP
The Kinds Of Books You Want To Read Over And Over
There are certain books where even if you’ve already solved the murder, even if you already know how it’s all going to turn out,...
AI-Powered Robots Are Carving Sculpture From Stone. They Might Soon Be Changing The Way...
The 2-year-old company is turning this aging warehouse into a modern stonecutting factory capable of quickly producing highly detailed decorative facades, museum-grade marble sculptures,...
France’s Art Galleries Are Under Stress As The Market Changes
“We’re having trouble attracting young people, whereas in other countries, like China, buyers are on average in their thirties,” Magda Danysz, vice president of...
