Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Pittsburgh’s Three Largest Theatres Need To Merge
If the merger proceeds and is successful, it could become a national model for regional theater companies in other cities and states around the...
In Defense Of Peter Gelb
Mr. Gelb undermined his focus on new works with a comically misguided guest essay for The New York Times that managed to antagonize every remaining...
Broadway Theatres Oppose Proposed Casino For Times Square
Owners of 24 Broadway Theaters are taking their opposition to a new Times Square casino right to theaters goers by stuffing a pamphlet into copies of...
Can We Please Reframe What An AI World Will Mean To Us?
Rather than asking AI to hurl itself over the abyss while hoping for the best, we should instead use AI’s extraordinary and improving capabilities...
How AI Is Coming To Own Culture
Algorithmic culture taps into the casual randomness with which we apportion our care; it takes advantage of the fact that what we bump into...
NEA Cancels Creative Writing Fellowships
On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying...
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Over the years, “critically acclaimed” came to function as a euphemism for music that was semipopular, or maybe just unpopular. - The New Yorker
Behind What Looks Like AI Creativity
For years, researchers have wondered: If the models are just reassembling, then how does novelty come into the picture? It’s like reassembling your shredded...
Harvard Makes Budget Cuts In Humanities Programs
Harvard’s Arts and Humanities division instructed department heads to collectively reduce their budgets for non-personnel spending by roughly $1.95 million as divisions across the...
UCLA Gears Up To Battle Justice Department
Leaders have made it clear that a $1-billion payout is a no-go. Another red line for several UC officials is the federal request that...
Artistic Director – Dallas Theater Center working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Dallas Theater Center (DTC) encourages qualified candidates to apply for the Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Position.
Fine Arts Work Center seeks Director of Development and Communications
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown seeks a talented and passionate Director of Development and Communications to join our team.
Director of Marketing
The Director of Marketing leads all marketing and communications functions for the Hult Center, with responsibility for managing staff, external vendors, and promotional strategy for both “Broadway in Eugene” and other Hult Presents programs.
What The Restoration Of A Historic Glasgow Theatre Says About The Future Of Historic...
The redevelopment and restoration of older theatres such as the Citizens has become important as their social value and anchoring presence in towns and...
Why A Visual Image Gives Us Pleasure
It is noteworthy that as strikingly photographic, familiar, dramatic — what have you — the painting is, one source of its pleasure has nothing...
A Contest To Live In A Depopulated German City Has Been A Surprising Success
The competition drew more than 1,700 applications from around the world to try living in Eisenhüttenstadt, a Soviet-style planned city on the Polish border,...
How Germany Put Live Music At The Core Of Its Public Broadcasting
In its capacity to unite a nation across generational boundaries, broadcast live music, freed from the trappings of stardom and commerce, had proved its...
When We Measure Everything Our Perceptions And Ability To Process The World Change
The machinery of ordinalisation attends carefully to individuals rather than coarse classes or groups. By doing so, it appears to liberate people from the...
Study: AI Might Create New Forms Of Music
Notably, the researchers found that the ongoing debate about copyright in AI-generated music is one of the major reasons why some artists are creating...
Any Surprise? Top Talent Exiting American Universities
An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment...
Will At The Center Of A Shakespeare Controversy Has Been Located After 150 Years
A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s...
Attack On The Smithsonian Is A Threat To Our History
This is not simply a disagreement over museum curation; it’s a dangerous and calculated attempt to whitewash our history, silence uncomfortable truths, and undermine...
How Wired Magazine Got Scammed By AI
You couldn’t make a better WIRED pitch if you built it in a lab. Or in this case, with the help of a large...
37 Rules For Navigating A Successful Theatre Experience
Here is your cheat sheet for making the most of your time at the theater while not accidentally becoming the drama. - Washington Post...
Can You Really Deprogram Your MAGA Parents With A Book Club?
"I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as...
