Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Prospects For Journalist: Low Pay, Few Jobs
Our findings show that the vast majority of “primary occupation” freelancers (those who spend more than 50% of their time on freelancing) earn less...
How Breakdancing Got Into The Paris Olympics
Bizarrely, Paris 2024 may well be the only time we will see breaking in the Olympics in the foreseeable future, although the World DanceSport...
Why Did Oxford University Shutter Its Future Of Humanity Institute?
Nick Bostrom – who popularized the theory that humanity may be living in a simulation, one that Musk often repeats – spoke about the...
Venice Biennale Gets Its Groove Back
Somehow, this grand festival of creativity has vitality, often substance, and a sense of context wider than the usual web of art-world connections and...
Houston’s Rothko Chapel Starts Big Expansion Project
Over the next two years, the site will see construction of an administration and archives building, a new program center, a guest bungalow for...
First Prize In This Year’s Venice Biennale
The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going to the Mataaho Collective, which consists...
Why Many Of Us Are Going Back To Pre-Digital Analog Tools
From vinyl records to film cameras, all manner of apparently written-off technologies have been making a comeback, including modular synthesizers – one of the earliest types...
On The Influence Of Small Magazines And Big Ideas
Another meaning of the word “magazine” is a store of munitions. My own addition to the arsenal of the free press, Standpoint, was founded in...
The Women Who’ve Founded Dance Companies In The US Since 1929
“Keeping track of these female-founded ballet companies is vital in understanding the pivotal and often unknown role of women in shaping the American ballet...
Fatal Error: Universities Have Stopped Teaching HOW To Think
Modern education concentrates on teaching subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing, and expressing one’s conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as...
The Last Small Town Movie Critic (Great Read)
"He fulfilled his dreams, save for being Spider-Man. He wanted to write and direct plays and movies. He wanted to do stand-up comedy. He...
Publishers Have Found An Interesting Way To Fight Children’s Book Bans
Publishers, writers, and progressive organizations across the children’s book industry aren’t letting the book bans hold them back. Instead, they’re turning the bans into...
Actors Unions Make Deal For “Ethical Use” Of AI Voices
The deal also sets a minimum rate for AI replication of session singers’ voices, in the amount of three “sides” per project. (A “side”...
Biggs Museum seeks their next Executive Director
The Biggs achieves its vision and goals within the standards and best practices as an American Alliance of Museums accredited institution, including championing the next phase of expansion.
Things We Learned From The World’s Largest Music Company’s Annual Report
Much of the publication obviously focuses on UMG’s extraordinarily successful 2023: A year in which it posted USD $12 billion in total revenues, with annual adjusted EBITDA just north...
Tending To The Legacy Of Dance Theatre Of Harlem
“Moving the organization forward would depend not only on the art that the company produced, but also on the legacy through its alumni. And...
The Toll That Questioning Someone’s Authority Takes
Growing research shows regular exposure to even relatively subtle prejudice and discrimination degrades physical and mental health, leading to outcomes like high blood pressure, chronic...
Designers Are Rebranding: Say Hello To “Visual Strategists”
Look at the way most branding agencies describe themselves today and “strategy” now gets top billing. Design is out. Strategy is in. - Fast Company
How Studying Music Makes Better Employees
It is well known many musicians work simultaneously in arts and non-arts roles, often to create some income security. Less understood is just how...
The War On Theatre
In the Educational Theater Association’s most recent survey, 85 percent of American theater teachers expressed concern about censorship. Even Shakespeare is at risk: In Florida,...
Amazon Is Clogged With Fake Books. How Does This Happen?
Many of them gleefully share misinformation or repackage basic facts from WikiHow behind a title that’s been search-engine-optimized to hell and back again. Some...
Opera Is Elitist? Er… Not So Much
We have entered a culturally risk-adverse period. Our present age of anxiety — which includes post-pandemic economic challenges to the arts, diminished attention spans...
AI Copyright Wars: US Copyright Office Shifts On The Rules
he is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the...
Christopher Knight: LACMA Will Provide Art For New Vegas Museum — What A Bad...
As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there. But it fits LACMA’s similarly bad — and unprecedented — decision to build a...
The Virtual You Is Getting Closer
It would be a mistake to think that the algorithms in the room will remain mere observers. AI is more like an ambitious virtual...