Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Opera Montreal Picks A New General Director
The company announced that the Board of Directors chose Jen-Pierre Primiani, who currently serves as Chief Philanthropy Officer, for the position and will begin...
Rural Public Media Stations Will Close Or Be Greatly Reduced As Federal Support Goes...
“That would mean an almost immediate disappearance of almost half our operating budget,” David Gordon, executive director of KEET in Eureka, California, said of...
The Urge To Isolationism Isn’t New
This exaltation of self-sufficiency and the downgrading of the value of trading links amounts to a profound break from the orthodoxy of globalisation –...
Vice President of Business Development, Dance & Performing Arts – Robbins Dance Floors
Robbins Dance Floors seeks a driven sales-oriented leader to fill the role of Vice President of Business Development, Dance & Performing Arts.
Figuring Out The “Ulysses” Phenomenon
The fate of Ellmann and his Joyce biography highlights the disorienting transformation of literature as a field of study. The canons dismantled during the...
Data: Why We Still Need Women’s Writing Prizes
Our analysis of the dataset shows how there is still a ways to go before women’s writing is valued — awarded, remunerated and read...
Nearly Half Of Sarasota Ballet Dancers Quit, Claiming Toxic Work Environment
Nearly half the company’s dancers — including its top two female principals — are leaving after a season marked by strained relationships with leadership,...
Fulbright Board Resigns Over Interference In Awards
Awards were overridden in subject areas spanning architecture, biology, engineering, agriculture, animal sciences, medical sciences, music and history, it says, accusing the administration of...
New Immersive Museum To Open In NYC
“It’s not just a genre,” he told me over email. “It’s a form expression for a younger generation of artists, which is both natural...
Study: Music Listeners In Cities Have Wider Tastes But Share Less
The researchers calculated each individual's "listening radius"—roughly how far they roamed across genres and artists. They found that people living in larger urban areas...
Music Is Now UC Berkeley’s Fastest-Growing Major
The increase in music majors may be related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It turns out people turned to music in their time at home, and...
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Ad Industry Faces An AI Reckoning
“The advertising world might be at their funeral without even realizing it,” said Geoffrey Colon, an entrepreneur who spent two decades at creative agencies...
General Director – Pittsburgh Opera
As it looks forward to its 87th season, Pittsburgh Opera—one of America’s most artistically respected opera companies—invites recommendations/applications for the position of General Director
Chief Development Officer – Arena Stage
Arena Stage is seeking a talented fundraising leader driven by ambition and creativity to serve as its Chief Development Officer
National Portrait Museum Director That Trump Fired Decides To Leave Anyway
“This was not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. From the very beginning, my guiding principle has been to...
The Gentileschi That Survived The Beirut Explosion
Having passed only between three private collections over four centuries, the “Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece” exhibition marks the first time the painting...
Canada’s Currently Reigning Major Prairie Poet
As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in English...
Sydney Theatre Company Scores Windfall Off Hit
Sydney Theatre Company has recorded a $10m boost to revenue after its Dorian Gray production became a West End hit, and is poised to reap millions...
What 18 Years In The Met Opera Costume Shops Looks Like
After 18 years, Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, 64, a fast-talking native New Yorker, is retiring this month from the Met. She has garnered a reputation as a calm...
How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet
We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder....
Are Bay Area Arts Organizations Sustainable? Some Data…
This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With...
What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry
McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive —...
Should Big Media Companies Really Shape Our Culture Like This?
We need to pay careful attention to the uneven power dynamics between major media companies and then the musicians and music lovers who live...
Why Literary Prizes Are A Bad Idea
As I got older and developed a more mature understanding of what literature is, the prizes started to seem increasingly bizarre and then sort...
The Rise Of Anonymous Visual Art Critics
Several platforms are proliferating across cyberspace, seemingly in response to a culture in mainstream art criticism that the authors perceive as risk averse. ‘No...
