Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Immigrant Artists Who Are Pushing Back
The exhibition is intended as a celebration of immigrants in a time of crackdowns and deportations. It is also a form of outreach, offering...
How The Alternative Press Subverted Media
While traditional journalism often evaluates the trustworthiness of news by how seemingly objective or dispassionate the newsmaker is from a given issue, newsmaking from...
How To Make A Living As A Writer
I got this job the way I’ve gotten most of my jobs: through an acquaintance who heard I was looking for work. This is...
Why AMC Movie Theatres Have Slashed Wednesday Ticket Prices
Studios have long been pushing Aron and other exhibitors to offer discounted Wednesday prices, but this will be the first test to see whether...
Data: Where The Resident Choreographers Are
Among the 165 global companies analyzed, only 10 contemporary and modern companies employed resident choreographers, compared to 38 ballet companies. Within the global contemporary...
Celebrating Cezanne In The Place Where He Was
Aix is where Cézanne (1839-1906) was born and first put brush to palette. It’s where he painted many of his masterpieces, and it’s where...
Lucas Museum, Not Yet Opened, Lays Off Staff
Two people familiar with museum operations described the scene as shocking and chaotic on Thursday morning, when employees were summoned into morning meetings with...
Met Opera, Salzburg Festival, Team Up
“Especially for a festival like ours, it is such a pity — they did this in the past — that you do a production...
How To Fix Hollywood? Mayor Says Make It Easier For Hollywood To Work
The mayor issued an executive directive to streamline city processes, lower the costs of filming in the city and make it easier for productions...
AI Startup Says It Can Make Movie Animation 90 Percent Cheaper
Lip-syncing a minute of animation could take up to four hours. An animator would listen to an audio track and laboriously adjust character mouths...
San Francisco’s New Mayor: Star Of His Own Reality Show
So far, the overall impression of the mayor’s social presence is of an ambassador pounding the pavement and taking Muni from West Portal to...
UK Budget Season: A Time For The Arts To Make Their Case
The spending review is an opportunity for the government to make public its fine-tuning of fiscal planning. It’s also an opportunity for theatremakers to...
More Cities, Countries, Invest In Creative Economy To Strengthen Their Communities
Worldwide, this idea of investing in the creative industries has seen an uptick over the last decade as governments realize filmmaking, visual arts, music,...
Report: UK Arts Spaces Are In Dire Need Of Repair
According to the report, more than three quarters of arts centres are unable to carry out planned building work amid growing financial pressures. More...
When The Stories You Hear Become Part Of Your Own Identity
Although the story is not based on reality, the experience of the story makes it real. A study from 2017 showed that the themes that people consider most...
Now, With Attacks On Free Speech, Is When Publishers Need To Shine
A democracy can’t function without a healthy publishing ecosystem. That means publishers of all sizes and stripes should be able to keep the lights...
The Strand Bookstore To Absorb Last NYC Shakespeare & Co.
Shakespeare & Co. will transfer ownership of its last New York storefront, located on the Upper West Side, to Strand Book Store on June...
Are We Ready To Give Up The Pleasure Of Thinking To AI?
Take this straightforward case and see how tricky it is in order to start building the cognitive muscles you’ll need when thinking about justice,...
Neuroscientists Note How The Brain Processes Metaphor
Researchers at the University of Arizona sought to better understand the neural mechanisms behind metaphor generation, a creative skill that plays an important role...
Christopher Nolan To Make First-Ever Commercial Feature Entirely In IMax
Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey, the Oppenheimer director’s epic take on the classic Greek myth, will shoot entirely on Imax film cameras, a first for a commercial feature. - The...
Chicago’s Miracle Mile To Get A Theatre Of Magic
Brainchild of Chicago healthcare entrepreneur Glen Tullman, the sorcery will span 36,000 square feet of the historic McCormick Mansion (formerly home to Lawry's Prime Rib), including not...
How “Etoile” Integrates Real Dancers Into Its Fictional World
“We didn’t want it to be so fictionalized that you didn’t recognize it,” Palladino told IndieWire. “We really want people who know New York...
Trump Hosts Kennedy Center Board Meeting, Says He’ll Fix The Place
“We’re gonna turn it around,” Trump told dinner attendees of the center. He said of running the board, ”When I said, ‘I’ll do this,’...
Lincoln Center’s $335M Redesign Plans
The project, designed by Hood Design Studio (Landscape Architect), Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism (Design Architect) and Moody Nolan (Architect of Record), creates what Lincoln Center describes...
HBO Undoes The Rebranding Mistake Of A Generation
Dropping “HBO,” a label linked to award-winning dramas for decades, removed a trusted shortcut and left viewers asking whether the service had changed its...
