Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Enough With Those Claims Culture Has Become Less Creative. Look Around!
The Internet didn’t destroy monoculture. It exposed the fact that monoculture was always a bottleneck, popped the cork, and let the contents fizz out. ...
Fired Philadelphia Art Museum Director Sues Over Her Dismissal
In her lawsuit, which was filed in Pennsylvania state court, the former director, Sasha Suda, contends that she was fired “without a valid basis”...
How To Build An Imagination: The Books Of Childhood
We learn from stories. Our ancestors were raised on myths about their ancestors, tales about their saviours, emperors and lawgivers, and, eventually, novels about...
Fighting The Algorithms: Tips For Discovering New Music
"For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out the easiest way to uncover new music. Not new releases, not...
Why Music Education Should Resist Conformity
We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, and yet this very connectedness has led to something paradoxical: uniformity. In our quest to standardise,...
@100: Remembering Charles Mackerras’ Impact On English Musical Life
Mackerras had a major impact on British musical life, whether as Music Director of English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, working with major...
Washington National Opera Considers Leaving The Kennedy Center
Leaving the Kennedy Center is a possible scenario after a collapse in box office revenue and “shattered” donor confidence in the wake of Trump’s...
Seattle’s New $800M Park Transforms Its Waterfront
Waterfront Park is thus making its debut in a city eager for a win. When it began opening in stages over the last year,...
Woeful Security At The Louvre (Including Its Passwords)
Since the heist, information has resurfaced showing that gaps in security appear to have been known for years – including a 2014 warning that...
Inside The Kennedy Center’s Nose-Dive
Interviews with 25 people, including current and former Kennedy Center executives, board members, longtime employees, recent hires, industry leaders and Trump administration officials, revealed...
AI Is Exacerbating An Education Crisis
As one instructional designer you’ll hear says, “If this technology becomes more ubiquitous, we’ll have courses created by AI, graded by AI, with submissions...
Music Labels Are Beginning To Make AI Deals. What Does It Mean For Musicians?
Such settlements and strategic partnerships will help major labels set the ground rules for developing AI-music ecosystems. And it seems they are becoming common. -...
The Unpleasant Art Museum Tour That’s Wildly Popular
Joseph Langelinck’s “highly unpleasant” tours cost around $8 USD, and they’ve reportedly sold out every session since they launched in May, with bookings well...
An AI Map Of Bob Dylan’s Songs
Could machine analysis measure the qualities that make Dylan’s songs resonate – how complexity arises, how new images mix with the familiar, how ambiguity...
The Mona Lisa Problem
One solution might be to put it in a separate structure — climate-controlled, transparent — in the neighboring Tuileries Garden. Time-controlled tickets could be sold...
Director of Programming, Hult Center, Eugene, OR
Application Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025, at 5 p.m. P.T.
Accepting Online Applications Only Via the City of Eugene’s Website: Director of Programming | Job
What Margaret Atwood Left Out Of Her Memoir
By telling a straightforward tale about her life in which she is the unquestionable hero, Atwood leaves little space for truly literary tensions but...
The Idea Of An Anthropocene Era Has Been Declared Dead
In 2016, the group made its recommendation that the Anthropocene should be considered as the new epoch. This recommendation was later forwarded to higher...
Doomerism as A Philosophy
As a wide range of social scientists, pollsters, and trendspotters have observed, a sense of fatalism has increasingly suffused the attitudes of many millennials...
The Old Whitney Museum Is About To Reopen As Sotheby’s. Here’s What’s Been Done...
The renovation is thoughtful and deeply respectful, with a stress on materiality and crisp detail that is typical of Herzog & de Meuron. -...
Opera In Decline? Maybe Not In Australia, Suggest Recent Data
'Both our Sydney summer and winter 2025 seasons recorded their highest ever number of first-time purchasers, while repeat purchasers also grew. This increase in...
To Get More Patrons, San Francisco Plans To Allow Movies Theatres To Serve Alcohol
"You have to basically be a restaurant, which movie theaters are not. This is going to make it easier for movie theaters to have...
The Tax Scams Behind UK Movies
For Love or Money had a budget of £4.3m and claimed tax credits of £994,353 – or 23% of the budget. If you actually...
AI Hallucinations Mimic The Traits Of Narcissism
To understand why they persist, it helps to see them not as acts of deception, but as predictable behaviours of systems built to be...
When Dance Movement Is Constrained By Costumes
Josephine Flos was rehearsing the opening of “Figure,” a new dance piece created by the fashion designer Lisa Konno in collaboration with the choreographer...
