Archives for June 2005

Just a quick note today to welcome the newest ArtsJournal blogger, jazz journalist and author Doug Ramsey. I used to work in the communications office of Berklee College of Music in Boston, academic home to many jazz greats. So I’m eager to read. Welcome aboard Doug!

I talked about ”podcasting” way back in December, and suggested it was an interesting technology/trend to watch. The technology showed up again in an entry earlier this month, as a rogue group of art lovers were creating and distributing their own audio guides to MoMA exhibits. Now, there are lots of reasons to pay even […]

Several sources are talking about a new musician’s contract at the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony (the New York Times had a piece this Sunday, drawing from an earlier article in Andante, and discussed today at length by my weblog neighbor, Drew McManus). Says the Times: The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, one of Japan’s top-tier orchestras, has its […]

KCRW’s radio show, The Business, has a great segment on the world’s most popular mobile phone ring tone, and its strange and backward route to the top (you can listen to the show on-line, the story is about 14 minutes in). Here’s their short description of the story: …a song made from a cell phone […]

A colleague of mine espouses what he calls the ”mushroom method” of managing a board of directors: keep them in the dark, and every now and then shovel crap on them (he uses an alternate word for ”crap”). That method may have been a factor at the Milwaukee Public Museum, based on the news flowing […]

The quest for quality exhibit space has finally stretched to the final frontier with this study of possible cultural uses of the international space station (or read the Guardian story on the effort). The European Space Agency has funded The Arts Catalyst in London to carry out the project, which ends this month (so get […]

It’s kinda cool when the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) turns its gaze in our general direction. And it’s especially cool when their work takes such a radical turn from economic policy, currency dynamics, stock markets, and international trade to talk about Rock and Roll. Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music, co-written by Princeton […]

C|NET has a once-over-lightly piece on the Van Cliburn Piano Competition’s new blog and the trend it suggests for classical music marketing. Says C|NET: …like other areas before it, from politics to open-source programming, the classical music world is finding a democratic spirit online that could help shape its future….with little support from big institutions, […]

No time for much today, just a quick link to weblog neighbor Greg Sandow, and his fabulous examples of how to write a classical music press release…with personality, voice, perspective, intelligence, and without the usually empty hyperbole.

At least one arts journalist in Madison, Wisconsin, is in a bunch over the name change of a local museum. After the Elvehjem Museum of Art — part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — announced a $20 million gift for a new building and simultaneously changed its name to the Chazen Museum of Art to […]