MEDIA RES home About Me I'm a consultant in the arts and media, specializing in classical-music radio and recordings. My professional expertise ranges from marketing to management to artists and repertoire, but my enthusiasms embrace just about all the mass media, with a particular emphasis on the arts. More
About Media Res Society and culture in the age of the Internet are more exposed than ever before, subject to examination and investigation instantaneously and ubiquitously. But we human beings still haven't outgrown our capacity to overlook the obvious, or to believe what we want to believe no matter what the evidence to the contrary, or to mistake our narrow prejudices for high ideals. This blog will look at the interrelationships between the media, culture, and society from different angles, maybe with a few surprises now and then. More
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OTHER AJ BLOGS
ABOUT LAST NIGHT Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City Terry Teachout writes about the arts in New York City. It's a diary of his life as a working critic, about all the arts, not just one or two. By writing each day about my own experiences as a consumer and critic, Terry hopes to create a meeting place in cyberspace for arts lovers who are curious, adventurous, and unafraid of the unfamiliar. Go To Blog
ARTFUL MANAGER Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture For four decades now, nonprofit arts and culture organizations have focused on a corporate ideal. Using the mantras of for-profit America—effectiveness, efficiency, professionalism, best practices, change management, accountability—a generation of arts leaders has struggled to graft business basics onto the world of creative expression. But what if, all along the way, we fundamentally misunderstood what it meant to be run "like a business"? Go To Blog
SEEING THINGS Tobi Tobias on dance et al... Ever since I can remember, I’ve had three particular passions: children, especially pre-literate children (the subset of human society containing the densest population of poets); how people say what they say and the multiple (often ambiguous) meanings that lie behind the words; and looking at things. These loves have spawned my work: writing books for the very young; oral history projects; writing about dance and the visual and decorative arts. Electronic publication opens new horizons for writing. That’s why I’m here. Go To Blog
