“‘When you’re looking at categories of programming that people respond to globally, food and cooking shows are on the top of that list,’ explains Brandon Riegg, Netflix VP of nonfiction series and comedy specials.” In this genre, audiences don’t seem to mind subtitles, so “food shows can play in all markets and [even] spawn localized spinoffs.” – The Hollywood Reporter
Tag: 07.19.19
This Is Why West End Theatre Ushers Want Body Cameras
The Society of London Theatre is starting to provide front-of-house employees body cameras to record patron behaviour because of stories like these. “Ushers reported being spat and shouted at, being physically assaulted and having to break up fights between audience members themselves.” (And then there was “Poogate.”) – The Stage
‘When Harry Met Sally’ And The Invention Of The ‘High-Maintenance’ Woman
“According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, it was When Harry Met Sally that popularized the term high-maintenance in American culture. … An assessment that is also a rebuke, high-maintenance is one of those breezy truisms that is so common, it barely registers as an insult. But the term today does precisely what it did 30 years ago, as backlash brewed against the women’s movement: It serves as an indictment of women who want.” – The Atlantic
New Consortium To Commission Dance Works For Art Galleries Across Britain
“CONTINUOUS Network, originally a partnership between Siobhan Davies Dance in London and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead,” and now expanding to include two more dance companies and five more galleries, “will present six new co-commissioned dance works by 2022, and tour eight existing ones, with the aim of reaching 75,000 people live or online over the next three years.” – Arts Professional
Two Sotheby’s Shareholders Sue To Block Sale Of Auction House To Private Owner
“The investors filed lawsuits this week in federal court in Manhattan claiming incomplete and misleading disclosures about … the planned $2.7 billion purchase of the auction house by French telecom titan and art collector Patrick Drahi’s BidFair USA.” – Bloomberg
UK Parliament To Start Inquiry Into National Lottery And Money It Distributes To Arts
The inquiry follows a long-term decline in lottery ticket sales as well as a report that the company which operates the Lottery diverted £39 million that was supposed to go to the arts and other charitable causes into its own marketing budget. – Arts Professional
Epicuious: A Philosophy For The Modern World?
In the popular mind, an epicure fine-tunes pleasure, consuming beautifully, while a stoic lives a life of virtue, pleasure sublimated for good. But this doesn’t do justice to Epicurus, who came closest of all the ancient philosophers to understanding the challenges of modern secular life. – Aeon
What’s Missing In The Ways We Teach Music… Context?
“We’ve become very well-grounded in traditional education theory, techniques and subject matters. But being culturally responsive means teaching music where kids are, and with what interests them. It means using songs by Bebe Rexha or Wiz Khalifa before an American folk song. It means teaching kids to play a synthesizer, electric guitar or drum kit, not just a violin or recorder.” Washington Post
Let’s Talk About Epicurus, And What He Means For Modern Life
Sure, people use the word “epicurean,” but do they know what the pursuit of happiness really means, or where it came from? In our age of deep anxiety about politics and the planet itself, it’s a good time to find out more about the original philosopher. – Aeon
The Loudness Of Bossa Nova’s King Of Quiet [AUDIO]
Bossa nova had a golden age, ushered in by its creator, João Gilberto – and “the reign of bossa nova — as it was originally intended — was brief. It was an engagement with and a rejoinder to the samba that preceded it, and by the late 1960s, the Tropicalia movement had captured the center of Brazil’s creative imagination. But bossa nova has had a long and not always substantive afterlife; it has become the stuff of car commercials, beach bars and other places a dash of cosmopolitanism is needed.” – The New York Times