At multi-day music fests, just like at Disneyworld, cashless wristbands prepare the way for ‘gamifying’ listeners’ experiences. And sure, it’s for pop music now, but could this also be the future for BBC Proms and other classical music multi-day festivals? – BBC
Tag: 07.20.19
What’s Up With Our Fascination With Women Who Kill?
It’s a longstanding thing – consider the ways that Clytemnestra became “an archetypal domestic murder plot” after the play premiered in 458 BCE. “Killing Eve is just the latest example of popular culture’s preoccupation with attractive young women who conceal a dark psychopathy: Villanelle is the embodiment of the classic female killer, who both seduces and repels.” – The Guardian (UK)
In Hollywood, An Agency Threatened To ‘Blow Up The Deal’ For ‘The Good Doctor’
Writers and agencies are locked in a battle over who should reap the benefits from packaging fees – “the longstanding industry practice of talent agencies taking fees for putting together a lineup of their clients — actors, writers and directors — for a show, rather than receiving the customary 10% commission on each client’s fee.” And for the show The Good Doctor, talent agency William Morris Endeavor “threatened to blow up the deal” unless a packaging fee was included. – Los Angeles Times
The Fire At Notre Dame Has Revived A Need For Skilled Stonecarvers
There are two ways to do become a stonecarver in France – travel around to different work sites, apprenticing, or get a degree (the latter is less “mythic” and somewhat more friendly to women). No matter what President Macron says about restoring Notre Dame in five years, they know they’ll be needed for decades to come. – NPR
How Did The Mueller Report Become A Live-Theatre Sensation?
Well, there’s this: “Mueller report read-a-thons have become acts of civil disobedience, a way for artists to register their discontent by leveraging their most valuable currency: celebrity.” – Los Angeles Times
The Worlds Of Mark Morris
“Morris plays delicious games with Satie’s variegated material.” – Deborah Jowitt
Eight Artists Withdraw From Whitney Biennial, Citing Board Member Whose Company Makes Tear Gas
One of the artists wrote to Hyperallergic, “As a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, it terrifies me that my work is currently part of a platform that is now strongly associated with Kanders’ teargas-producing company Safariland. … I have recently taken her to several demonstrations and that further heightened my awareness of the situation. I do not want her to grow up in a world where free and peaceful expression is countered with means that have left people injured and dead.” – Hyperallergic
Netflix And SAG-AFTRA Sign A New Deal
The deal, which includes harassment protection and a ban on private, in-room auditions, also “recognizes performance capture as covered work and includes coverage of dubbing, which applies to all of Netflix’s foreign-language live-action and animated motion pictures dubbed into English.” – Variety
César Pelli, Who Designed Some Of The World’s Tallest Buildings, Has Died At 92
Pelli, born in Argentina, was the former dean of Yale’s architecture school. He designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger called him “an architect of great dignity and lively creativity who did as much as anyone in the last generation to evolve the form of the skyscraper.” – The Guardian (UK)