Performing Arts and Overworked Staff: Let's Not Pretend We’re Okay
www.theatreartlife.com: There seems to be a weirdly macho attitude towards exhaustion in the performing arts, we wear it as an odd badge of pride. “I just pulled three 10 out of 12s!” “Oh yeah, well I just got off 40 hours straight with no sleep!” “It’s been three months since I’ve had a day off!” Bragging about how overworked we are is a one-ups game—I can endure more, so I must be more hardcore than you.SNL Sets are Built at Frenzied Pace in Brooklyn
www.ny1.com: Michael Stiegelbauer has been building sets for "Saturday Night Live" since the show's debut in 1975. First with his father, who was head of scenic design at NBC. Then 15 years later, with his own design company, Stiegelbauer Associates, when NBC contracted out the work.
Stiegelbauer outbid his competitors.Take a Ride on The Old Mill at CMU
www.cmu.edu/news: When visitors to Spring Carnival step into Skibo Gym this year, sights, sounds and even smells of an old steel mill will greet them.
“We have a couple of formulated scents just for this. It’s going to smell just like an old steel mill would. There’s a blast furnace on the ride, and it’s going to smell exactly like burning coals,” said Roly Garcia.How to move a masterpiece: the secret business of shipping priceless artworks
Art and design | The Guardian: Early one morning last summer, I stood inside a museum in Antwerp and watched as a painting was hung on the wall. When I walked in, the gallery was empty. To one side, there was a crate about a metre square. Royal blue, it was unmarked apart from a code number and a yellow stencilled sign reading “Lato da Aprire / Open this Side”.White Porgy and Bess cast ‘asked to say they identify as African-American’
Stage | The Guardian: The Hungarian State Opera has come up with a dubious way around a stipulation that George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess be performed by an all-black cast: it is allegedly asking its white, Hungarian singers to sign a paper saying they identify as African-American.
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