The News Review:
- Celeb Watch: ‘Dancing’ Spice Girls keep Mel B on her toes
- A holiday break: Why we need nostalgia in winter
- Tino Sehgal – Art – New York Times
Celeb Watch: ‘Dancing’ Spice Girls keep Mel B on her toes
USA Today – Nov 25, 2007
She never expected her career to kick back into high gear — especially two big projects converging at the same time. On Dancing she’s the front-runner going into the finale of one of TV’s top shows luring nearly 21 million viewers each week. She and professional partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy are one of four couples remaining. Though she has received a perfect 10 from the judges in past weeks she realizes she’s as vulnerable to elimination as anyone. “It doesn’t really matter what the judges think” she says. “It’s who the viewers want to vote for… 15 then nationwide. Could the reunion last? “We’re finished (touring) in March and we haven’t discussed what’s going to happen after that” she says. “I think we’re all going to take a break and then who knows?”She might finally have more time for her kids (Angel Iris is 7 months sister Phoenix is 
and husband of five months. “He’s a movie producer. I’ve known him for seven years and he has always been in and out of my life. We’re both 32 so we’re both completely at the same point in our lives. ” Brown makes the battle this year with Angel’s father (Eddie Murphy) over paternity and support seem like ancient history.
A holiday break: Why we need nostalgia in winter
Denver Post – Nov 25, 2007
And there would not be war there would not be gangs there would not be busted mortgages the dollar wouldn’t be worth zip — if only I had done everything right. ‘” All the more reason we need to reflect on happier times gone by. Something uplifting like “White Christmas” with its litany of Berlin melodies lush orchestrations and extended dance breaks. “It’s an interesting musical because it’s based upon the idea that ‘OK we won the war and we have all this prosperity but we’re still not fulfilled. There is a missing link in our life’ ” said Thompson who believes the stage musical is more complex than the film. “If we do this well it should bring tears to your eyes” he said. “White Christmas” is particularly meaningful for Stanley because her father was an Air Force general and they too had a family farm in Vermont.
Tino Sehgal – Art – New York Times
New York Times – Nov 25, 2007
Sehgal has had solo exhibitions all over Europe including one at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (where he has a work in the permanent collection) and three at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The Goodman show is the crest of a wave poised to break over the United States. This fall “Kiss” in which a couple in an unbroken embrace recreate kisses from familiar works of art is on display at the… Sehgal then a choreographer to show his work in a museum context. Sehgal studied dance and economics but economics came first. He says his touchstone belief is that his generation must “come up with alternatives of producing in different ways”: a political rather than an artistic issue. He gradually came to realize he said that parliamentary politics “was administrating cultural values and the real politics would be to work on those cultural values and to bring up new ideas of how things could be done. ” “What interested me in dance” he added “was it was a way of producing something and nothing at the same time. “Its political derivations mean that Mr.