The music mogul, who founded Vibe in 1993, says, “I’m trying to buy my magazine back now. … They just messed my magazine all up, but I’m gonna get it back. You better believe it, I’m’a take it online because print and all that stuff is over.”
Tag: 06.30.09
Bausch’s Influence Reached Far Beyond Dance
The death of Pina Bausch “is an appalling shock and a tragedy not only for the dance world, but also for the entire international arts world. Bausch’s visionary work as dancer, choreographer and creator of the Tanztheater Wuppertal had a reach way, way beyond the confines of the German town where she worked. Theatre and opera simply wouldn’t look the way they do today without Bausch; she has also had an enormous influence on visual art and cinema….”
Regrets File: I’d Have Been A Math Whiz — If I’d Played D&D
“There are many reasons that I wish I had played Dungeons and Dragons, or any RPG for that matter, when I was younger. Sure, it wouldn’t have garnered me much in the way of cool points, but I’d ostensibly revoked mine at the door by dressing like a hippie and burying my face in books.” The game requires doing simple math, and connecting that with the fun of role-playing means D&D players get good at it.
Dance-Theatre Innovator Pina Bausch Dies At 68
“Acclaimed German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch has died at the age of 68. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, she left her mark as an innovator in the hybrid genre of ‘Tanztheater,’ or dance theater.” Bausch, who died this morning, was diagnosed last week with cancer but had continued working.
At 50, San Francisco Mime Troupe Is Still Making Noise
“Who would’ve thought that an avant-garde arts experiment would become one of the nation’s best-known companies within its first decade? That it would launch careers as diverse as those of Peter Coyote, Shabaka and Bill Graham? That a gritty anti-establishment troupe would win a Tony award? Or that mimes could be this vocal?”
$25,000 Local Kresge Grant Makes Its Debut In Detroit
“The Troy-based Kresge Foundation today announced $450,000 in grants to 18 local visual artists. The $25,000 no-strings fellowships, which inaugurate one of the country’s most lucrative annual awards available to artists, are designed to give winners financial breathing room to allow them to focus on making art.” The foundation’s president “said that Kresge’s grants in 2010 would recognize performing and literary artists.”
Why Kodachrome Mattered
“[W]hile the discontinuance of Kodachrome may not be felt as keenly as that of other recently defunct items — notably Polaroid’s SX-70 film or Kodak’s black-and-white printing papers — the Kodak film has given honorable service for so long (since 1935 in movie cameras, since 1936 in 35mm still cameras) that its demise calls for a send-off more ceremonial than just a quote from the Paul Simon lyric.”
Hoffman Outburst Proves Author-Critic Feuds Alive & Well
“Authors generally try to stay classy in the face of negative feedback, bravely showing up for their readings and working the publicity circuit despite whatever Michiko and company proclaim. When they do respond to a critic, it’s more likely to present a clarification or correction of something the writer has apparently gotten wrong. … Sometimes, however, the quarrel is less about being right and more about lashing out.”
Tate Commissioned Unknown, Aiming To Make Her A Star
“It is one of the country’s largest spaces to showcase the best of British sculpture, so being commissioned to create an artwork for the Duveen Galleries – the central space in Tate Britain – has not just drawn in hordes of visitors but also cemented the reputations of Britain’s boldest contemporary artists. Now, the gallery has selected a previously unknown artist,” Eva Rothschild, “in hope that she will become as celebrated as her earlier ‘art star’ counterparts….”
Night Café Battle Spotlights A Different Kind Of Looting
Van Gogh’s “The Night Café,” from 1888, “is posing an intricate question in international law. It’s the subject of a suit and countersuit in U.S. courts between the descendant of a former owner and Yale University Art Gallery. … So whose is it? That turns on the legitimacy of the Bolshevik government and its acts: a matter for international lawyers.”