“It is one of only five states without any sales or use tax, meaning that a Manhattan collector who might owe, say, $887,500 in sales tax on the purchase of a $10 million painting at Sotheby’s in New York, would owe nothing by shipping the art to Delaware directly after purchasing it.”
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Ronald Broun, 75, Classical Music Critic For Washington Post
“Mr. Broun applied informally to write criticism for The Post in 1998, although he had never published in a newspaper before. His gift for lively and informed prose was recognized immediately, and he was soon covering several concerts a week. [He] had the ability to convey serious musical information with a good-humored twist.”
How Our Technology Is Changing Us
“The existence of the medium has created an unremitting low-intensity neural disquiet that we somehow feel only the medium can allay. We are on the run from the anxious vibration of our living.”
Lucerne Festival 2016 To Feature 11 Female Conductors
“Emmanuelle Haïm will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, which, more than any other top orchestra, has been criticized for its slow pace of adding women to its ranks. Marin Alsop will make her debut in Lucerne conducting the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and Barbara Hannigan will conduct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Susanna Mälkki will conduct a new work by Olga Neuwirth, the festival’s composer in residence.”
What If You Made A Great Movie And Nobody Came? Why ‘Steve Jobs’ Bombed
“Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s exhilarating biopic-but-not-a-biopic of the late Apple co-founder sank like a stone in its first week of wide release after promising numbers in major markets and mostly rapturous reviews (ours included). What happened? The Internet, being the Internet, has some theories.”
Oldest College Dance Program In US May Stop Offering An Undergrad Major
“While the dance minor and graduate program will remain, the school has proposed dissolving the dance major under budget constraints. … Founded in 1938, Mills’ dance department is the oldest, continuously-run program in the country today. With that comes a list of distinguished alumni, including Molissa Fenley and Trisha Brown.”
The Link Between Ticket Prices And The Community Around You
“My fellow arts leaders, the next time you find yourselves asking, “Why don’t our audiences include younger people? Why is our neighborhood gentrifying? Why aren’t we staging more innovative shows and developing young talent?”—rethink your admission prices and your outreach strategy.”
Beirut’s Art Scene Remains Lively Despite The City’s Never-Ending Tumult
“The creative ferment is happening even as unrest in the region and domestic political instability have ground the economy and tourism to a near halt and threaten to embroil Lebanon in new conflicts. Beirut is also a city where luxury towers are redrawing the skyline while the arrival in recent years of an estimated 1.5 million refugees from neighboring Syria has strained the infrastructure of a country of 4 million. A crisis over garbage collection recently plagued the city, but seems to have subsided.”
What Libraries Can Still Do, Even As The World Becomes Digitalized
“The library has no future as yet another Internet node, but neither will it relax into retirement as an antiquarian warehouse. Until our digital souls depart our bodies for good and float away into the cloud, we retain part citizenship in the physical world … In the midst of an information explosion, librarians are still the most versatile information specialists we have. And the purest.”
Pianist’s Blasphemy Conviction Annulled By Turkish High Court
“The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled by a majority vote that [Fazil] Say’s Twitter posts, which had led to his sentence on grounds of ‘insulting religious beliefs held by a section of society,’ should be regarded as freedom of thought and expression and thus should not be punished.”