“The judge decided that the trustees helped grow the value of the estate, though added that ‘the talent of Robert Rauschenberg and favourable market conditions were also contributing factors.'”
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Margot Adler, One Of NPR’s Signature Voices For Three Decades, Dies At 68
“‘Her reporting was singular and her voice distinct,’ Margaret Low Smith, NPR’s vice president for news, said in an announcement to staff. ‘There was almost no story that Margot couldn’t tell.'”
This Woman Completely Reinvented The Way Broadway Gets Funded
Karen Walter Goodwin’s “idea was essentially to provide an investment bank for nascent stage productions, putting together producers — who were enthralled by the idea of financial backers who did not crave or require creative input — and investors with proven track records who were willing to try their hand in a new arena.”
Why Do We Love Little Free Libraries So Much?
“Though they owe their spread largely to the Internet, Little Free Libraries often serve as an antidote to a world of Kindle downloads and data-driven algorithms. The little wooden boxes are refreshingly physical—and human.”
Forget Supertitles; Just Bring Your iPhone Or iPad To Wolf Trap’s ‘Carmen’ [AUDIO]
“The larger aim is to give texture and context to the things that we do so it feels a little more integrated into 21st century life.”
Is Audience Participation In Theatre A Good Thing?
“All theater is immersive, whether we want it to be or not. You need to design your audience’s experience from the moment they set foot in your theater door, or, preferably, as they approach it from the street.”
The Best Way To Support An Artist
“You may want your supportive activities to make her happy, but for some artists happiness doesn’t lead to creativity; they do their best work in times of turmoil or struggle – and they know it.”
How The First World War Destroyed Everything In Europe Faster Than Anyone Thought Possible
“We think of the First World War as a four-year affair. We forget, though, that Austria-Hungary lost half of its men within the first two weeks of the war — 400,000 men, including 100,000 who were taken prisoner by the Russians.”
Star Wars Wars, Or, The Problem With Film Preservation
“To preserve film as a work of art, one has to preserve ‘not just (but also) the strip, not just (but also) the apparatus, not just (but also) the screening space; what needs to be transmitted into the future is the set of relations between them while they are in performance—the working system.'”
Finally, Starchitect Norman Foster Gets His N.Y. Moment
These four buildings “come after a few notable setbacks for Mr. Foster, including the New York Public Library’s recent decision to rethink its planned conversion of part of its research flagship into a circulating library using a Foster design.”