“I do not read Hustler magazine; I would rather read The New Yorker. I would be appalled, however, if the state were to exact from Hustler a tax that The New Yorker did not have to pay, on the ground that what appears in Hustler is insufficiently ‘cultural and artistic.’” — Justice Robert Smith,
dissenting from yesterday’s New York Court of Appeals ruling
that lap dancing is not an artistic performance and so can be taxed