If we can now grow a hamburger in a test tube, as the New York Times reported on Tuesday, we will still be able to get to the meat of the matter?
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It’s pollen season, big time, and Weekend Words turns its attention back to bees.
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This week we learned that the family of legendary gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, who was the exclusive representative of Matisse, Picasso and Braque, has claimed ownership of a Matisse that has been in the collection of Norway’s Henie Onstad Arts Center for decades.
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This week, in light of the news about Cooper Union, Weekend Words considers value.
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In a case of metaphor becoming reality, on Tuesday Hyperallergic passed along the news that Helly Nahmad Gallery on the Upper East Side had been busted by the Feds for running “high-stakes poker games involving Wall Street financiers, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes.”
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Weekend Words was saddened this week by the news of the death of filmmaker Les Blank. While his best-known movie is probably Burden of Dreams (1982), a behind-the-scenes look at the epic struggles undertaken by visionary German director Werner Herzog in the making of Fitzcarraldo, for the most part Blank’s work celebrated the music and food of America’s vanishing subcultures.
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The coverage of New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith’s pursuit of the New York City mayoralty revealed this detail, courtesy of Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News: In Queens, a sign at Smith’s district office read, “Theme of the Week: Blessings Have No Restrictions.” Following suit, Weekend Words has made ‘blessings’ its theme of the week as well.
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This week, more curiosities from the art world’s stratosphere. Intrigued, Weekend Words looks at forms of damage.
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In its previous installment, Weekend Words had bees on its mind; now the birds have asked for equal time.
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A brief report in this week’s Science Times tells us that “some plants, notably coffee and citrus, attract pollinators with caffeine-laced nectar, which gets the bees hooked as repeat customers.” Weekend Words welcomes the news of a hitherto unknown species of caffeine addicts with a squirt of honey.
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