Weekend Words

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Weekend Words: Honesty

With fine art auctioneers taking bids from the chandeliers hanging overhead, Weekend Words holds aloft a lamp in search of honesty.

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Weekend Words: Winter

Everyone talks about the weather, and Weekend Words is no exception. With New York undergoing a long frigid blast this week, let's raise a cold one to winter.

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Weekend Words: Second Acts

With tomorrow ushering in Barack Obama’s second term as President, Weekend Words has the audacity to hope that F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, and that there are indeed second acts in American lives.

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Weekend Words: Beasts

The other day, Hyperallergic's Allison Meier reported on snakes who are artists, rather than the other way around. Weekend Words ponders the distance between us and our beastly brethren.

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Weekend Words: Luck

Unlucky? Now that we're officially in year 13 of the 21st century, Weekend Words asks, "What’s luck got to do with it?"

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Weekend Words: Falling

With the country heading off the fiscal cliff, Weekend Words thinks about falling.

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Weekend Words: Gifts

Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.

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Weekend Words: Apocalypto

If the Mayan calendar has it right, this is the last Weekend Words before the end of the world. Nice knowing you.

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Weekend Words: Drinking

At Weekend Words, it’s never too early, or too late, to start celebrating the holidays.

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Weekend Words: Bigness

With the announcement this week that Christo plans to build the world's largest sculpture, “The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi," at 492 feet high with a base measuring 984 by 738 feet, Weekend Words turns to bigness.

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Weekend Words: Shopping

Now that the Holiday Shopping Season is upon us, we turn first to someone who knew a thing or two about shopping

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An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors. This week, as portions of the city remain decimated by Hurricane Sandy, at Sotheby's and Christie’s nearly $1 billion was spent on contemporary art.