Monocle on Saturday, May 6, 2023: We bring you the weekend’s biggest discussion points with Georgina Godwin including the coronation of King Charles III. Vincent McAviney reviews the papers, Andrew Mueller recaps the week and Monocle’s Sophie Monaghan-Coombs examines the history of milk.
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 8, 2023
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 8, 2023 ISSUE
Culture Wars Are Hitting Companies. How They’re Fighting Back.
Bud Light is the latest casualty in a battle over whether companies are embracing too many progressive goals on everything from gender identity to climate change. What’s at stake as companies fight back.
Thinking of Buying Bank Stocks? You’ll Need a Strong Stomach.
No one wants to buy bank stocks ahead of a recession, says UBS analyst Erika Najarian.
Weight-Loss Drugs Will Be Blockbusters. Here’s the Stock to Buy.
Everyone is talking about Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic. Now, the drugs are poised to go from conversation starters to profit makers.
Biofuel Stocks Are Sputtering. They Could Get a Jump Start.
An industry reckoning over carbon credits could refresh the market for renewables derived from things such as cooking oil and cow manure. These beaten-down stocks that could get a lift once headwinds subside.
Front Page: The New York Times -Saturday, May 6, 2023
Walensky Resigns as C.D.C. Director
In an announcement on Friday, the head of the beleaguered agency said she would step down in June. “We made this world a safer place,” she said.
2 Days, 17 Dead, 21 Wounded: Back to Back Massacres Rock Serbia
A day after Serbia’s first mass shooting in seven years, a second one left the small country in shock and its president called for a radical reduction in gun ownership.
Living and Breathing on the Front Line of a Toxic Chemical Zone
As the Biden administration moves to curb health threats caused by toxic chemicals, the debate hits home for families living near petrochemical plants.
Tightening Supreme Court Ethics Rules Faces Steep Hurdles
Revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose largess from a Republican donor have highlighted a dilemma.
Architecture: A Tour Of 1929 Frank Lloyd Wright ‘Westhope’ Home In Tulsa
The mansion, constructed in 1929 is one of only three Wright-designed structures in Oklahoma and one of only a handful of homes constructed at this scale. It is made with alternating piers of square glass windows and cement “textile” blocks. A limited number of such concrete block homes were built in between Wright’s better-known Prairie and Usonian houses, making Westhope a remarkable rare jewel. It is one of the largest residences Wright ever built.
Architectural Digest waxed poetic about the beauty of Westhope in a 2022 article: True to Wright’s nature-inspired “organic architecture” ethos, furniture, built-in cabinets, and drawers at the home are all constructed of similar wood, achieving the visual and spatial harmony for which his signature aesthetic is known. Built for Wright’s cousin, Tulsa Tribune publisher Richard Lloyd Jones, it is awash in natural light. Its walls seamlessly integrate concrete blocks with 5,200 glass panes arranged in pillar-like forms, creating a vertical pattern streaming pretty natural light into the interior while keeping all who enter visually connected to the ever-changing landscape.
The home’s distinctly public and private spaces make it perfect for entertaining and eminently livable. At slightly more than 10,000 square feet, there are 5 bedrooms, 4.1 baths and a large reception area which flows into the dining room. The home’s placement on the 1.5 acre grounds is classic Frank Lloyd Wright. He nestled it perfectly among the trees and added a lovely pool and outdoor living spaces. To purchase Westhope is to become the steward of a living masterpiece, a timeless treasure, an iconic residence awaiting its next great chapter.
Music: Delirium Musicum & Etienne Gara Play Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons – Summer 1’
Etienne Gara & Delirium Musicum
Antonio Vivaldi, Philip Glass, Max Richter
“In a world where climate change is at the heart of our attention, these eight delightfully unhinged seasons are scattered across a wildly singular time. They cast an artistic blur on our perception of what has always seemed taken for granted, unshakeable: the seasons with their established climates, our perception of time and space, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons…”
Discover the complete work and more on their SEASONS album: https://w.lnk.to/seasonsLY
Hurricanes: The Science Behind Their Destruction
Video timeline: 00:00 – What are tropical cyclones? 00:46 – The history of tropical cyclones 02:06 – How do they form? 04:33 – What happens when they reach land? 07:13 – What is the impact of climate change?
Arts Insider: Masterpieces That Have Inspired ‘AI Art’
Video timeline: 00:16 Upper Belvedere: The Kiss (Lovers) by Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908 01:33 Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel, 1563 02:33 Leopold Museum: Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant by Egon Schiele, 1912
See the art behind AI art on https://www.wien.info/en/unartificialart
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this week opens Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, the latest in the hugely successful Costume Institute exhibitions. The German designer, who died in 2019, was also the inspiration for this year’s Met Gala, the museum’s star-studded fundraiser.
We talk to Stephanie Sporn, a fashion historian and arts and culture writer, about the exhibition, the gala and the controversy around Lagerfeld’s offensive comments about a range of issues. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Good Housekeeping III (1985/2023) by the British artist Marlene Smith. She was part of the Blk Art Group, a collective of young Black British artists active in the late 1970s and 1980s, which is the subject of The more things change…, an exhibition at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK.
Smith has re-created the work, first made in 1985, for the show, and tells us more about its making, its context, and the history of the Blk Art Group. Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 16 July.The more things change…, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, until 9 July.
Travel Films: ‘Winter In The Scottish Highlands’
The Scottish Highlands are a mountainous region encompassing northwest Scotland. Loch Ness is at the centre, overlooked by the ruins of medieval Urquhart Castle and known for mythical monster “Nessie”. Northeast, near the city of Inverness, dolphins swim in the Moray Firth. Southwest, in the Western Highlands, trails wind up Ben Nevis, the U.K.’s highest peak, and red deer roam Glencoe valley with its waterfalls.
360° Travel: A Tour Of The Old City Of Jerusalem
Shops and markets selling prayer shawls, rosaries, and ceramics fill busy alleys, while food stalls serve falafel, pita, and fresh-squeezed juice. In a medieval citadel, the Tower of David museum chronicles the city’s history.
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