“They don’t seem to want to work in the winter, and when it rains too much, their silk becomes viscous and cannot be used” that sounds a lot like me! But seriously, these spiders produced a stunning work of art. Hopefully it will travel from the American Museum of Natural History (in NY) to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (in DC).
A detail of the textile, with its traditional Malagasy motifs. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
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in New York
and the 2 he would take with him:
The Crucifixion by Jan van Eyck
Mezzetin by Jean Antoine Watteau
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