weather vane

When throngs of visitors move through the show, which started Nov. 8, they’ll create air currents, stirring the mobiles to move in a slow ballet of weather vanes.

A museum should not change directions like a weather vane but give us the reassurance that some things are timeless and provide us with the history and progression of art.

There are weather vanes with more firmly fixed positions.

Long an integral part of the social calendar, Germany’s roughly 500 Christmas markets have renewed importance as weather vanes of the national mood.

Others say she’s a weather vane, pivoting when it suits her advancement.