And if I want clumsy homages to 2001: A Space Odyssey, I'll head to a sixth-form college short-film night.
The Hepworth gallery museums in Wakefield and in St Ives are wonderful homages to her life and practice, but in rooting her so comprehensively in the place she grew up and in the place where she lived and died, visitors are perhaps in danger of denying Barbara Hepworth her due in the pantheon of international 20th-century art.
The idea of tidying up our lives, ridding ourselves of material clutter, is ancient and enduring, a practical and emotional goal we're constantly trying to achieve – check out "storage solutions" on Pinterest to see almost fetish-like homages to tidiness.
First, from the platform speeches to the gift shop, the ubiquitous homages to "Our Maggie" were a reminder of the late Margaret Thatcher's lasting sway over her party.
Innovations such as hip-hop dance displays and (still rare) 15th birthday parties for boys are blamed squarely on America.In San Antonio, Lexington can report, hot trends include homages to Paris involving large models of the Eiffel Tower, cakes with cheetah-skin icing (zebra-stripe icing is so 2012) and mock military uniforms for boy escorts.
He also makes shopworn Paris into his kind of city riotously multicultural, as Paris these days is, colourful but a tiny bit claustrophobic and wallpapered with homages to past greats.
The chance to see so many of their homages, borrowings, variations and return shots side by side is simply not to be missed.
Predictably from art-school graduates, the art is loaded with homages and precedents.
And when China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, stresses the need to maintain growth, as he did last weekend, his words carry more weight with the markets than similar homages to growth from Europe's leaders.
It was the first of De Palma's many homages to Hitchcock, featuring aspects of Psycho (1960) and Rear Window (1954) and music by Bernard Herrmann, who had scored a number of the British director's films.
The Visp-rat is a lesser liturgical scripture, containing homages to a number of Zoroastrian spiritual leaders.
