Inventing often combines more than one old ideas into a new one. Even when the fused things are similar, the result can be more valuable than the sum of its parts. Unlike those analog watches with a ...

When the resources are available, artists frequently turn to the creation of spectacle, from the majesty of sacred architecture to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s surreal interruptions of landscapes. At ...

A line spirals out from the fountain and wraps around the interior perimeter of the “Brutalist donut” that is the Hirshhorn Museum, spilling out onto the plaza beside the National Mall. Several ...

Light from a ring of LEDs reflects repeatedly between two mirrors, making many images of the LEDs and creating the illusion of a deep hole. One of the mirrors is half-silvered so that it can reflect, ...