The couple collaborated on vastly complicated, photogenic and fleeting art projects that transformed urban and remote sites, and presaged the Instagram era. The Pont Neuf effort, which went on ...

While poets have only 17 syllables to capture a fleeting sense of nature in the Japanese art of haiku, other masters work similar magic with a handful of flowers in the art known as Ikebana.

The men use long metal funnels called chakpurs to deposit fine-grained colored sand in a concentric geometric pattern, following centuries-old traditions to construct fleeting works of art that ...