Installation view of NEON: The Charged Line at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (all photos by Phill Heywood, all images courtesy Grundy Art Gallery) BLACKPOOL, UK — In White Noise, novelist Don ...

AKRON, Ohio – Things are about to become brighter at the Akron Art Museum. The “Glow: Neon & Light” exhibit opens in the museum’s Arnstein Galleries on Sept. 21. The exhibit showcases artists who ...

A 1970s Pep Boys sign was abandoned when the car company changed its logo to remove Manny's cigar. Courtesy Museum of Neon Art This 1930s neon sign from a Little Tokyo camera shop is double-sided.

Neon art is elemental (in the periodic table kind of way). Sure, plenty of sculpture is made out of gold, silver, copper or iron, but these are all fairly run-of-the-mill metals. They behave in fairly ...

A revival of fantastic, flickering signs is illuminating roadside America, from legendary Route 66 to the Vegas strip. Around 250 vintage signs fill the outdoor “boneyard” at the Neon Museum Las Vegas ...

For almost a century, Hong Kong's streets were illuminated by countless thousands of neon signs. However, the emergence of modern advertising methods such as light-emitting diode displays, or LEDs, ...

Nostalgic neon from Spokane’s past glows by dusk each night in the yard of Chris and Liz Bovey’s West Plains home. The original signs once adorned favorite haunts – most gone now – like White Elephant ...

Devoted foodies and restaurant newbies love The Feed. Sign-up now for our twice weekly newsletter. From the “open” sign at your hometown House of Pizza to the blinking beer ads in the windows of your ...

There are many things that go into what makes a big city. A city has to have tall buildings, style and culture, a baseball team and an opera. It has to have a past and a future. A big city has to have ...

Most of us are familiar with neon as a term for bright colors and vibrant signs, but you may not know as much about the element underlying the name, which scientists were first able to isolate ...