Anthony Holand, who grew up in the Tri-Cities, works inside the Tuck & Holand Metal Sculptors studio in Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Alex Gagne Having grown up in the windy Tri-Cities ...

A weather vane will show you the direction the wind is moving. It's a great addition to your DIY weather station. On your cardboard or plate (if using a plate, flip it upside down) write ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. Once practical instruments for predicting storms, weathervanes have become precious pieces of folk art. Weathervanes are ...

Look up to the sky on pinnacles, cupolas, at the top of barns, churches, businesses, and homes. There you will find, turning in the wind, the functional art form known as the weathervane. At one time, ...

When William Penn and two of his business partners commissioned a weather vane to top their grist mill near Philadelphia, it told them which way the wind was blowing. The vane also was a sign for the ...

Drill a hole in the centre of the block of wood and insert the dowel stick. Alternatively, you can glue the stick to the wood. Paint the block, allow it to dry and then varnish. When it is dry, use a ...

The humble weathervane just might be the earliest form of kinetic art. As the winds of art history blew firmly in the direction of Modernism during the early 20th century, some US artists began to ...

There’s an idea in our culture that something new always needs to be happening. We have an obsession with the idea of one-upping ourselves, doing something bigger and better than we’ve done before, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Llanfyllin is a town of 1,500 souls in the middle of Wales, surrounded by hills. The buildings along its high street ...