The sign was missing a dot for the question mark, light leakage from ends of the individual segments was creating distracting bright spots on the base, ... Neon signs are attractive, ...

Born in Tiffin, Ohio, Flechtner had an early interest in colored light and electronics. He incorporated some of these ...

Another mark of neon’s hybridity: Its obsolescence started just as some contemporary artists began using the lights in their sculptures. Bruce Nauman’s 1968 work My Name as Though It Were ...