SIERRA DIABLO - Sheathed in a 500-foot deep silo bored into a mountain rising from this rugged stretch of West Texas is a wildly ambitious project to build a massive clock that would tick for 100 ...

Even if you've never read Kenneth Fearing's noir novel The Big Clock, it's likely you already know its basic story and its biggest twist: the book was (very) loosely adapted as the popular (and pretty ...

Tick tock, tick tock...it was only a few years ago when some trend watchers declared that any timepiece other than digital was certainly old-fashioned if not obsolete. Well, extinction didn't happen.

Alice Neel has a fascinatingly eccentric place in pop culture. A few years ago, I did a bunch of research to review her show at the Metropolitan Museum, but you don’t always get to use all the ...

For 17 years Thomas Manners, 52, helped to record the inexorable passage of time in London’s sprawling la^ courts. As a clock mechanic in the Ministry of Works, it was his duty to wind, inspect and ...