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Visit the urban neighborhood of Crystal City, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., and you’ll soon get acquainted with your noisy neighbor to the east—Reagan National Airport, one of the nation’s busiest. Rather than complain about the airplanes, the people of Crystal City decided to build their own. On April 13, in a block party raucous enough to compete with the whining jets, the city unveiled 50 airplane sculptures that will be displayed for six months on sidewalks and other public spaces story here

"Mood Indigo," by Byron Peck (sponsored by the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival) Photo by Roger Mola