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From the archives in 1989, Anthony Garrett looks at the popular quests to uncover perpetual motion - and why they always came up empty

HAVE WE ALL BEEN SLEEPING on Carrie Mae Weems? The question might sound counterintuitive, considering the esteem with which the artist has been held since her emergence in the 1980s—if not altogether off the mark, given the successes she has enjoyed in the past year. Highlights include a MacArthur “genius” award, a magisterial display of her “Museum” series at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the star-studded “Past Tense/Future Perfect” conference organized around her work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the last stop of “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Phot...

While you can definitely ask a friend whether Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is really worth reading, you won’t know if they’re right until you slog through all seven volumes yourself. After all, the proof is in the pudding—or the best way to determine the value of something is to experience it firsthand. As is often the case with idioms, this one was originally meant quite literally. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, the earliest known written reference to the phrase comes from English antiquarian William Camden’s 1623 volume Remains Concerning Britain; and ...