Depending on your taste, the Southeast Raleigh landmark qualified either as the world’s most eccentric trinket collection or a prize-winning pile of junk. On special mornings, you’d see the artist ...

“It’s difficult to get me to stop once I start talking about junk art,” he laughs. In Dhiraj’s world, all kinds of waste transforms into art. Screws from a drawer, a nut and an old earring ...

lamenting the state of New York junk. “Our stuff is just flimsier,” she said. “I can spot IKEA from a mile away.” Just then, her driver, the art handler Neo Gibson, clocked a steel object ...