David Byrne has mastered a persona of eclectic vision, but the title of his latest album, 'Who Is the Sky?', was inspired by a strange, if mundane, situation.

It's a fresh way to bring visitors to Lansing, Michigan, a longtime car-building town.

A yellow, glass-eyed Seahorse with wheel-bearing eye sockets stared out at the crowd over its damper nose. The towering humanoid robot called Megascrap 25 was probably the most car-part-heavy ...