A groundbreaking exhibition that reveals the extraordinary power and potential of contemporary origami, “Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami,” opens Sept. 2 at the Schaefer International ...

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

Jacob Zimet has been folding paper for seven years. That may not seem like a long time, but it’s more than half his life. At age 12, the Randolph origamist has participated in worldwide conventions ...

Wander along the garden’s paper trail! The 35th annual “Sakura Matsuri” cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend will celebrate Japanese culture with dozens of performances ...

Long before screens and styluses, entertainment came in the form of folded paper. One square. No cuts. No glue. Just folds. That’s all it took to create animals, flowers, boats, and birds that felt ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Robert Lang, who has worked as a physicist and engineer, and who edited a journal on quantum electronics, knows all about subjects like hexagonal symmetry and angle ...

There’s no denying its elegant beauty, but the importance of a designer’s dress pattern seems inconsequential among the examples of how the art of origami has played a role in engineering, ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.