This Saturday, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art opens The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithography Company, 1879-1939. The exhibit, which showcases the circus’ influence on ...

The Whitney’s 100th anniversary exhibition of Alexander Calder’s sculpted circus shows an artist at play, and creates a fantastical world.

The Ringling Museum of Art is turning into a three-ring circus -- and visitors can step right up and be a part of it. If you want to get a sense of what it's like to walk on a high wire, or squeeze ...

Long before YouTube videos, action movies and reality TV, there was the circus. In arenas and big tops across the United States, clowns, acrobats, tightrope walkers and sword swallowers performed ...

Although circus may seem like an idea of merriment of a bygone era, its large posters with vivid colours continues to enamour a collector. VADODARA: Although circus may seem like an idea of merriment ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Communist Party limited most ...

PROVIDENCE — Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, step right up! For your viewing pleasure: wonderments and freaks, feats of artistic bravado, and disturbing evidence of colonialist bigotry! “Circus” ...

See Nicholas D. Lowry appraise a Neal Walters circus poster & woodblocks, ca. 1950, in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and ...

All Ron Berger wanted was to install a door between two buildings. Instead, much to his astonishment, he opened a window into the early history of Durand, Wisconsin, on Labor Day weekend 2015 when he ...

“PROFESSOR” MANUEL HERZOG, irreproachably garbed as beseems a representative of that most carefully and expensively costumed enterprise, a modern circus, had just come out of the ring in which he had ...