The NFCA have extensive collections covering popular travelling entertainment with a strength in fairground show family collections, circus, worlds’ fairs and expositions, as well as thousands of ...

When they split in ’76, he, Jaimoe and Lamar Williams started jamming and spinning jazz records. Inspired by “everybody from ...

“The reason the prints are so large is that Audubon wanted to present all the birds at life size,” explains Scott Krafft, curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. “This ...

By Bruce Schoenfeld The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to fib for a relative, especially when you don’t think the ends justify the means. By Kwame Anthony Appiah In an interview ...

British rock band Sleeper were catapulted to fame in ... gave her 'control' over her work after years in the 'ludicrous circus' of the music industry. Saying: '[In a band] You'd find yourself ...

Circus patrons were encouraged to inspect the generator wagons, designated as "P.T. Barnum" and "J.A. Bailey," when they were on the Showgrounds. (Chris Berry Collection) Chris Berry, a circus ...

For more information on the hearing aid collection, email Don Nielsen, director of clinical education and translational research at the Audiology Clinic. Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or ...

The new Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, coming to the XL Center in Hartford May 3-5, is about massive artful distraction.

Bela Tarr, Peter Weir, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nancy Savoca, and Mikhail Kalatozov: The best of Criterion's new releases for April ...

Fossett's Circus has been travelling the roads of Ireland for 99 years. However, despite loyal support and financial help from the arts council, they say that it's not enough. New entrants to the ...

Experimental art collective Meow Wolf aims to turn Los Angeles' most ritualistic experience — that is, the act of going to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is usually akin to a 14-ring musical circus — a variety of musical acts playing simultaneously on stages spread throughout the ...