Artist Joan Stevens helps preserve Circus World Museum's historic wagon collection. As a teenager, Joan Stevens ran away with the carnival and fell in love with circus art. Today, she is helping ...

Walking around the grounds of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., with its palm trees and views of Sarasota Bay, a visitor can easily see what appealed to two Midwesterners ...

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 ...

DURAND, Wis. — Wisconsin bars are known for their pints and their patrons. About the last thing you'd expect to discover in such a place would be 55 feet of historic American artwork. "I was really ...

Like with many things he's done recently, Hockney is believed to have made the latest design on his iPad. David Hockney’s new artwork for the Piccadilly Circus station. Aaron Whittington / Facebook ...

A large-scale public art commission in the central area of London’s West End has launched for the summer. Artists associated with the Royal Academy of Arts have designed flags, painted pedestrian ...

Though she knew little about the circus when she joined The Ringling staff 27 years ago, Deborah Walk is now considered one of the top circus historians in the country, and she credits millions of ...

From tightrope to trapeze, circus arts have long fascinated and inspired people of all ages. Now, research is revealing the true value of circus skills and their unique ability to deliver significant ...

Sixteen-year-old Mariah Fraker waved her hands wildly as she described the moment seven years ago when she realized she wanted to be a circus performer. She was a fourth grader, hanging upside down ...