For its final performances ever, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will dance this weekend underneath “pixel clouds” created by Daniel Arsham—a constellation of orbs showing iPhone photos he took from airplane windows while on tour with the company.

“Approachable and avant-garde,” performing artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of the year’s best artists, writes hip hop artist Guante, who praises Bamuthi’s skill in using “art as an entry point to engage in real, sustainable community activism.”

Asked to name a song that best evokes winter, choreographer Bill T. Jones selected a song from Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise (Winter Journey),” which sparked a childhood memory of his father, “broke and sick” and walking through the snow to his factory job.

Wim Wenders, in an interview on his new film on the dance works of the late Pina Bausch, on how 3-D technology has changed how filmmakers approach dance: “I have a feeling it will be difficult to shoot dance any other way.”

Among artists named USA Fellows for 2011—which comes with a $50,000 check from USA Artists—are many with Walker ties, but a special congratulations to locals making the cut, including choreographer Morgan Thorson and composer Mary Ellen Childs.

Citing work with artists as diverse as Young Jean Lee, Bill T. Jones and Laurie Anderson, Coolhunting profiles the Walker’s Philip Bither, “one of the most progressive curators of the interdisciplinary arts.” News to us: His grandfather was a jazz banjo player.

“Mondays with Merce” screens the last interview done with legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham. Filmed in 2009, a month before his death, the then-90-year old recalls road-tripping (and foraging) with John Cage, David Tudor, and others.

“[I]t seems that many of the visual arts curators currently working to promote visual arts performance lack knowledge in contemporary performance,” writes Andy Horwitz, “and I think this presents a problem, as well as a challenge.”