“What is this indescribable event in a dancer’s life (when he loves dancing) that arises, given all the shit, the terrible hours of work, the grumbling and malaise of a company, the point-of-vertigo fatigue when he one day drops it all and dances…and some internal-infernal hook holds one at a peak for those few seconds, […] “What is this indescribable event in a dancer’s life (when he loves dancing) that…

China Miéville’s unabridged photo essay really speaks about our London, the city we live in. It’s a view that was mostly criticised when it was originally published (late 2011), as there was a consensual media blackout around the time of the London Riots/Olympics.

Before London-based artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler open The Museum of Non Participation: The New Deal Thursday, they’re guest-editing Art News From Elsewhere all week. Here’s a list of their top online news sources.

In a cost-cutting measure, the US Postal Service plans to sell the Bronx General Post Office. If a buyer steps up, what’ll become of the 13 murals Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson painted in its lobby in 1937? USPS has said there’s no plan to relocate the works.

Claes Oldenburg’s early installations, writes Blake Gopnik in a preview of MoMA’s show (opening Sunday), show “a frenetic, angry, even political side that has been lost in our concentration on him in his later, cheery Pop Art incarnation.”