Seurat has done a no-no in painting. He has placed the main figure in the dead center of the work. These leads to a stilted composition, freezing movement and flattening the canvas.

Georges Seurat’s Pierrot and Colombine. Courtesy Kasama Nichido Museum of Art Before the circus of contemporary art begins next week, visit a circus at the Met.

Feb. 21, 2017 5:16 pm ET Share Resize Georges Seurat, 'Circus Sideshow,' 1887–88 Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

The Pointillist’s mysterious nighttime depiction of a circus troupe performing in a working-class district of Paris, from 1878-88, received little attention when it was first sh ...

Courtesy of The Met and the artist. Taking as its focus one of The Met's most captivating masterpieces, this thematic exhibition will afford a unique context for appreciating the heritage and allure ...

A new exhibition, Seurat’s Circus Sideshow, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, places this masterpiece in context – beside related studies as well as works by other 19th-Century ...

“Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” which opens Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, is MoMA doing what it does best. The breathtaking show of more than 135 works — primarily conté drawings, along with ...

Georges Seurat’s masterwork, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” figures prominently in the musical being revived by Signature Theatre in Arlington. (Art Institute of ...