Foster's Daily Democrat

Before TV there was Tableaux Vivant

Your whole family wants to be entertained, but there’s no TV. There are no movies, no phones, not even radio. There’s no electricity because it is 1860. A deadly civil war is about to tear the United ...
The New York Times

Tableaux Vivants of Other Days in Which New York Society Beauties Have Posed; On Many Past Occasions They Have Co-operated in This Kind of Entertainment, Which Combines ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Orange County Register

Pageant of the Masters goes on a tour of art colonies

As the Pageant of the Masters, the yearly performances of tableaux vivants, or living pictures, turns 90 this year, its organizers have titled it “Art Colony: In the Company of Artists.” Given that ...
Inverse

The Mannequin Challenge Is Really a Victorian Era Throwback

If you’ve been on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram over the past month, you’ve probably come across a Mannequin Challenge video, in which people strike a frozen pose as Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” ...