"Man on Wire" challenges our conceptions of human capabilities and limitations, and it doubles as a fascinating portrait of the artist as the burglar, as Marsh uses blurred, black-and-white ...

In 1974, just a year after the Twin Towers were completed, French tightrope artist Philip Petit set out to achieve his ultimate goal: to string and walk a wire between the Towers. The original CBS ...

39 years ago today, on August 7, 1974, street performer Philippe Petit traversed a tightrope between the Twin Towers in what many later called the “artistic crime of the century.” With no safety ...