Channeling that Nervous Energy: The Museum of Nervous Energy (MoNE), founded by artist Hai Knafo, is a grassroots museum aimed at celebrating works of spontaneous, often seemingly mundane, creativity. The MoNE currently showcases mainly Knafo’s work (which uses everything from forks to bricks to watermelons to cash) but is always accepting new submissions. Knafo’s daughter, Hannah, is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to bring the beauty of nervous energy to a wider audience. She says of her father: “He made a decision not to spend money on art materials, and this almost became an ideological pursuit. Hai’s artistic goals in retirement have been to make art cheaply, spontaneously, creatively, freely, humorously and genuinely.” No paint? No problem. Hai’s work and the mission of the museum remind us that art can be made with something as simple as dollar bills or toothpicks.

United 93 Memorial Opens: Fourteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks devastated the United States and world at large, the National Park Service has opened a memorial site for the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 in Somerset County, PA. The memorial site includes a visitor center, outdoor complex, and museum; visitors can hear audio clips from passengers’ last calls to their families and watch an animated exhibit about the harrowing last moments of the flight, as passengers bravely seized controls from the terrorists and prevented a fourth major attack. May the memorial remind visitors for generations to come of the incredible bravery of the passengers and the lives they saved.

Dancing to a Different Beat: A relatively new dance genre called “Litefeet” is gaining recognition around the world. Characterized by jumps and “fast floaty footwork” performed to music and chants, Litefeet contrasts with the focus in break-dancing on getting down on the floor. One early adopter, a performer who goes by SpaceMan King, argues “It was a dance of the community.” Tracing back to a performance at a basketball game in Harlem in 2005 and for years confined to subway stations in NYC, Litefeet has now found its way into music videos for the likes of Pharrell and P. Diddy. One performer, Kidd Patt, says that “people ask what kind of dance I’m doing…My goal is to have them be, like, Oh, that’s litefeet!” With moves ranging from the “Chicken Noodle Soup” to the “Bad One,” Litefeet has people expanding their definitions of dance and exploring new ways to move!

Concert Halls as Refuge: Several recent books, including Michael Harris’s “The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection,” are focusing on our ever-diminishing attention spans. One antidote to this trend may very well be classical music. Requiring audience members to sit down and face front for long lengths of time, pieces such as piano sonatas, symphonies, and operas offer an experience increasingly unlike anything else in our web-driven world. New York Times writer Anthony Tommasini argues that classical music–be it in the concert hall or the opera house–offers patrons something quite rare, as even religious services and college seminars become increasingly tech-dominated.