Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty: At the Musée du Louvre

Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty unfolded in the Cour Marly of the Musée du Louvre on a July evening in 2025. Over three acts—Red, Wings, and Pyramid— Jordan Roth fused the disciplines of fashion, art, and architecture in an embodiment of the radical possibilities of self-becoming. This publication documents the performance in a vivid sequence of images, delves into the art-historical depths of its references—from Classical Greece to the Second French Empire, John Galliano to I. M. Pei—and, in an illuminating essay by scholar Tavia Nyong’o, traces the lineage of beauty as a radical act, combining histories of performance, self-representation, and critical theory. Through its choice of sumptuous materials—beautiful papers, inserts, and gatefolds—the book Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty renders the texture of the performance of the same name, echoing its spatial and sensory experience. 

Jordan Roth is an artist, actor and seven-time Tony Award–winning producer whose practice sits at the intersection of performance, art, and fashion.