Every generation has to bury earlier artists so that the new zeitgeist can be put forth. But, fortunately, a subsequent generation will unearth and rehabilitate the best of the banished. This seems to ...
A prominent New York art gallerist is battling with a famed art detective and the granddaughter of a Swiss architect over who is the true owner of a $8.7 million Alexander Calder sculpture—a dispute ...
Calder was in his twenties when he first moved to France. Now a series of new shows explores the American artist’s Gallic ...
Thaddeus Mosley is describing how he will know when the sculpture he’s currently working on is finished. At 98, he spends his days as he has countless others: transforming mute, hefty logs into ...
Elements of Alexander Calder’s “Trepied” (1972) in Shigeru Ban Architects’ design for the Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport (image courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects) What is it about Alexander Calder ...
Alexander Calder’s grandson allegedly torpedoed the $8 million sale of one of the famed sculptor’s pieces in order to “control and manipulate” the lucrative market for his grandpa’s art, a collector ...
Philadelphia is about to get another world class art museum. Calder Gardens, a museum dedicated to the work of famed sculptor Alexander "Sandy" Calder, is now officially under construction and on ...
Before you knew what “art” was. Before you could even walk or talk, Alexander Calder was influencing your life. If your parents hung a mobile over your crib, he was. Calder can’t be credited for ...
Most people know Alexander Calder as the inventor of the mobile, a kinetic sculpture that hangs in space. But like his friend Georgia O'Keeffe, he is a familiar and beloved figure to such an extent ...