Installation view of “Kinetics of Violence: Alexander Calder + Cady Noland” (2017) (all images courtesy Venus Over Manhattan) In its inaugural public showing, Alexander Calder’s large, late sculpture ...
“Why must art be static?” Alexander Calder once asked, with a tinge of defiance. “The next step in sculpture is motion.” This question, or near challenge, impelled the artist to investigate mass and ...
American sculptor Alexander Calder was born on this day in 1898. Celebrated for his abstract kinetic sculptures and his monumental public sculptures, Calder, together with minimalist artists such as ...
The retrospective was a watershed moment in the sculptor's career—and in art history—writes Jed Perl in his new book 'Calder: The Conquest of Space.' Alexander Calder holds a model of a mobile to be ...