Most people think of mobiles as simple children’s toys designed to distract babies and help them fall asleep. Yet the origin of this soothing gewgaw actually marked an important turning point in the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Even people who don’t know art know Alexander Calder’s art. Forever ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976 by Jed Perl Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976 (Knopf, 2020) is the second and final volume of Jed Perl’s exhaustively ...

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A new Calder show in Tokyo features around 100 works from the Calder Foundation’s collection spanning the 1920s to the 1970s. Photo : Tadayuki Minamoto , © 2024 ...