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 ...
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 ...
In 1925, Alexander Calder joined the circus—in a sense. As an illustrator for the National Police Gazette, he was dispatched to cover the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at New York’s ...
An ambitious exhibition that tries to get its arms around the breadth of Alexander Calder’s output is opening at the Museum of Modern Art this weekend. That’s no easy task, it turns out. Just look at ...
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 ...
RMIT has a memorandum of understanding with the National Gallery of Victoria. “This is no ordinary painting – it is a living picture that moves!” So says one of the “For kids” labels in the National ...
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Master of the mobile, king of the kinetic, an innovator beyond compare. These labels only begin to define the genius of Alexander Calder. A small but definitive selection of his work is on display ...
A show drawn primarily from the museum’s collection and archives tells the story of its relationship with this early favorite. By Roberta Smith Where the Museum of Modern Art is concerned, the ...