Alexander Calder, in Paris in 1930, with Cirque Calder, 1926–31. Photo by George Hoyningen-Huene, © George Hoyningen-Huene/Condé Nast via Getty Images, © 2025 ...
Alexander Calder, Calder's Circus, detail of ringmaster (1926–31); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (© 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photograph Ron ...
Christie’s has secured the consignment of a mobile by Alexander Calder made of wood from early in the artist’s career. Specialists expect the work, the leading lot of the Christie’s 20th Century ...
“A master of form, fun, lightness, and surprise,” Alexander Calder is “the one 20th-century artist whom probably no one has ever disliked,” said Willard Spiegelman in The Wall Street Journal. With the ...
Twenty-five years ago, Philadelphia officials approved a proposal for a small site along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to house a museum dedicated to the work of Alexander Calder (1898–1976), the ...
One of Philadelphia’s favorite sculptors, from one of its most renowned family’s of artists, now has a museum of his own. Calder Gardens celebrates the work of Alexander Calder and opened on the ...
What artists have (or deserve) a museum of their own? To the list of the famous and the eccentric—Chagall, Dalí, Kahlo, Klee, Matisse, O’Keeffe, Picasso, Van Gogh and Warhol, pick your favorite—we may ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The long-awaited Calder Gardens is ready for exploration. "This is a gift for the city of Philadelphia," says Juana Berrío, the Marsha Perelman Senior Director of Programs for ...
“Alexander Calder in Saché,” by John Russell, was originally published in the July 1967 issue of Vogue. In this new France, the sons of yesterday's gamekeepers and handymen are more likely to give you ...
Nestled inside a thicket of highways in central Philadelphia, thousands of young plants are just beginning to show the golds and reds of fall. Butterflies linger in large swaths of purple salvia amid ...
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“The idea is that you get lost, or at least you get disoriented, in a really interesting way,” says Juana Berrío, the director of programs for Calder Gardens, who guides me, with William McDowell, the ...