It was Dadaist Marcel Duchamp who first took to calling Alexander Calder’s hanging sculptures “mobiles,” a connection that takes on great significance in the context of a show opening November 24 at ...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - He is revered as one of the most influential artists of his time, and credited with inventing the mobile back in the 1930s. American artist Alexander Calder made a profound ...
Calder was in his twenties when he first moved to France. Now a series of new shows explores the American artist’s Gallic ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Calder Gardens will be built along the Parkway in Philadelphia in 2023, pairing Alexander Calder’s famous mobiles with natural landscaping. A rendering shows the Vestige Garden at Calder Gardens, ...
A collector says the Calder Foundation sunk the value of an $8 million mobile by Alexander Calder by deciding it was too damaged to still be viewed as a work by the artist. By Graham Bowley The ...
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Photographer Alan Sislen, Pride and Belonging in African Art, and a celebration of the most influential women artists of the 20th and 21st centuries are among the most exciting exhibits this spring.