In 1933, Alexander Calder began to transform a rundown farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, into a family home which he shared with his wife Louisa and growing family and kept until the end of his life.

Alexander Calder, “Mountains and Clouds” (designed 1976, completed 1986) (photo by Jim Fruchterman/Flickr) It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but members of the US Senate are pondering the ...

When Alexander Calder was 11, he made his parents two small animal figurines for Christmas: a dog and a duck, both sculpted from sheets of brass. The dog stood on four legs, with its tail positioned ...

After years of staying still, Alexander Calder’s mobiles are fluttering back to life. Nearly 30 of his dangling, delicate contraptions and another eight motorized sculptures are in motion once more at ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art could be titled "Honey, I shrunk the Calder!" U.S. sculptor Alexander Calder may be best known for large-scale mobiles, ...

Alexander Calder, famous for his mobiles and stabiles, is having a moment. Next week, the long-awaited Calder Gardens will open in Philadelphia, and next month, the Whitney Museum in New York will ...

Thirty eager adults wind their way to the top floor of the National Gallery of Art's recently renovated East Building. Their destination is a stunning skylit tower gallery of Alexander Calder works ...

Calder’s mobile sculptures were designed to move, and that original intent is at the core of the Whitney Museum’s current exhibition of his sculptures, Hypermobility. Each piece has a prescribed way ...

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 ...

What do we make of the subtitle of Jed Perl's new biography of Alexander Calder, "The Conquest of Time"? It sounds like a "Star Trek" movie. The answer comes two-thirds of the way through this shaggy ...