Philadelphia will soon be home to a new space dedicated to one of the city’s beloved native sons, sculptor Alexander Calder. Described as a “sanctuary”—and explicitly not a museum—the facility, ...

Plans for a new exhibition space and grounds to showcase the work of the late American artist Alexander Calder were unveiled this morning in Philadelphia. Calder Gardens, featuring an ...

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A $70 million “sanctuary” dedicated to Alexander Calder and his suspended mobile sculptures is expected to open in 2024. Denise Bright Dove Ashton-Dunkley (center) pours water on the ground where ...

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.

A career-spanning Alexander Calder exhibition in Paris turns the viewer into a collaborator and lifts the soul. By Emily LaBarge and Dmitry Kostyukov What can a museum experience be now? Meet Calder ...

What makes up an Alexander Calder sculpture? "Bustling centipedes, little crimson moons, water heavy as tears, and children with cherries all play between his fingers," marveled the poet André Massard ...

Alexander Calder is known for his use of movement in sculpture, but aside from some mobiles gently swaying, museum goers rarely get to witness that aspect of his work. Calder: Hypermobility at the ...

Standing in the presence of an Alexander Calder mobile can be spellbinding: the eye-catching geometric forms exquisitely balanced on wires, their captivating configurations continuously, subtly ...

Alexander Calder’s grandson allegedly torpedoed the $8 million sale of one of the famed sculptor’s pieces in order to “control and manipulate” the lucrative market for his grandpa’s art, a collector ...

Received several commissions for large-scale public sculpture, including a mobile for JFK Airport commissioned by Port Authority of New York and a stabile for UNESCO Paris headquarters Alexander ...