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 ...

The retrospective was a watershed moment in the sculptor's career—and in art history—writes Jed Perl in his new book 'Calder: The Conquest of Space.' Alexander Calder holds a model of a mobile to be ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Alexander Calder's beguiling kinetic sculptures are among the most immediately recognizable works of American modern art. From his swaying suspended pieces and lively motor-activated sculptures — ...

Every generation has to bury earlier artists so that the new zeitgeist can be put forth. But, fortunately, a subsequent generation will unearth and rehabilitate the best of the banished. This seems to ...

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, ...

Chicagoans are already intimately familiar with Alexander Calder’s colorful sculptures and mobiles, said Caryn Rousseau in the Associated Press. Large-scale public works by the artist, “made from ...

Visitors to the first major exhibition of Alexander Calder’s art in Tokyo in nearly 35 years will view Un effet du japonais, a nearly 7-foot sculpture made in 1941 of sheet metal, wire, rod, and paint ...