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An Online Haven for Lovers of Alexander Calder

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 5, 2021March 11, 2021

The Calder Foundation’s archive is now online, illuminating the American sculptor’s art and life in an unprecedented way.

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How Alexander Calder Made Modern Art Move

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez April 25, 2020April 24, 2020

In the second volume of a definitive biography, the art critic Jed Perl recalls how the innovative artist revolutionized sculpture.

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A Map of Alexander Calder’s New York

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick November 11, 2019November 8, 2019

Today, on the anniversary of the artist’s death, we chart a few New York spots that were meaningful to Calder — from Greenwich Village to the Upper East Side, and some zip codes in between.

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A Creative Colony of Modernists in Coastal France

by Joseph Nechvatal May 27, 2019May 29, 2019

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen’s display of artists living and working independently, but together, reinforces the modernist commitment to internationalist values.

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The Making of a Modernist in the First-Ever Biography of Alexander Calder

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez December 16, 2017December 16, 2017

Jed Perl makes the case that Calder was both an avant-gardist and a populist.

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The Violent Forms of Alexander Calder And Cady Noland

by James Gibbons December 16, 2017December 15, 2017

The dialogue among four works — two by each artist — ​suggests​ a dissonant string quartet​ ​as each ​piece asserts its distinctive timbre and range.

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Watch Alexander Calder’s Kinetic Sculptures in Rarely Activated Motion

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 4, 2017October 4, 2017

Watch Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures in rare activations through videos shared by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Installation view of Calder: Hypermobility at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo by Ron Amstutz, courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Jill Magid Takes a Calder Mobile for a Spin at the Whitney Museum

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 25, 2017September 26, 2017

Magid will activate one of Calder’s standing mobile sculptures whose base and top were mismatched and separated in the 1960s.

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Perpetuating the Idea that Modernism Triumphed by Appropriating “Tribal” Art

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 5, 2017June 5, 2017

For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.

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Amid a Challenging, Changing City, SFMOMA Reopens with Global Aspirations

by Caille Millner April 29, 2016April 29, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO — After a three-year closure, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopens to the public on May 14.

Pedro E. Guerrero, self-portrait, circa 1950s, New York City (© 2015 Pedro E. Guerrero Archives)
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A New Documentary Champions the Photographer Who Captured Wright, Calder, and Nevelson

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 17, 2015September 17, 2015

Photographers who shoot the work of famous artists are rarely celebrated in their own right, but a new documentary shifts the focus onto the man responsible for some of the most iconic images we have of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson.

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Revisiting Postwar American Art in Paris

by Joseph Nechvatal June 4, 2015June 4, 2015

PARIS — During springtime in Paris, one frequently meets beaming American newlyweds on their honeymoon.

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