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
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
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
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
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
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
Watch Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures in rare activations through videos shared by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Jill Magid Takes a Calder Mobile for a Spin at the Whitney Museum
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
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
SAN FRANCISCO — After a three-year closure, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopens to the public on May 14.
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A New Documentary Champions the Photographer Who Captured Wright, Calder, and Nevelson
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
PARIS — During springtime in Paris, one frequently meets beaming American newlyweds on their honeymoon.