A prominent New York art gallerist is battling with a famed art detective and the granddaughter of a Swiss architect over who is the true owner of a $8.7 million Alexander Calder sculpture—a dispute ...

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A 1959 mobile by American sculptor Alexander Calder will be offered as a highlight of Phillips 20th-century and contemporary art sale in New York in May, with a presale estimate between US$10.5 ...

American sculptor Alexander Calder was a radical figure who pioneered kinetic sculpture, bringing movement to static objects. Calder travelled to Paris in the 1920s, having originally trained as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Why must art be static?” Alexander Calder once asked, with a tinge of defiance. “The next step in sculpture is motion.” This question, or near challenge, impelled the artist to investigate mass and ...

On Wednesday morning in the atrium of the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, three people clutching long slender ropes looked as if they were trying to keep a zeppelin from blowing away in the ...

Thaddeus Mosley is describing how he will know when the sculpture he’s currently working on is finished. At 98, he spends his days as he has countless others: transforming mute, hefty logs into ...

What can a museum experience be now? Meet Calder Gardens. A leading architect, garden designer and philanthropist build a thrillingly eccentric complex for the inventor of the mobile. By Andrew ...