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 ...
Welcome to “On the Block”: ELLE Decor’s series where we spotlight one spectacular piece going up for auction. Get your paddles ready. The Pennsylvania-born artist originally gifted Painted Wood to ...
Calder was in his twenties when he first moved to France. Now a series of new shows explores the American artist’s Gallic ...
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 ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Even people who don’t know art know Alexander Calder’s art. Forever ...
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 ...
Most people know Alexander Calder as the inventor of the mobile, a kinetic sculpture that hangs in space. But like his friend Georgia O'Keeffe, he is a familiar and beloved figure to such an extent ...
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 ...
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 ...