Alexander Calder presented some 20 pieces of abstract sculpture that would turn out to be a game changer—for Calder, for the Parisian avant-garde, and for the art of sculpture in the 20th century.

Alexander Calder’s development of his iconic mobiles begins with ... This visit makes Calder realize that abstract art can become something physical and three-dimensional: an all-encompassing ...

After years of anticipation, Calder Gardens — a multilayered cultural space — has revealed an opening date. Nestled on the ...

Alexander Calder’s iconic kinetic mobiles originated after a visit ... Inspired, Calder left the studio and within a year had done what Mondrian declined to: made abstract art move. So we were tickled ...

Alexander Calder (1898-1976 ... This US-born artist fused artistic sensibility with his engineering training to invent the kinetic abstract mobile: the kind of moving sculpture with which he ...

A Mark Rothko abstract painting sold for $11 million at ... including sculptor Alexander Calder. Rothko's 1953 work, "No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green)," was the top lot of a sale that saw bidders ...

Here, since 1953, Alexander ... paintings showing through the glass. A big refectory table, gray from years in rain and sun, stood out in the open. We pulled up some iron chairs and sat down while ...

When the famed physicist Albert Einstein visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the story goes, an abstract mobile by the celebrated American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976 ...