Alone in a tower filled with the world’s largest display of sculptures by Alexander Calder. ✨ In this room filled with moving sculptures by Calder, giant mobiles are suspended in the sky. They turn and dance as you cohabit their space. One of the most extraordinary things about these deceptively gravity-defying objects is that they are supported by a force the size of your thumbnail: a tiny hook. In the mid-1930s, in addition to developing his classic mobiles, Calder began to explore the concept

Experiencing Calder’s mobiles firsthand is the only way to fully comprehend their multisensory brilliance, but this footage of Black Mobile with Hole in motion is an apt substitute. Unlike a photograph, the clip reveals how the sculpture carves new forms by way of its movements. As Sartre wrote in 1946, “These hesitations and resumptions, gropings and fumblings, sudden decisions, and, most especially, marvellous swan-like nobility make Calder’s mobiles strange creatures, mid-way between matter a

In the early 1930s, Alexander Calder’s mobiles provided a dynamic, new experience of sculpture that incorporated movement, activating their architectural settings and inviting viewers’ engagement. French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, once wrote that a Calder mobile is “a pure stream of movement in the same way as there are pure streams of light.” In this video, the High’s Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, Claudia Einecke, talks about this amazing work of art and gives a

Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated today as the American artist who made sculpture move. Although best known for his invention of the mobile‚ he worked in astonishingly varied media‚ including drawing‚ painting and sculpture‚ as well as set design for dance and music performances. Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor now open, NGV International. #NGV #NGVCalder • © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Copyright Agency, Australia. | National Gallery of Victoria

Experience works by Alexander Calder as the artist intended—in motion. Calder: Hypermobility features major examples of Calder’s work including early motor-driven abstractions, sound-generating Gongs, and standing and hanging mobiles. The exhibition includes daily activations, one-time demonstrations of rarely seen works, and new commissions that bring contemporary artists into dialogue with Calder’s innovations. Get tickets: http://bit.ly/2uG1WGg | Whitney Museum of American Art

Expand your knowledge of “Red, Black, Blue” by Alexander Calder! ▪️This 40-foot-wide mobile weighs 1,850 pounds and is comprised of 13 aluminum disks. ▪️It was commissioned by American Airlines in 1968 for Dallas’ Love Field airport. ▪️It moved to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport in 1973 and Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport in 1987. ▪️On one of his many trips to Milwaukee, Calatrava saw the artwork and wanted it to be the signature piece at the entrance to the Quadracci Pavilion. ▪️The cou

The Calder Sidewalk The Legendary Sculptor’s Immobile Creation in Rustic Terrazzo Alexander Calder is best known for his abstract mobiles. There are also his stabiles (as his nonmoving sculptures came to be known). Then there’s his sidewalk. The 75-foot piece of permanent sidewalk art is always on view, where it was first installed in 1970, stretched out in front of three avant-garde art galleries on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The sidewalk, with its abstract design, was created late in Calder’