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 ...

A career-spanning Alexander Calder exhibition in Paris turns the viewer into a collaborator and lifts the soul.

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens' horticultural ode to Alexander Calder's sculptures and mobiles creates an adult playground.

Three pieces of wire and string, a clothespin, a cork – these humble materials gave rise to the famous sculptures of American artist Alexander Calder, now on majestic display at the Louis Vuitton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people think of mobiles as simple children’s toys designed to distract babies and help them fall asleep. Yet the origin of this soothing gewgaw actually marked an important turning point in the ...

The US artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) did not invent hanging sculptures but with his mobiles he took them to a new level of mastery and innovation. This month, an exhibition of almost 300 works ...

But unfortunately, the never-ending list of how entitled people behave badly in museums has a new entry.