The effort to reunite two halves of Alexander Calder’s monumental “Mountains and Clouds” hit many snags, until donors and ...

When Alexander Calder was 11, he made his parents two small animal figurines for Christmas: a dog and a duck, both sculpted from sheets of brass. The dog stood on four legs, with its tail positioned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calder Gardens, the new museum under construction on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with indoor and outdoor galleries displaying the art of sculptor Alexander "Sandy" Calder, will open in September, ...

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 ...

American sculptor Alexander Calder was born on this day in 1898. Celebrated for his abstract kinetic sculptures and his monumental public sculptures, Calder, together with minimalist artists such as ...

A longtime art piece that has hung from the ceiling of Pittsburgh International Airport on and off for almost 70 years will soon have a new home for travelers to view. "Pittsburgh," the kinetic mobile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The downtown Genesee streetscape just got more artistic with the restoration of the sculpture Three Arches by Alexander Calder to ...