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 ...
Anyone who’s visited a contemporary art museum in the past 75 years has almost certainly encountered the artwork of Alexander Calder. His delicately balanced mobiles and swooping steel sculptures are ...
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 ...
A collector says the Calder Foundation sunk the value of an $8 million mobile by Alexander Calder by deciding it was too damaged to still be viewed as a work by the artist. By Graham Bowley The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Philadelphia this fall, a new oasis awaits: Welcome to Calder Gardens, named for the famed sculptor Alexander Calder. "I'm ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...