Calder Gardens is a Dazzling Showcase for the Sculptor’s Work.

A dispute over who owns the $8 million mobile is pitting a gallery against an art detective and the granddaughter of a collector. Senior Reporter A prominent New York art gallerist is battling with a ...

Plans for a new exhibition space and grounds to showcase the work of the late American artist Alexander Calder were unveiled this morning in Philadelphia. Calder Gardens, featuring an ...

Philadelphia will soon be home to a new space dedicated to one of the city’s beloved native sons, sculptor Alexander Calder. Described as a “sanctuary”—and explicitly not a museum—the facility, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. alexander calder, his grandson and his art Alexander Calder's grandson allegedly torpedoed the $8 million sale of one of the famed ...

Jimmy Durante, Alexander Calder, 1928. The Lipman Family Foundation, Portola Valley, Calif. Babe Ruth, Alexander Calder, c. 1936. Calder Foundation, New York Jean ...

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 ...

Born in Philadelphia in 1898, he made his name in Paris in 1926 with showings of Cirque Calder, a miniature circus made of ...

Alexander Calder checks some of his mobiles during a 1962 exhibition of his work at Tate London. Photo by Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images During his lifetime, Alexander Calder’s ...

Alexander S.C. Rower talks about his grandfather with the authority of a historian, the enthusiasm of a fan, and the charm of a silver-tongued dealer. “Literal fist fights,” is how he describes the ...

Standing in the presence of an Alexander Calder mobile can be spellbinding: the eye-catching geometric forms exquisitely balanced on wires, their captivating configurations continuously, subtly ...

PHILADELPHIA — It’s “not a museum,” and, according to its architects, it’s “not a building.” But this cool subterranean lair on the historic Benjamin Franklin Parkway now houses a shifting collection ...