We lost the talented, quirky actress Diane Keaton, who filmed three of her last movies in Connecticut, Oct. 11. Keaton ...

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Most of us know Alexander Calder, the famous sculptor. Both his stationary works, which he called “stabiles”, and his revolutionary “mobiles” define our cities in displays of public art. But how many ...

“Nobody could believe I got all these Calders for the auction,” says Tiffany Dubin—Sotheby’s artist jewelry specialist and head of sale—of the pieces she procured for Art as Jewelry as Art, the ...

An oasis. A cultural destination. An urban sanctuary. A moveable stage. An experiment. Calder Gardens, the brand new addition to Philadelphia’s Museum Row dedicated to groundbreaking American sculptor ...

Few artists can take an existing medium and completely reinvent it. Alexander Calder is one such artist, who took the idle grounds of sculpture and brought a kinetic dynamism that continues to spin ...

Visitors to the first major exhibition of Alexander Calder’s art in Tokyo in nearly 35 years will view Un effet du japonais, a nearly 7-foot sculpture made in 1941 of sheet metal, wire, rod, and paint ...

In 1930, Alexander Calder sent his mother a birthday present: a necklace, fashioned from brass wire, string and bits of broken pottery. His note said, "I have been making wire jewelry — and think I'll ...