He's the father of the mobile and one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors. His work — influenced by Mondrian and machines, embracing motion and modernity — can be recognized in an instant at ...

“I was framed,” Alexander Calder wrote in middle age as he looked back on his childhood and his failed attempt to escape sculpture, the family profession. This is how Jed Perl begins his biography of ...

In the past 100 years, no visual artist has contributed more to the sum total of human happiness than Alexander Calder. If you think about it, this generating of happiness, to the extent to which it ...