GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — First the first time in its 50-year history, La Grande Vitesse, the stabile most refer to simply as The Calder, is getting a full restoration. Work began on the two-month, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - It is hard to imagine Grand Rapids without the big, red Calder stabile downtown by City Hall. But those old enough to remember know "La Grande Vitesse” has only been there for 50 ...

GRAND RAPDS, MI -- Nearly every inch of Nancy Mulnix Tweddale’s kitchen table was covered as she showed off her collection of items depicting La Grande Vitesse and the bright orange-red color chosen ...

*I'm not nuts about the Calder stabiles, I prefer the mobiles, but that treatment is terrific. I even enjoy the ethereal art-speak, although Calder himself didn't do a whole lot of lofty oratory. The ...

Alexander Calder is synonymous with twentieth century abstract art. He invented the mobile form by suspending objects in space in the 1930's. Although Calder created not only mobiles, but paintings, ...