Welcome to “On the Block”: ELLE Decor’s series where we spotlight one spectacular piece going up for auction. Get your paddles ready. The Pennsylvania-born artist originally gifted Painted Wood to ...

Calder was in his twenties when he first moved to France. Now a series of new shows explores the American artist’s Gallic ...

Alexander Calder%27s prominent %22Black Crescent%22 mobile has been removed from the Delaware Art Museum%27s East Court and its collections database The piece was purchased by the museum in 1961 ...

Alexander Calder, “Mountains and Clouds” (designed 1976, completed 1986) (photo by Jim Fruchterman/Flickr) It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but members of the US Senate are pondering the ...

Thirty eager adults wind their way to the top floor of the National Gallery of Art's recently renovated East Building. Their destination is a stunning skylit tower gallery of Alexander Calder works ...

Christie’s has secured the consignment of a mobile by Alexander Calder made of wood from early in the artist’s career. Specialists expect the work, the leading lot of the Christie’s 20th Century ...

Calder’s mobile sculptures were designed to move, and that original intent is at the core of the Whitney Museum’s current exhibition of his sculptures, Hypermobility. Each piece has a prescribed way ...

“Why must art be static?” Alexander Calder once asked, with a tinge of defiance. “The next step in sculpture is motion.” This question, or near challenge, impelled the artist to investigate mass and ...