Tin Man
Known for his huge, geometrical mobiles — abstractions hanging and spinning in space — sculptor Alexander Calder started as a child by making toys. As an adult, among the radical artists of 1920’s...
View ArticleTrapeze, Elephants, Piazza
Kurt Andersen and author Cathy Day explore the spectacular, seedy, childlike joy of the circus. We’ll visit one of the last of the traveling “mud shows,” trucking elephants and acrobats to a different...
View Article2nd Stop
They leave every day from Grand Central Terminal -- train cars and subway cars. But yesterday, New Yorkers witnessed a rarer departure: art cars. Two weeks ago, an installation of four BMW art cars...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The otherworldly mobiles of Alexander Calder on 57th St., rare Islamic manuscripts at the Morgan, the art collection of photographer Alfred Stieglitz at the Met, Canadian cartoonists get their due on...
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Calder's Tiny Mobiles, Presented by a Flashy Architect
The architect behind grand projects— including a controversial transit hub 10 years in the making — is presenting a much smaller work uptown.Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who designed the...
View ArticleReview: Calder Without the Circus
Alexander Calder is, to my mind, America’s greatest-ever sculptor, but he suffers from overfamiliarity. Everyone knows his light-as-air mobile, and his red-painted behemoths in public plazas across the...
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