“I get ideas for them everywhere, except when driving a car. I try and think of something slithering around and the next thing I know I’m in the ditch.” Thus last week greying, hulking Alexander ...

Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976 by Jed Perl Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976 (Knopf, 2020) is the second and final volume of Jed Perl’s exhaustively ...

PHILADELPHIA – Art and horticulture have been closely aligned on canvas and in sculpture from the Old Masters to the Modernists to the contemporary generation of artists. That relationship will find ...

Barrel shaped "Sandy" Calder with his white hair set off against a bright red flannel shirt and blue jeans, grunted directions in a good humored way, as a crew of students festooned the large gallery ...

In her memoir, Blood Memory: An Autobiography, Martha Graham, the pioneering modern-dance choreographer, recalled an incident from the early 1930s, sometime after she and a coterie of collaborators ...

The Swann Memorial Fountain was named for Dr. Wilson Cary Swann, the founder and president of the Philadelphia Fountain Society, which provided fresh drinking water throughout the city. The three ...

In Manhattan’s Pierre Matisse Gallery, critics and gallery-goers gravely inspected a number of gangling contraptions. Made up of string, wire, metal rods, colored wooden balls, sheet metal, the ...

Alexander Calder is perhaps the least controversial great international artist of our time. Everyone knows and loves his delicately balanced mobiles — a field of sculpture he invented entirely on his ...

The Rodin Museum will soon have a neighbor. Three generations of the Calder family of sculptors -- who successively created the statue of William Penn atop City Hall, the fountains of Logan Square and ...