Tag: Alexander Calder

  • Paule Vézelay: Living Lines

    This jewel-like exhibition showcases the work of the pioneering Bristol-born artist, who moved to Paris, changed her name, mixed with the likes of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Calder, and became a key figure in abstract art

  • Alex Da Corte: As Long as the Sun Lasts

    This brightly coloured stainless steel, aluminium and fibreglass installation, depicting Sesame Street’s Big Bird swinging on a crescent moon, is just what is needed after a year of despair

  • Vision & Reality: 100 Years of Contemporary Art in Wakefield

    As the gallery celebrates its 10th birthday, it is apposite that it is marking its place in the century-long history of contemporary art in Wakefield. Although closed due to Covid, the online offering is comprehensive and fascinating

  • David Smith: Field Work

    This is a compelling show that reminds us that, though known best for his welded-steel sculptures, Smith identified as a painter

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist – interview: ‘This is an unusual Calder show because it is about ideas. We see him in a new light’

    A major Alexander Calder exhibition at Centro Botín in Santander reveals about 80 of the great American artist’s unrealised projects. Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the show, discusses these little-known collaborative works, which highlight Calder’s interest in the world around…

  • Tadao Ando – Emaki Drawings

    At this French sculpture park, whose landscape is dotted with his structures, the Japanese architect has designed, in his inimitable style, a new pavilion to exhibit drawings of 10 or so of his schemes

  • Suspension: A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918-2018

    From Duchamp’s Travelling Sculpture to a tiny work by Ruth Asawa, Suspension proposes a new category within the story of modern sculpture

  • Peter Halstead: ‘People should have their own personal adventure with sculpture’

    Cathy and Peter Halstead talk about Tippet Rise Art Center, the remarkable music venue and sculpture park they set up on a vast ranch in the wilds of Montana, and their desire to create a place with the potential for…

  • Masterpiece Fair 2017

    The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently…

  • Calder: Hypermobility 2017

    Drawing on its extensive collection, this small but exquisite show floated by the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Alexander Calder’s balancing act as a modernist revolution whose visual vocabulary gave art another dimension