Talk about the Weather: Art and Climate Change
Conveying the enormity of climate change through discrete objects is the central challenge of contemporary environmental art, if not the single greatest philosophical problem of our era.
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Fore! Calder’s Portrait of John D. Rockefeller Golfing Heads to Auction
The work is estimated to be sold for between $600,000 and $800,000.
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Circus Master
Alexander Calder was a rare breed, an American artist unscathed by alcoholism, poverty, depression, divorce, or bad reviews.
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This American Life: Cady Noland’s Art Feels More Prescient, Incisive, and Urgent Than Ever
Her work seems to have predicted our present moment.
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Vision Quest: The Berkshire Museum Will Stop at Nothing to Sell Its Art, Including a Masterpiece by Norman Rockwell
What does that mean for the future of American institutions?
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Implied Density and Mystic Frogs: Jim O’Rourke on Composing Sounds for Alexander Calder
The musician's instrumental piece "Calder Walk" was commissioned for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York.
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Alexander Calder
The appreciation of any aural nuances in Calder's constructions requires neutral acoustics at the very least.
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Small and Heavy Spheres Turn: Christian Marclay Plays a Calder Mobile at the Whitney Museum
A freeform performance accompanied the exhibition "Calder: Hypermobility."
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From the Archives: Jean-Paul Sartre on Alexander Calder, in 1947
Although many of Alexander Calder’s sculptures are meant to move, they’re sometimes presented as still objects, which does them something of a disservice. At the Whitney Museum in New York, an…
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