Alone in a tower filled with the world’s largest display of sculptures by Alexander Calder. ✨ In this room filled with moving sculptures by Calder, giant mobiles are suspended in the sky. They turn and dance as you cohabit their space. One of the most extraordinary things about these deceptively gravity-defying objects is that they are supported by a force the size of your thumbnail: a tiny hook. In the mid-1930s, in addition to developing his classic mobiles, Calder began to explore the concept

The Calder Sidewalk The Legendary Sculptor’s Immobile Creation in Rustic Terrazzo Alexander Calder is best known for his abstract mobiles. There are also his stabiles (as his nonmoving sculptures came to be known). Then there’s his sidewalk. The 75-foot piece of permanent sidewalk art is always on view, where it was first installed in 1970, stretched out in front of three avant-garde art galleries on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The sidewalk, with its abstract design, was created late in Calder’

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Alone in a tower filled with the world’s largest display of sculptures by Alexander Calder... In this room filled with moving sculptures by Calder, giant mobiles are suspended in the sky. In the mid-1930s, in addition to developing his classic mobiles, Calder began to explore the concept of creating three-dimensional paintings in motion. The movement of these sculptures results in flashes of forms and colors, a complex choreography of elements that blurs the line between circumstance and permane