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

Experiencing Calder’s mobiles firsthand is the only way to fully comprehend their multisensory brilliance, but this footage of Black Mobile with Hole in motion is an apt substitute. Unlike a photograph, the clip reveals how the sculpture carves new forms by way of its movements. As Sartre wrote in 1946, “These hesitations and resumptions, gropings and fumblings, sudden decisions, and, most especially, marvellous swan-like nobility make Calder’s mobiles strange creatures, mid-way between matter a

American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated for revolutionizing sculpture with his renowned mobiles and stabiles, which range from the miniature to the monumental. "Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection" traces Calder's career over 45 works, highlighting his most important themes, styles, and materials from the 1920s through the 1970s while celebrating the transformative gift to SAM from patrons Jon and Kim Shirley. Experience the unique vision of a modern artist who le

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’