Calder Foundation
What happens when you pair extraordinary works by two artists? A dialogue across time, for one. A spectacular exhibition, for another. Artist Tara Donovan shares how her sculpture responds to "Jacaranda" by Alexander Calder.
Learn more about Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan at the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle Art Museum): https://tinyurl.com/5xywfkef
In many of Calder’s mobiles—such as this work from 1948, which is currently on view at Calder Gardens—there are distinct sections of metal elements that behave independently. As air currents set them each in motion, these groupings may move in varying directions and at different speeds. John Yau writes, “Constantly shifting, Calder’s mobiles are physical examples of time’s unpredictability and endless change.” The sculpture’s choreography evolves from one moment to the next.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/ymtry3s5
[Video: Untitled (1948), Calder Gardens, 2025. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
06/18/2026
If you’re attending Art Basel this week, be sure to visit Calder’s seventeen-foot-high standing mobile The Tree, newly reinstalled in the sculpture garden at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen. Several of Calder’s monumental standing mobiles—such as The Spinner at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Carmen at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid—are composed of a base with a long, horizontal bar balanced on top and mobile elements descending from either end. Calder wrote of his outdoor standing mobiles in 1937, “All of them react to the wind, and are like a sailing vessel in that they react best to one kind of breeze.”
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/3cc298zv
[Image: The Tree (1966), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, 2026. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
06/16/2026
Calder’s monumental standing mobile Three Quintains has been reinstalled in front of the new David Geffen Galleries at the LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, part of Peter Zumthor's transformation of the museum’s campus. In 1964, Calder was commissioned to create a fountain for the William Pereira-designed museum. The final work—which was installed when the museum opened to the public on 31 March 1965—comprises three standing mobiles that function as the centerpiece of a fountain.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/3j63zx6t
[Image: Three Quintains (1964), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2026. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Fredrik Nilsen Studio]
06/15/2026
The vivid 1944 oil painting Fetishes is currently on view at Calder Gardens. Though he is most well-known as a sculptor, Calder was a prodigious painter. His first abstract works of art were a series of oil paintings from 1930, and he returned to this medium throughout his career, consistently transforming canvases with bold forms and dramatic juxtapositions that also appear in his sculpture.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/3xjypsxk
[Image: Fetishes (1944), Calder Gardens, 2026. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
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