Alexander Calder's Circus is setting up at the Whitney once again (it's part of their permanent collection, and was last up in 2009), and will be reinstalled at the museum on December 9th.

Alexander Calder spent a lot of time contemplating the circus. In 1925, the American artist spent two weeks sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey as an illustrator for the National ...

Using dozens of miniatures he made, the sculptor Alexander Calder performed his “Circus” around Paris in the early 20th century, with artists like Joan Miró and Marcel Duchamp in the audience.

A Calder show isn't complete without the circus, right? An early assignment, back in the mid-1920s, to illustrate the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and New York area zoos for a tabloid ...

In recognition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's new Alexander Calder exhibit, "The Paris Years, 1926 - 1933," we've pulled a clip from one of the artist's later-in-life "Cirque Calder ...

Calder's most notable piece is the "Calder Circus," which are intricate pieces of miniatures that interact together, created from household materials like wires, wood and fabric.

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Calder left New York for Paris in 1926, but returned during the fall of 1927 with a suitcase full of eight-inch tall, wire-sculpted circus characters that he made overseas (now “Calder’s ...

This work was created for Artists for Amnesty, a series of art posters done by 15 world renowned artists to focus on Amnesty International's Prisoners of Conscience Year, 1975. It was exhibited ...