Alexander Calder (1898-1976) 及他的"珠寶"設計 (部分)
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This week we will be looking at Calder’s work on theatrical productions, a pivotal though lesser-known aspect of his oeuvre. Calder’s first opportunity to create mobile set design came in the mid-1930s when he collaborated with choreographer Martha Graham on Panorama, premiering in the Vermont State Armory in August 1935, followed by Horizons, at the Guild Theatre in New York City in February 1936: “[The mobiles] are employed in Horizons as visual preludes to the dances in this suite. The dances do not interpret the ‘mobiles’ nor do the ‘mobiles’ interpret the dances. They are employed to enlarge the sense of horizon.” Unfortunately, no documentation of either performance remains, making this 1950 photograph of Graham wearing Calder’s jewelry in a performance of Judith particularly notable. Check back throughout the week to learn about three important productions from Calder’s career: Nucléa (1952), The Glory Folk (1958), and Work in Progress (1968).
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[Image: Martha Graham performing Judith at Columbia Auditorium with the Louisville Orchestra, Kentucky, 4–5 January 1950. Photograph by Lin Caulfield. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
The Calder Tower
There’s nothing like experiencing this breathtaking room for the first time.
The National Gallery’s Tower 2 galleries boast the world’s largest permanent display of works by Alexander Calder. With more than 40 sculptures and paintings, spanning the late 1920s through 1976, gently spinning mobiles of all shapes and sizes delicately cascade from the ceiling, while “Tower with Pinwheel” climbs the wall and works like “The Big Ear” (on the left side of the room) stand resolute.
Stop by the museum to see these works in person before our East Building temporarily closes for construction (starting February 28) 
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7月29日上午5:36 ·
Marcel Duchamp was born on this day in 1887. During the mid-1940s, Calder produced a series of small-scale works, many from scraps trimmed during the making of other objects. When Duchamp saw them in Calder’s studio in 1945, he audaciously proposed, “Let’s mail these little objects to [Louis] Carré, in Paris, and have a show.” By taking advantage of the newly available international airmail system, Duchamp’s action predated “mail art” by nearly two decades. Not only that, Germany had only just surrendered to the allied troops that May. Undaunted, Carré responded to Duchamp’s proposal with a radiogram: “Interested show Calder miniatures would also gladly exhibit mobile sculptures available all sizes and colours.” Several of Calder’s smallest works will be on view in Alexander Calder: Minimal/Maximal, opening at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, on 22 August.
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[Image: Grand Piano, Red, 1946. © 2021 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
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