Welcome to “On the Block”: ELLE Decor’s series where we spotlight one spectacular piece going up for auction. Get your paddles ready. The Pennsylvania-born artist originally gifted Painted Wood to ...

Before you knew what “art” was. Before you could even walk or talk, Alexander Calder was influencing your life. If your parents hung a mobile over your crib, he was. Calder can’t be credited for ...

Most people know Alexander Calder as the inventor of the mobile, a kinetic sculpture that hangs in space. But like his friend Georgia O'Keeffe, he is a familiar and beloved figure to such an extent ...

This famed mobile from artist Alexander Calder has hung in the Ruffin Building since 1975. The Bank of America is selling the “Eléments Démontables” mobile to the Calder Foundation to become “a ...

Though his name may not be immediately recognizable to many, sculptor Alexander Calder is best known for inventing the kinetic mobile. Born to parents who were both artists, Calder found himself ...

Most people think of mobiles as simple children’s toys designed to distract babies and help them fall asleep. Yet the origin of this soothing gewgaw actually marked an important turning point in the ...

Everything, even a majestic mobile by Alexander Calder, needs a tune-up and dusting once in a while. So the National Gallery of Art has removed its overarching signature Calder mobile from the central ...

Received several commissions for large-scale public sculpture, including a mobile for JFK Airport commissioned by Port Authority of New York and a stabile for UNESCO Paris headquarters Alexander ...