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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) may not have been the most profound sculptor of the 20th century, but he was certainly the most enjoyable of modernists--the man who delighted a public several generations long by making sculpture move. This year marks the centenary of his birth. Accordingly, the National Gallery of Art in Washington has put on a Calder retrospective. Admirably curated by Marla Prather, the show (199 sculptures plus other works) will move to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in September...
...Philadelphia-born Calder was a fluent and effusively industrious artist who made thousands of works, and Prather has done a fine job of winnowing the wheat from the chaff, of which, truth to tell, there is a great deal. Calder never seems to have had the smallest inhibition about his chosen career. Both his parents were artists, and he made his own toys, "always a junkman of bits of wire and all the prettiest stuff in the garbage can." Growing up, he studied mechanical engineering, took painting classes at the Art Students League in New York City...
Getting the point across has never been more difficult, but that is what agencies are paid to do. "What it comes down to is positioning a product in the mind of consumers so that it's relevant to them," says Bobby Calder, a marketing professor at Northwestern. "When that's been done, it's mission accomplished." And until that's been done, expect more ad campaigns to change their tune as more clients send their agencies packing...
...that John Kennedy has his own magazine, George, he can turn the tables on the National Enquirer. He told Oprah, no stranger to tabs herself, that after he printed an interview with the Enquirer's founding editor Iain Calder, the scurrilous Scot called to complain that he'd been misquoted...
Just as Smith leaves behind the fantasy of primary colors which animates most of Calder's work, he also forsakes the Calderian motif of ingenious effortlessness. Produced in 1960 at the height of post-war economic prosperity, Smith's "Doorway" served notice on Americans that their consumer fantasies of self-fulfillment were only inspiring when left unsatisfied...