Word: calders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for family and friends the sculptor could make practically anything out of anything. Through March...
...INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for family and friends, the sculptor could make practically anything out of anything. Through March...
Those who have visited Storm King know it as a testing spot for large-scale sculpture. Anything displayed there must face not only the permanent collection of pieces by David Smith, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero and other virtuosos of bigness, but the setting itself: a mountain with sweeping green ledges and infolding valleys whose scale can reduce lesser work to mere bibelots. Tucker's show, which runs through October, survives both comparisons...
...There is, of course, a lot more muck about Hart that could be raked. It's a dirty job, so somebody is likely to do it. Says National Enquirer President Iain Calder: "To go over the old ground would be tiresome. But we would take a story with a good angle in order to entice the reader. We are checking out phone tips actively...
...American sculptor who tried to make metaphors of technology, not even Calder, came up with an object as striking as Walter Teague's "Bluebird" radio, 1937-40, whose integration of a spartan constructivist design ethic into an American sense of technology as spectacle -- the big blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind...