Jeff's Met Picks: Alexander Calder

Mobile
Alexander Calder  (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1898–1976 New York City)

Alexander Calder invented the mobile in 1931, which was christened by his friend Marcel Duchamp. You may have had one dangling over your cradle. Calder's works are all over the world--some of the greatest public art we know. And, they change and move and dance and flow. Miracles of art on a string.