The best Calder publications, from a comprehensive two-volume biography to a children’s book about his moveable ...

For more than quarter century, Greta Greenberger ended her tours of Philadelphia City Hall at the tower, just below the bronze buckled shoes of William Penn (1892), the shady colossus that Alexander ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! If you want to understand the life and work of Alexander Calder, the abstract ...

Lovers of the arts, architecture and landscape will soon have a new cultural destination along the Ben Franklin Parkway to add to their agendas the next time they are in Center City, Philadelphia.

What can a museum experience be now? Meet Calder Gardens. A leading architect, garden designer and philanthropist build a thrillingly eccentric complex for the inventor of the mobile. The metal facade ...

At the summit of Calder Gardens, a wondrous black stabile stands its ground near the building’s facade. Two of its legs, if they are legs, balance like a ballerina en pointe. Wait, isn’t one an ...

PHILADELPHIA — It’s “not a museum,” and, according to its architects, it’s “not a building.” But this cool subterranean lair on the historic Benjamin Franklin Parkway now houses a shifting collection ...

You can be easily forgiven if you haven't heard about Calder Gardens. While the small, immersive museum occupies a prominent place in Philadelphia's museum district, near such iconic destinations as ...