Welcome to Alexander Calder's Circus 🎪🤡🦁 This beloved artwork features an elaborate troupe of over 70 ingeniously articulated animals, clowns, and acrobats, plus nearly 100 accessories such as nets, flags, carpets, and lamps. Beginning in 1927, the artist would choreograph his circus for audiences in Paris, New York, and elsewhere. His audience would sit on a low bed or crates, munching peanuts and using noisemakers while Calder choreographed, directed, and performed Calder's Circus, narratin
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Welcome to Alexander Calder's Circus 🎪🤡🦁 This beloved artwork features an elaborate troupe of over 70 ingeniously articulated animals, clowns, and acrobats, plus nearly 100 accessories such as nets, flags, carpets, and lamps. Beginning in 1927, the artist would choreograph his circus for audiences in Paris, New York, and elsewhere. His audience would sit on a low bed or crates, munching peanuts and using noisemakers while Calder choreographed, directed, and performed Calder's Circus, narratin
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Now open! High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 🎠🎪 One of Calder’s most iconic works—and one of the Whitney’s most beloved—is back. 🎥 Go behind the scenes as Calder’s troupe of acrobats, clowns, and animals take their places for the grand return of Cirque Calder. Featuring over one hundred objects, this once-in-a-generation exhibition traces his evolution into a pioneer of modern sculpture. Experience the Circus in person, now open through March 2026.
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Now open! High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 🎠🎪 One of Calder’s most iconic works—and one of the Whitney’s most beloved—is back. 🎥 Go behind the scenes as Calder’s troupe of acrobats, clowns, and animals take their places for the grand return of Cirque Calder. Featuring over one hundred objects, this once-in-a-generation exhibition traces his evolution into a pioneer of modern sculpture. Experience the Circus in person, now open through March 2026.
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alexander calder’s circus 🎪 100 year anniversary exhibit at the whitney museum is a must see imo 🤹🏻‍♀️ this joyful performance art was inspiration for his famous mobiles (chat am i saying this correctly) #alexandercalder #performanceart #circus #whitney #nyc
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Celebrate the centennial of Alexander Calder’s groundbreaking Calder’s Circus featuring an unforgettable cast of over 100 objects that explore themes of movement, balance, suspense, and ephemerality that would later define the artist’s signature mobiles. On view only through March 9. — All artworks by Alexander Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Carlos Vilardebó, Le Cirque Calder, 1961. Courtesy Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York
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Whitney Museum of American Art on Instagram: "Now open! High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 🎠🎪 The curtain rises again on one of Alexander Calder’s most iconic works—and one of the Whitney’s most beloved. Featuring over 100 handcrafted objects, this once-in-a-generation exhibition traces his evolution into a pioneer of modern sculpture. Go behind the scenes as Calder’s troupe of acrobats, clowns, and animals take their places for the grand return of Cirque Calder. Experience the spectacle in per
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Now open! High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 🎠🎪 The curtain rises again on one of Alexander Calder’s most iconic works—and one of the Whitney’s most beloved. Featuring over 100 handcrafted objects, this once-in-a-generation exhibition traces his evolution into a pioneer of modern sculpture. Go behind the scenes as Calder’s troupe of acrobats, clowns, and animals take their places for the grand return of Cirque Calder. Experience the spectacle in person—open through March 2026. | Whitney Museum
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Have a look at the Whitney Conservation team's wire model of Alexander Calder's circus acrobats. 🎪 In 2013, our conservators spoke to real acrobats about the movements Calder created in his Circus as part of their research. Watch the full video detailing the process of restoring one of the most beloved works in the Museum's collection: https://bit.ly/3OjQbLu | Whitney Museum of American Art
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