Calder Gardens in Philadelphia offers visitors a different experience with every step, and in every season. Here's what to ...

Calder Gardens has arrived, and it’s safe to say that Philadelphia has never seen anything quite like it — not on the Parkway, not anywhere else. If the Barnes Foundation hides behind a slender grove ...

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.

An exciting new addition to Philadelphia's art scene opened in the fall of 2025. Around the corner from the Barnes Foundation and within view of the famous Philadelphia Museum of Art — a place you can ...

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 ...

When Mobilist Alexander Calder was only a tot 60 years ago, he would solemnly announce to those he had just met: “I am the third Alexander Calder living and the ninth dead.” To be the third living ...

Most people think of mobiles as simple children’s toys designed to distract babies and help them fall asleep. Yet the origin of this soothing gewgaw actually marked an important turning point in the ...

In 1930, Alexander Calder sent his mother a birthday present: a necklace, fashioned from brass wire, string and bits of broken pottery. His note said, "I have been making wire jewelry — and think I'll ...

HIS tousled white hair quivering rhythmically, his ruddy, jovial face radiating glee, Alexander Calder was beating a steady tempo on the African tom-tom. Swirling around him, clanging a Mexican ...

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. In 1930, Alexander Calder sent ...