Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, Calder. Rêver en équilibre celebrates the centenary of Calder’s arrival in France by bringing together nearly 300 works spanning the artist’s entire career. Set within Frank Gehry’s iconic architecture, this major retrospective covers half a century of creation, from the mid-1920s and the first staging of the artist’s Cirque Calder performances, which captivated the Parisian avant-garde, to the monumental sculptures that redefined public art in the 1960s and 1970s.

Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan pairs the legendary American modernist with one of the most exciting sculptors working today. A Calder Prize winner in 2005, Donovan chose Calder’s Jacaranda and Mountains (1:5 intermediate maquette) as touchpoints for the exhibition. Like the vast majority of Calder’s sculptures, both works are black. Donovan explains, “My primary (though not sole) focus on the color black references Calder’s use of black in many of his works as a neutralizing force that flattens sculptural shapes.”

Calder’s friend, the critic Giovanni Carandente, donated a large portion of his personal collection to establish a modern art gallery in Spoleto’s Palazzo Collicola in 2000. Included is a permanent installation of Calder’s work and a maquette for the city’s monumental stabile Teodelapio, which the artist executed in 1962.

One of the two tower galleries in the museum’s I.M. Pei-designed East Building boasts the world’s largest permanent display of works by Calder, including several long-term loans from the Calder Foundation.