
Curated by Jennie Goldstein and Roxanne Smith, High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 celebrated the centennial of Calder’s iconic Cirque Calder. The artist began creating this complex, multiact body of performance art—a distillation of the natural circus fashioned from a spectrum of found materials—while living in Paris in 1926. High Wire brought together over 100 objects from the installation, along with more than thirty related works—several on loan from the Calder Foundation—including sculptures, drawings, paintings, archival materials, and film.
Taubman, Gogo. “Whitney Museum Celebrates 100 Years of Calder’s Circus with a Lively Tribute.” Galerie Magazine. 20 October 2025, Web.
MagazineChen, Min. “The Fabulous Story Behind Calder’s Circus, the Tiny Big Top That Set His Art in Motion.” Artnet News. 5 November 2025, Web.
Online PublicationHaddad, Natalie. “Calder’s Circus Is for Everyone.” Hyperallergic. 11 November 2025, Web.
Online PublicationThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start. 14 March 2021–15 January 2022.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany. Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal. 22 August 2021–13 February 2022
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands. Calder Now. 21 November 2021–29 May 2022.
Pace Gallery, Los Angeles. Calder/Tuttle:Tentative. 21 January–25 February 2023.