Calder Foundation
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100
18 October 2025–9 March 2026Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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.

Related documents  13
Selected works  22
Selected publications  3

Taubman, Gogo. “Whitney Museum Celebrates 100 Years of Calder’s Circus with a Lively Tribute.” Galerie Magazine. 20 October 2025, Web.

Magazine

Chen, 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 Publication

Haddad, Natalie. “Calder’s Circus Is for Everyone.” Hyperallergic. 11 November 2025, Web.

Online Publication
Exhibitions / 2020–Today 7

The 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.