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Decorative Exhibition
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High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100

At Whitney Museum of American Art

Meatpacking District

Calder's whimsical wire circus—complete with acrobats, animals, and performers—turns 100. See the playful 1926 masterwork that launched his career, alongside early abstractions and sketches that reveal how circus magic shaped kinetic art.

Kinetic sculpture
Centennial celebration
Early modernism
Archival materials

Whitney Museum of American Art

99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, USA

www.allarts.org

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