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Jun 09, 2005

Twirling and Spinning Again

After more than a year’s absence, Alexander Calder’s massive mobile “Untitled” (1976) returns to the atrium of the National Gallery of Art’s East Building. The sculpture was disassembled on April 19, 2004, in order to undergo conservation treatment to enable greater freedom of movement. As the Post reported yesterday: With a new paint job and “hardfacing” work (a surface treatment that will allow the pieces to move more freely on their connecting loops), the…

Oct 13, 2004

Arts Agenda

Kayti Didriksen’s notorious painting of President Bush, “Man of Leisure: King George” (which was originally part of the City Museum’s “Funky Furniture” exhibition until deemed unsuitable for public display) can now be seen at Modern ARF in Clarendon. — This evening, head to the next installment of Artful Evenings at the Phillips Collection. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, the curator of the newly opened exhibit “Calder Miró,” will lead a discussion of the visual dialogue between the…

 
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