She’s 50 years old, stands over 12 feet tall, weighs nearly 2,500 pounds and has delighted and inspired imaginations all over the world. In 1969, when Alexander Calder created his renowned Waney Janey, he was doing it for placement in a shopping mall on Long Island. Little did he know that, five decades later, it would have travelled from Gramercy Park in Manhattan to the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherland, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to Jardin Des Tuileries, on the grounds of the Louvre in Paris France, where it is currently on display for the FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair. Yet it has! Alexander Calder, one of history’s greatest sculptors, was a magician in the realm of forms. He transmuted the most ordinary materials into marvelous ornaments, jewels, ... Read more