Curator-Led Tour of High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100
Fri, Feb 20, 2026
9–10:30 am
Alexander Calder, Calder's Circus (detail), 1926-31 (installation view, High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 18, 2025–March 9, 2026). Wire, wood, metal, cloth, yarn, paper, cardboard, leather, string, rubber tubing, corks, buttons, rhinestones, pipe cleaners, and bottle caps, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from a public fundraising campaign in May 1982. One half the funds were contributed by the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust. Additional major donations were given by The Lauder Foundation; the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.; the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.; an anonymous donor; The T. M. Evans Foundation, Inc.; MacAndrews & Forbes Group, Incorporated; the DeWitt Wallace Fund, Inc.; Martin and Agneta Gruss; Anne Phillips; Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller; the Simon Foundation, Inc.; Marylou Whitney; Bankers Trust Company; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Dayton; Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz; Irvin and Kenneth Feld; Flora Whitney Miller. More than 500 individuals from 26 states and abroad also contributed to the campaign 83.36.1-72. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Gus Powell
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Floor 8
Open to Circle, Fellow, Sponsor and Benefactor Members
Friday, February 20
9 am: Light Breakfast
9:30–10:30 am: Exhibition Tour
Circle, Fellow, Sponsor and Benefactor members are invited for a tour of High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100, led by Roxanne Smith, Jennifer Rubio Assistant Curator of the Collection.
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 marks the centennial anniversary of Calder’s Circus by bringing together the iconic work with other examples of Alexander Calder’s circus-themed wire sculptures and drawings, related archival material, and early examples of the artist’s abstract sculptures.
Complimentary refreshments will be served in the Lobby prior to the tour.
