{"id":524,"date":"2006-03-24T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2006-03-24T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:06:00","slug":"while-at-the-nga-calder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"While at the NGA &#8211; Calder(!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/caldermiro-766326.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/caldermiro-761773.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was at the Dada show last weekend, I went downstairs to see the paintings (specifically the Anselm Kiefer, and the Johns&#8217; and I completely forgot about the room of Calder maquettes in the basement. I forgot how playful and engaging they really are in the smaller state &#8211; in particular &#8211; how much more I like them than the larger versions that seem to come with every public building in the world. So I spent a nice 25 minutes or so &#8211; looking at the work watching the shadows on the wall and just simply enjoyed them as the objects they are. It was really just a pleasant modernist thing to do, enjoying simple shapes and color.<\/p>\n<p>So as I was leaving I was trying to figure out if I really wanted the Dada catalog (full disclosure: I have a bunch of Dada books already). Anyway, I spotted the recent catalog for Miro\/Calder and started flipping through it and brought it home. Even though I will espouse the virtues of Dada all day long &#8211; sometimes you just want a little bit of light and joy &#8211; this exhibit and book really did the trick for me.<\/p>\n<p>See the Calders at the National Gallery East Wing.<br \/>Buy the Calder Miro book just about anywhere (you could try this new place called Amazon.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the Dada show last weekend, I went downstairs to see the paintings (specifically the Anselm Kiefer, and the Johns&#8217; and I completely forgot about the room of Calder maquettes in the basement. I forgot how playful and engaging they really are in the smaller state &#8211; in particular &#8211; how much more I like them than the larger versions that seem to come with every public building in the world. So I spent a nice 25 minutes or so &#8211; looking at the work watching the shadows on the wall and just simply enjoyed them as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=524\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">While at the NGA &#8211; Calder(!)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}