boingboing has links to “Carlos Vilardebo’s 1961 documentary of mobile-maker Alexander Calder’s intricate, ingenious wire puppet circus. The flying trapeezes actually fly, the lion poops, and the belly dancer gyrates lasciviously in the mind-blowing film that shows that, had Calder not become famous as an artist, he might have been equally famous as a puppeteer. In four parts.” On YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

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• Alexander Calder’s work
• Alexander Calder – wikipedia
• “The Engineer Behind Calder’s Art,” by Joan M. Marter, Mechanical Engineering Magazine, December 1998
• Alexander Calder at the Guggenheim
• Alexander Calder at MoMA
• Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art
• “Vertical Constellation with Bomb” – from the National Gallery of Art