Calder Gardens Cultural Destination Opens in Philadelphia via Calder Foundation and Barnes Foundation Partnership
Friday, March 27, 2026 · 1 min read
Calder Gardens, a 1.8-acre cultural site dedicated to the work of Alexander Calder, opened to the public on September 21, 2025, in Philadelphia. The project is a collaboration between the Calder Foundation and the Barnes Foundation, featuring a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron and landscapes by Piet Oudolf. The site presents Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, and paintings without didactic labels to encourage open-ended interpretation.
- Artists: Alexander Calder, Arto Lindsay, Piet Oudolf, Christina Quarles, Sonia Boyce, Zoe Leonard, Jeffrey Gibson, Thomas J Price, Zhang Enli, Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- People: Alexander S. C. Rower, Jacques Herzog, Juana Berrío, Eileen Harris Norton
- Galleries: Hauser & Wirth
- Museums: Barnes Foundation, Calder Foundation, ICA San Francisco, Tate
- Locations: Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Somerset, Los Angeles, New York, St. Moritz, Paris
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