The Easel

28th April 2026

A Landmark Calder Exhibition with Over 300 of His Revolutionary Works Goes on View in Paris

Caroline Roux | Galerie | 17th April 2026

A huge Calder retrospective in Paris marks the 100th anniversary of his arrival there. Mobile sculptures are represented in such numbers as to remind viewers they were a “graceful leap in sculptural syntax”. Sculpture, once characterised by “volume and mass”, could also be dainty and not in a fixed position. Movement introduced time in a work, allowing Calder’s mobiles to” become a fluid part of their own environment.”

Brassaï – the secret signs of Paris

Anna Tellgren | Moderna Museet | 19th April 2026

Brassaï got serious about photography around 1930 and just three years later published Paris by night. It established those quintessential Parisien motifs – lamplit cobblestone streets, alleyways, the metro. His even more famous Secret Paris of the 30’s, his “photographic zenith”, appeared in 1976 and remains a key example of “humanist photography”. What gives these images their ageless magic? Says Brassaï’s nephew, they “do not seek to document an environment, but to extract a latent truth from it”. Images are here.

7th April 2026

How a humble print store in Cannes helped write modern art history

Natja Igney | Rivierabuzz | 18th March 2026

Printmakers doesn’t get many accolades. Galerie Maeght is an exception, having for decades produced lithographs and books by a who’s who of 20th century art. From the gallery’s origins in 1946, printmaking was a primary focus, a “laboratory” that produced ideas. Giacometti, for example, saw prints not as illustrations of his sculptures but as “siblings”. Further, such prints are “extraordinarily refined” and a way of making art – “collaborative, experimental, craft-rooted, unhurried – that has largely disappeared”.

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