ArtGrams: Alexander Calder

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Via Instagrammer @kairilook: “Beyond the circus”

Installed in a staircase at the Phillips are three works by Alexander Calder from the museum’s collection: Red Polygons (c. 1950), Hollow Egg (1939), and Only, Only Bird (1951). In this month’s ArtGrams, we’re featuring your creative shots of all three.

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Via Instagrammer @badagarla: “‘Hollow Egg’ by Alexander Calder”

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Instagrammer @janouka caught Calder’s Only, Only Bird in profile

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Instagrammer @vajiajia: “Dance, #Calder, dance!”

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Instagrammer @leonieboothclibborn captured multiple shadows of Calder’s Hollow Egg

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Instagrammer @dave.wolanski: “#Chicken #butt, that’s what!”

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When Instagrammer @brennan_bok strips this image of color, it’s hard to tell what is mobile and what is shadow.

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Via Instagrammer @cra66x

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Instagrammer @burtatochanga snaps Calder’s Only, Only Bird from above

ArtGrams: Allusion of Gravity

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Instagrammer @thepaulrudolph captioned this close-up of Alyson Shotz’s Allusion of Gravity with a Herman Melville quote: “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

Alyson Shotz’s Allusion of Gravity, on view in Intersections@5, has been captivating audiences and taking over our Instagram feed. For this month’s ArtGrams, we’re highlighting a few of the most creative shots of this mesmerizing piece.

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Photo by Instagrammer @a_colbs

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Instagrammer @wolfofkstreet snapped this photo during a Phillips after 5.

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Photo: Instagrammer @abby8ken

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Instagrammer @uglyguckling_: “ALL the feels today.”