Alexander Calder, the artist who redefined sculpture

One of the things that I remember from an exhibition of his work I attended a while back was the still-working homemade electric toaster he had made for his home.

This stood out to me because I had recently been given a brand-new, professionally-constructed toaster that broke after maybe two months, and I was livid that the company which manufactured it couldn’t make a goddamn toaster that worked as well as the one some artist made in his spare time 70 years previously.

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