Jean Arp was born on this day in 1886. The German-French artist coined the term “stabile” for Calder’s static works in 1932 as a sarcastic response to Duchamp’s “mobile,” dubbed the previous year for the American's kinetic objects. Henceforth, Calder “seized the term,” as he put it in his autobiography, “applying it first of all to the things previously shown at Percier’s and later to the large steel objects.” One of the stabiles shown at Calder’s 1931 exhibition Alexandre Calder: Volumes–Vecteurs–Densités / Dessins–Portraits at Galerie Percier, Paris, Sphérique I is now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (@whitneymuseum). Image: Sphérique I (1931). © 2022 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York #Calder #AlexanderCalder #CalderFoundation #JeanArp