Americans, who love motion, have taken sculpture off its pedestal and put it, swinging and swaying, into the air. Ever since Connecticut's brilliant Alexander Calder first exhibited mobiles* in 1932, the oddly shaped, delicately balanced contraptions of wood, metal or plastic have been suspended in the more modern-minded museums. Until recently, hardly anyone thought of these dangling doodles as suitable for the living room. But this year, with artists designing mobiles for commercial production, they seem to be growing into a national fad. A whole new minor industry is turning out...
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