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25 minutes agoThe Year in Art Films
Many older artists feel left behind and intimidated by younger, well-connected art-world circles but can advance careers with targeted guidance and effort.
Most famously, there are the Calders, grandfather, father, and son-all, confusingly, named Alexander-whose sculpted work has ornamented the city for more than a century. The elder Calder made the statue of William Penn that crowns City Hall, a monument that caps the city's skyline-with a long-enforced rule that no building could rise above Billy Penn's hat-but is distinguished, too, for radiating the benevolent dignity of a man of peace rather than the anxious arrogance of a warrior.