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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, presented Alexander Calder: Retrospective, the artist’s first solo show in Russia. The unprecedented exhibition featured nearly sixty works from the 1920s through the 1970s, lending insight into Calder’s unique genius that completely transformed the history of art. Among the works on view were Hercules and Lion (1928), a pinnacle of Calder’s work in wire; Red is Dominant (1947), with intentionally light-reflecting elements; and Black Mobile with Hole (1954), which was first presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Calder retrospective in …