Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish American sculptor Claes Oldenburg works in his studio in 1969. His art has a strong presence in Los Angeles, thanks in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of an umbrella in Des ...
One reason is scarcity. Large-scale permanent installations and commissions don’t turn up at auction, and even smaller sculptures, like his French Horns, Unwound and Entwined (2005), are rarely sent ...
Stuart Wrede shares an encounter with Claes Oldenburg, the famed Pop sculptor who died in July at 93
“Strangely enough I think that [Oldenburg’s monuments] would indeed be subversive. If you could even imagine a situation in which this could be done you would have the revolution. If you could really ...
It was a well-worn condition of 20th-century art: the creativity of women eclipsed by the fame of their husbands. But in New York, an exhibition at Pace Gallery is seeking to remedy one of these ...
“I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all,” wrote Claes Oldenburg in 1961, six decades before his death on Monday. “I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and ...
Perhaps suspecting that meeting would be our last, Claes took me on a tour of the building’s four floors. The old elevator creaked and scraped along the walls, and he displayed a childlike glee when ...
Claes Oldenburg's Batcolumn stands near the corner of Madison and Jefferson. Credit: Kirk Williamson At the corner of Madison and Jefferson in Chicago stands a 100-foot-high baseball bat, constructed ...
This spring, a massive trowel will touch down in the middle of the Channel Gardens inside Rockefeller Center. The cerulean blue plantoir is the work of Claes Oldenburg and his late wife, Coosje van ...
Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93. Oldenburg died Monday ...
It was a well-worn condition of 20th-century art: the creativity of women eclipsed by the fame of their husbands. But in New York, an exhibition at Pace Gallery is seeking to remedy one of these ...
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