At age 16, J. Hoberman was old enough to crash the gates when Beatlemania overtook Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965—but, as ...

Pop Art, a vibrant and influential art movement, emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States, ...

Claes Oldenburg made an indelible mark on Philadelphia’s urban landscape, three times. His iconic Clothespin, a black, 45-foot tall stylized clothespin made of Cor-Ten steel, was installed in 1976 ...

Oldenburg, who died in July 2022 at age 93, was one of pop art’s most prominent exemplars. He was also a distinctly Chicago artist, a distinction that received only scant acknowledgement in ...

Artist Claes Oldenburg, right, prepares to change hats while sitting on stage beside former Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue during a rededication ceremony for Oldenburg's sculpture "Hat in Three ...

Claes Oldenburg defied the rules of Abstract Expressionism, making sculptures and sewn creations from materials found on the streets of New York. Eventually, he crafted ordinary objects on a grand ...

Stuart Wrede shares an encounter with Claes Oldenburg, the famed Pop sculptor who died in July at 93 By Stuart Wrede • September 14, 2022 • Art , National , Print—Obituary ...

American sculptor Claes Oldenburg, 93, died at his home and studio in New York on July 18. One of the major figures of Pop Art, he is best known for his monumental public sculptures of everyday ...

The late sculptor Claes Oldenburg created a monumental installation, "Stake Hitch," for the central hall in the Dallas Museum of Art for its 1984 opening. You probably haven't seen it because the ...

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg watches as his sculpture “Paint Torch” is installed by the George Young Company at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia on Aug. 20, 2011.

One of the most famous performance-installations by the Swedish-American Pop Art giant Claes Oldenburg, who died earlier this month, will be recreated at Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London this ...