Lever House is a temporary correction. By Max Lakin Since November, “Architect’s Handkerchief” (1999), Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s 12-foot-tall abstract hankie sprouting from ...

(72.4 x 52.7 cm.) Pencil signed and numbered Artist's Proof (AP XII), aside from the regular edition of 150 Reference Axsom 76; Number 21 in "Printed Stuff : Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes ...

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 ...

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 ...

But just imagine it would suddenly be there.” —Herbert Marcuse, commenting on Claes Oldenburg’s proposed monuments for New York City in conversation with Stuart Wrede, as published in ...

CHICAGO—Not everyone liked the things that artist Claes Oldenburg made, which were gigantic sculptures of such commonplace items as a hamburger, a lipstick case, clothespin, ice cream cone ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Claes Oldenburg will be remembered as "an extraordinary man" for his impact on the art world and beyond, says an art gallery curator and long-time collaborator. "Claes was an extraordinary man ...

When the artist Claes Oldenburg, who authored these words in 1961, died this week at ninety-three, one had a sense that it had been a long while since his vision, for good or ill, had engaged the ...

His "Colossal Monuments" included lipsticks as big as trees and huge fabric hamburgers: Claes Oldenburg redefined sculpture as pop art throughout a storied career. He has died at the age of 93.