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ANDAFTER 8-MONTHS OFWORK, THEY'RERETURNING TO THEIRORIGINAL SPOT ALONGWITH THEIR SCULPTOR,CLAES OLDENBURG.THE "HAT IN THREESTAGES OF LANDING"WAS A BIG DEAL FORSALINAS WHEN IT WASUNVEILED 31 YEARS ...
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 ...
There’s a new homewares and grocery café courtesy of Flynn McGarry, owner of Lower East Side wine bar Gem Wine, and in midtown at Lever House, we’ll get some monumental Claes Oldenburg and ...
(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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...