Monday, May 18, 2009

Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe / NYT

By Carol Kino for the New York Times


Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney Museum, where two exhibitions of his work are on view.
Photograph by Evan Sung/ NYT

IN 1961, early in his career, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto: “I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. I am for an artist who vanishes.”

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Art Review | Claes Oldenburg
A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag
By Kareen Rosenberg for the New York Times


Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two, 1995
Claes Oldenburg


Giant Fagends, 1967
Claes Oldenburg


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