Claes Oldenburg
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NEW YORK — The Jewish Museum presents New York: 1962-1964, an exhibition that explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, this immersive exhibition presents more than 150 […]
NEW YORK (AP) – 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.
PHILADELPHIA — Freeman’s Oct. 29 auction of Modern & Contemporary Art features important examples from a wide range of artistic movements including Minimalism, Pop Art, Color Field Painting, Cubism, Op Art and Abstract Expressionism. Notable lots include significant and fresh-to-market examples by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Zao Wou-Ki, Ellsworth Kelly, M.F. Husain, Jules Olitski, Henri Matisse, Patrick Heron, […]
WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden welcomed more than 14,000 visitors through the free special exhibition “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” during its first week on view (Feb. 23–March 1). This period also saw a record-setting 32,500 visitors to the museum and sculpture garden, its highest attendance for those dates in almost […]