Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing at MOMA
A Souvenir Ash Tray from Washington DC is Part of Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum (All Photos By Gail) Claes Oldenburg, the legendary pop sculptor, has long been a collector of objects and images. His...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg Tartines
Claes Oldenburg, Tartines, 1964,Plaster painted with Tempera, on Porcelain Plates, Glass and Metal Case (Photos By Gail) If there is one artist whose work consistently brings a smile to my face, it is...
View ArticlePop Sculpture / Pop Culture at Leila Heller Gallery, Ends November 15th!
Art By Robert Indiana (All Photos By Gail) Leila Heller’s multi-floor midtown gallery is wrapping up its Pop Sculpture / Pop Culture exhibit on Saturday, but we had one last chance to check it out...
View ArticleBeau’s Mechanical Shark Week at Amy LI Projects
Weeping Shark (All Photos By Gail) Do you like sharks? I sure do. Amy Li Projects is currently hosting a solo exhibition with a fun shark theme: Mechanical Shark Week, featuring all new paintings by...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Giant BLT
Photos By Gail The triangular mass of Claes Oldenburg’s Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich”) 1963, is actually constructed from many smaller sculptural components including wood slabs,...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg,Pastry Case I
All Photos by Gail “I work with very simple things that I come across walking to work,” Claes Oldenburg explained in 1964, “such as a certain kind of pastry… or certain kinds of displays or...
View ArticleVideo Clip of The Week: Roses, “Nude Beach”
A primary reason that I chose “Nude Beach,” by California-based pop trio Roses, for this week’s Video Clip, is specifically because the video contains no nudity! Yeah, they didn’t take the easy way...
View ArticleClaes Oldenburg’s Monumental Paint Brush Sculpture in Downtown Philadelphia!
All Photos By Gail Philadelphia has no shortage of impressive public artworks and engaging street art scattered all over the city, and it’s fun to spend a day just wandering the different...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Soft Calendar for The Month of...
Photo By Gail Claes Oldenburg has consistently embraced contradiction to transform and animate everyday objects. In his art, hard becomes soft, miniscule becomes monumental and, as in Soft Calendar...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Profile Airflow
Photos By Gail When Claes Oldenburg was a child, he played with a toy version of the 1937 Chrysler Airflow, the first car designed according to aerodynamic principles. Profile Airflow (1969) was...
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