He declared allegiance to art that “accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.” Image Claes Oldenburg holds one of his pieces ...

Although Oldenburg made New York his home for 70 years, no public sculpture by the artist is on permanent view. Lever House is a temporary correction. In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark ...

In November, the design world continues to ramp up to December and Design Miami with new shows, from Salon of Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory, to openings at Friedman Benda, Superhouse, and ...

The Store is Claes Oldenburg’s 1961 art installation. The artist filled The Store with plaster-covered muslin sculptures painted in strong colors. The surfaces were smoothed by the glossy paint ...