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Frank Gehry obituary

Canadian–American architect who explored crumpling and fish curves in such buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

The Guardian - UK

‘Art can take you to a particular place’

Trying to get a grip on contemporary creations at the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times

Letter: Claes Oldenburg obituary

Robert Vas Dias writes: When it came to my turn up at bat, I swung at the ball and failed to hit it, because the bat folded in half in mid-swing

The Guardian - UK

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Claes Oldenburg, who made art of massive size and style, spent his formative years in Chicago

CHICAGO — Not everyone liked the things that artist Claes Oldenburg made, which were gigantic sculptures of such commonplace items as a hamburger, a lipstick case, clothespin, ice cream cone, pretzel, ironing board, teddy bear, aspirin, and a very, very big bat in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

Two foiled smugglers, a VR old master, and Bruegel goes sketching – the week in art

Explore the excesses of Colombian carnaval, get real with Artemisia Gentileschi, see the unseen with Frank Auerbach and learn how a pipe not being a pipe still influences design today – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Appreciation: For sculptor Claes Oldenburg, art was the soul of Pop

LOS ANGELES — For more than a quarter-century, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture stood as a side-street landmark in West Hollywood. An enormous stainless-steel knife blade, 6 feet tall and 12 feet long, sliced down from the roof of a vernacular building on North Hilldale Avenue, jutting out toward the street.

Los Angeles Times

Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies, aged 93

Claes Oldenburg, one of the founders of the Pop Art movement, has died aged 93.

Evening Standard

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Claes Oldenburg obituary

Pop artist famed for his ‘soft sculptures’ and outsized monuments to everyday objects

The Guardian - UK

Claes Oldenburg, influential Pop artist who made massive sculptures of everyday objects, dies

As a Swedish immigrant child in Chicago, Claes Oldenburg dreamed up an imaginary world in intricately detailed drawings. As a founding father of Pop art, he focused on real objects of the most ordinary kind — vacuum cleaners, lipstick tubes, sun hats, typewriter erasers — and re-envisioned them as massive…

Los Angeles Times

Artist Claes Oldenburg, maker of huge urban sculptures including Chicago’s Batcolumn, dies at 93

The Swedish-born Oldenburg drew on the sculptor’s eternal interest in form, by reimagining ordinary items in fantastic contexts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Claes Oldenburg, creator of Pop Art on a giant scale, has died at age 93

The Swedish-born, New York City-based artist was famed for his gargantuan renditions of prosaic objects — a lipstick, a clothespin, a cherry perched on a spoon — installed as public art.

WEKU

Claes Oldenburg death: Swedish pop art pioneer dies aged 93

Artist had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago

The Independent UK

Pop art: 14 artists every designer should know

The most influential pop art artists challenged tradition by using imagery from popular culture.

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