The artists want to display their sculpture in public places where many different people can experience and appreciate art outside the box created by the four walls of a place like a museum. You don’t necessarily have to go to a museum to see and enjoy art.

 


Shuttlecock/Blueberry Pie, 1999
Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden 1929), Coosje van Bruggen (American, born the Netherlands 1942)
Cast aluminum painted with acrylic urethane
4 ft. x 2 ft. x 2 ft. (1.22 x 0.61 x 0.61 m)
Collection of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen,
courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery

 

 

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