Happy 89th birthday to Claes Oldenburg, who’s best known for his oversize renditions of everyday objects. "Giant Three-Way Plug (Cube Tap)," 1970, by Claes Oldenburg http://ow.ly/zVe530i2MkL | Philadelphia Museum of Art

Explore Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s “Inverted Collar and Tie” (1993) at #PaceLondon, part of our exhibition “Monument to the Unimportant.” Describing the work as a “soft skyscraper,” the artists transformed a conventional necktie into a sculpture that invites questions around material, form, and space. In 1994 the artists revisited the sculpture at a monumental scale, installing it at the entrance of an office building in Frankfurt, Germany, where it still stands today. As van Brugg

Admit it—you've always dreamed of squeezing a Claes Oldenburg soft sculpture. While we can't offer that, we can invite you to make your own soft, stuffed squeezable sculpture inspired by the Pop artist. In this week's Whitney Kids Art Challenge, Coordinator of Family Programs Laura Protzel shows us how to transform ordinary materials into your very own stuffed sculptures. Check out the full instructional video: https://bit.ly/3sxsZ59 | Whitney Museum of American Art

Get 'em while they're hot! 🥧 Real or sculpture?... Through "Glass Case with Pies," Claes Oldenburg transforms a beloved comfort food into a sculpture that celebrates a classic pastry staple you would find in your favorite deli or diner. “I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself. My food is a humanized form and scale.” — Claes Oldenburg Take

Sunday Morning Passage Swedish-American artist Claes Oldenburg, who created outsized sculptures of ordinary objects that stirred conversations about pop art in public spaces, has died at age 93. Charles Osgood spoke with Oldenburg and his wife artist Coosje Van Bruggen in 1994. https://cbsn.ws/3PF6sda | CBS Sunday Morning