 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: The Barber's secret is out; Birmingham's Barber Institute is fast building up a nationally important collection of German art. Terry Grimley looks at a new exhibition of recent acquisitions.(Features)
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Byline: Terry Grimley
Slowly but surely, the Barber Institute of Fine Art is shedding its reputation as Birmingham's best-kept artistic secret.
Set up by private endowment, the university-based gallery houses the last great old master collection to be created in Britain. It may be relatively small, but for a collection which did not get going until shortly before the Second World War it is astonishingly comprehensive.
For many years an introspective culture prevented it being better known, but that was cast off with the arrival of its current ...
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Pop Art Sculptor Claes Oldenburg is Still Going Strong
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...exhibition of the work of sculptor Claes Oldenburg. This is Oldenburg's first...the whiskers at the other. CLAES OLDENBURG, Sculptor: I thought it was...polarities. SUSAN STAMBERG: Claes Oldenburg says drawing is the accidental...
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Claes Oldenburg.(Swedish sculptor)
Magazine article from: School Arts
; ...and sweet and stupid as life itself." -- Claes Oldenburg, 1961 Claes Oldenburg takes everyday objects as the subject of his...functional objects become nonfunctional. Background Claes Oldenburg was born in Sweden on January 28, 1929. His...
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Claes Oldenburg: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary.(20th century sculptor)(includes teaching bibliography and teaching activities)
Magazine article from: School Arts
; Throughout his career Claes Oldenburg has demonstrated the power of the imagination to transform the...metaphoric associations. About the Artist Born in Sweden in 1929, Claes Oldenburg was brought to America as an infant and raised in Chicago...
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Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...public monuments, a retrospective of the work of Claes Oldenburg highlights the artist's unpredictable tansformations of everyday objects and spaces. "Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology," an international traveling exhibition...
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Claes Oldenburg in retrospect: old softies.
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; The chock-full, chronologically arranged Claes Oldenburg show at the Guggenheim Museum is called an "anthology...retrospective" denatured the very idea of career.) Yet "Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology," curated by the Guggenheim's Germano...
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Spoonbridge and Cherry: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. (Looking & Learning).
Magazine article from: School Arts
; ...sculpture Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. It weighs...character. About the Artists Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm...Her first collaboration with Claes Oldenburg was in 1976, when his sculpture...
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Pop master Claes Oldenburg explored in two-part exhibit. (New York).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art Business News
; ...figures of the Pop Art movement, Claes Oldenburg. With 92 works on view, 88...Oldenburg drawings. The first, "Claes Oldenburg Drawings, 1959-1977," includes...more intimate. The second, "Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen Drawings...
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At the National Gallery, Oldenburg's freewheeling fun house. (Claes Oldendburg, National Gallery for the Arts, Washington, D.C.)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; For 35 years, Claes Oldenburg has found inspiration in the common-place, transforming everyday...there is anything I like to do, it is live in the present," Claes Oldenburg I said at the February opening of his new show at Washington...
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...The Whitney owns ninety-two of Claes Oldenburg's drawings (the largest such...periods and an answer is suggested by Oldenburg's definition of drawing as...rendering of an "idea," to use Oldenburg's language again. The loss of...
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. (Reviews: New York).
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...The Whitney owns ninety-two of Claes Oldenburg's drawings (the largest such...periods and an answer is suggested by Oldenburg's definition of drawing as...rendering of an "idea," to use Oldenburg's language again. The loss of...
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