American artist Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) created works of art which were a wonderful blend of reality and fantasy. Oldenburg's artistic success was due in part to his irreverent humor and incisive social commentary. He took objects from the everyday...

"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." -- Claes Oldenburg,...

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The Whitney owns ninety-two of Claes Oldenburg's drawings (the largest such collection anywhere) and all were on exhibition this summer at the museum, displayed in two groups-those from 1959 to 1977, and those the artist made with...

Few professionals in the art world, whether they're artists, critics, historians or museum curators, can be said to command as comprehensive an understanding of the art of sculpture as William Tucker, the British-born artist who's been working in this country since 1978 and is now...

Roy Lichtenstein believed his creative vision heralded a new approach to art. Others, however, were pretty sure he was crazy. Critics ridiculed him. Art aficionados sniffed at his work.And in 1964, Life magazine bluntly asked in a headline, "Is He the Worst Artist in America?"...