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CityCenter also will feature a with works by acclaimed artists including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, among others. CityCenter is a design collaboration between MGM MIRAGE and eight internationally acclaimed including Pelli Clarke Pelli, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Helmut Jahn, RV Architecture LLC led by Rafael Vinoly, Foster + Partners(1), Studio Daniel Libeskind(1), Rockwell Group and Gensler. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
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CityCenter also will feature a $40 million public fine art program with works by acclaimed artists including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, among others. CityCenter is a design collaboration between MGM MIRAGE and eight internationally acclaimed architectural firms including Pelli Clarke Pelli, Kohn Pederson Fox, Helmut Jahn, RV Architecture LLC led by Rafael Vinoly, Foster + Partners(1), Studio Daniel Libeskind(1), Rockwell Group and Gensler. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The High Museum, with a French accent Mar 23, 2008
JUDY WELLS/The Times-UnionBaltzac/Petanque by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, known to Atlantans as "Peaches and Pears on Peachtree Street," is a natural focal point in the High Museum's large lobby. JUDY WELLS/The Times-UnionBaltzac/Petanque by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, known to Atlantans as "Peaches and Pears on Peachtree Street," is a natural focal point in the High Museum's large lobby ... For once, eyes are turned inward, watching the rhythmic struggle instead of... (Florida Times-Union)
* Oasis of art planned in the land of glitter Mar 15, 2008
Another big acquisition is Typewriter Eraser Scale X, one of three Pop sculptures of that title by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. MGM Mirage officials declined to name the price tag for that work or identify the seller of either piece. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
On the Vegas Strip, wagering on the public arts Mar 15, 2008
MGM Mirage has also purchased older contemporary pieces, like a marble version of Moore's sculpture "Reclining Connected Forms" (1969-74), which Murren said cost at least $7 million, and "Typewriter Eraser Scale X," one of three Pop sculptures of that title by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. MGM Mirage officials declined to name the price tag for that work or identify the seller of either piece. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Horns provide plenty of entertainment at art fair Oct 7, 2007
Two huge, bright yellow musical instruments, entitled French Horns: Unwound and Entwined, 2005, are among the most unusual exhibits because they mark a collaboration between leading artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The two have unravelled, and then twisted together, the oversize stainless instruments which yesterday appeared in their temporary home, the park's English Gardens. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Barcelona: A charming jumble of art and artists Sep 4, 2007
also featured a show of the bold, bent forms created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, which seemed an ideal pairing with Mir. s work. (International Herald Tribune)
A brighter idea for museum design May 28, 2007
The Bloch Building represents the biggest part of a $196 million civic undertaking that has renovated the 1933 museum building and expanded the sculpture park, a magnificent public space to the museum's south that is dotted with sensuous bronzes by Henry Moore and playful, oversize shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. For the 59-year-old Holl, who has shown a willingness to break the rules in such acclaimed recent projects as the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art... (Chicago Tribune)
Corcoran: The next chapter (Deborah K. Dietsch) Mar 17, 2007
Under discussion is a retrospective of sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen originally shown in Turin, Italy, that also may be brought to the museum. In dreaming up new shows, Corcoran curators will draw from the museum's great collection of 19th-century American paintings. (Washington Times)
12 new things to see this year Feb 14, 2007
Elaine Thompson / AP fileThe 19-foot tall "Typewriter Eraser, Scale X," by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen stands in view of traffic passing on nearby Elliott Avenue at the Seattle Art Museum's new sculpture park. . (MSNBC -- Travel)
New Seattle sculpture park 'impressive' Jan 25, 2007
People driving by can look out their window and see the 19-foot tall "Typewriter Eraser, Scale X," by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Drivers might wonder, what next a giant bottle of Wite-Out. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Searching for common ground in the cityscape that surrounds us Jan 17, 2007
Even Cupid's Span in Rincon Park -- that 60-foot-tall bow-and-arrow by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen -- sticks in many local craws. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, it's true; I enjoy Cupid's Span as surely as I scratch my head at the scrap-metal woman and child now loitering near Pier 14 -- a Burning Man relic that's a temporary installation (thank goodness). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Seattle's new art park Jan 15, 2007
It is easy for anyone to sneak a peek through the fences that surround the park, and it is impossible to miss some of the sculptures Calder's 39-foot-high, bright-red steel "Eagle," or the 5-ton, 19-foot-high "Typewriter Eraser, Scale X," by Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, which indeed evokes a classic circular reddish-orange eraser with the blue brush tail. "Seattle Cloud Cover," by Fernandez, is a 200-foot-long, 60-panel display of laminated-glass cloud patterns. (Los Angeles Times)
