and closing Jan 20..@ the Brooklyn Museum ..
Soon opening at the Whitney
THE WHITNEY TO PRESENT SELECTION OF EARLY SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS BY OLDENBURG, FILMS OF HIS EARLY HAPPENINGS, AND A SERIES OF WORKS BY OLDENBURG AND VAN BRUGGEN Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room Opens May 7, 2009 Press Preview: Wednesday, May 6, 10am-noon NEW YORK, April 6, 2009 – This spring, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents a selection of early sculpture and drawings by Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), as well as films of the artist’s influential Happenings, together with The Music Room, a series of works that Oldenburg made with his wife and artistic collaborator Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009). The presentation opens on May 7, 2009, and runs through August in the second-floor Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021 whitney.org/press Tel. (212) 570-3633 Fax (212) 570-4169 pressoffice@whitney.org Press Release Contact: Whitney Museum of American Art S
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