Legendary Pop Artist Claes Oldenburg Has Died at Age 93

Legendary Pop artist Claes Oldenburg has passed away at the age of 93. The news came via Adriana Elgarresta, a spokeswoman of Pace Gallery in New York, which represented the artist alongside Paula Cooper Gallery for much of his career.For over 50 years, Oldenburg placed special emphasis on ordinary objects by monumentalizing everything from hamburgers, kitchenware and half-eaten fruit, to saws, pickaxes and shovels as towering sculptures. "I felt like the Ab Ex painters weren't saying very much,...