Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Larger Than Life


I'm not sure many of you have the June 2007 issue of Art & Antiques magazine sitting around but I was fortunate enough to have had several magazines donated to the project I'm working on and there it was...

on the cover...
a GIANT
ORANGE
BADMINTON
SHUTTLECOCK!

Art or craziness?

Have you ever seen the giant button in Philadelphia on Penn's campus? The same two artists. Meet artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Brugon and they are the team behind badminton and the button. By the way, you can see the shuttlecock at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri or online at http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/shuttlecocks.htm.

Check out the Bat Column (pictured) in Chicago.

They have some other amazing pieces as well. Be sure to visit their site at http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/lsp.htm. The pieces are larger than life!

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