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Hayden Galler, MIT: Claes Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg...
...most dramatic match of the day was Ingard's comeback against the captain of the Dartmouth team, Andy Oldenburg. After taking a 4-0 lead, Ingard dropped the first set in a tiebreaker...
That density is the oxygen of outdoor sculpture. It is why Claes Oldenburg's 18-ft.-high red steel Geometric Mouse, Scale X looks convincing on its beach, and why Alexander Liberman's Argo is the most successful combination of work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark...
Downstairs at the Fogg, on the first floor, the Print Room is displaying photographs by Boston artist Peter Jones and contemporary lithographs, silk-screens and offset prints--including Claes Oldenburg's satirical "Art and Technology...
Banality and Bliss. The truth of certain maxims once thought demode and elitist now reasserts itself: for instance, that a posture of cool boredom can in itself become boring; that a perfunctory infatuation with the signs and portents of "masscult" means nothing unless it is subjected-as by Oldenburg-to a profound change and rethinking; that banality is not always imaginative bliss. And if one happens to find sense in these propositions, it is hard to take all that seriously the marginal artists whose work Alloway has selected. Their work may have this or that to do with signs...