Claes Oldenburg

Omnibus

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. Th...

Heads

Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip...

Roy Lichtenstein

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-centu...

Manhattan Mouse Museum

Manhattan Mouse Museum takes a glimpse into the world of American Pop Art icon Claes Oldenburg as he tends to a...

The Great Ice-Cream Robbery

Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his methods and...

Art of the Sixties

This film documents the major directions in modern American art during the first seven years of the 1960s. The...

Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years

Gathering inspiration from the world around him, Claes Oldenburg has dedicated his career to giving objects lif...

Who Gets to Call It Art?

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

Poem Posters

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Olden...

Grimace

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery...

Voyages II

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.

Nekropolis I

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.

Fotodeath

An experimental film from Al Kouzel which edits unrelated scenes together with a camera tying them together.

Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag

This short film sees the thoughts and process of Claes Oldenburg come to life as he produced the soft kinetic s...

Pat's Birthday

Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and...

Hannah's Haircut

Hannah Wilke, upon Tschinkel's suggestion, cuts fellow artist, Claes Oldenburg's hair, which is taped for Tschi...

Scarface and Aphrodite

Based on a "Happening" by Claes Oldenburg, with a cast of twenty.

Ein Schlips steht Kopf

Nekropolis II

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.

Voyages I

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.