Claes Oldenburg

Manhattan Mouse Museum (2011)

Manhattan Mouse Museum takes a glimpse into the world of American Pop Art icon Claes Oldenburg as he tends to an assembly of small curios, objects, and artworks. ...

Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006)

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

Ein Schlips steht Kopf (1995)

The Shock of the New (1980)

A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes. ...

Roy Lichtenstein (1975)

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada, and Purism in referring to signs and objects of contemporary society; Lichtenstein argues for distinctions be ...

Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years (1975)

Gathering inspiration from the world around him, Claes Oldenburg has dedicated his career to giving objects life. What many would see only as their mundane, everyday tools Oldenburg sees as an opportunity for art. His famed large scale sculptures stand wit ...

Hannah's Haircut (1975)

Hannah Wilke, upon Tschinkel's suggestion, cuts fellow artist, Claes Oldenburg's hair, which is taped for Tschinkel's Manhattan Cable TV show, Inner-Tube Video. This memorable piece reflects a caring relationship. ...

The Great Ice-Cream Robbery (1971)

Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his methods and his relationship with his partner Hannah Wilke. ...

Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag (1970)

This short film sees the thoughts and process of Claes Oldenburg come to life as he produced the soft kinetic sculptures from his ice bag series at Gemini GEL print studios. ...

Heads (1969)

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

Poem Posters (1967)

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others. ...

Art of the Sixties (1967)

This film documents the major directions in modern American art during the first seven years of the 1960s. The keynote is that the artist has expanded his realm from the two-dimentional picture frame, climaxed by the artists of the 40s and early 50s, merge ...

Grimace (1967)

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera. ...

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964)

Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica ...

Nekropolis I (1963)

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

Scarface and Aphrodite (1963)

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

Voyages II (1963)

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

Fotodeath (1961)

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

All Kinds of Love (2023)

Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg. ...

The Great Ice-Cream Robbery (1971)

Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his methods and his relationship with his partner Hannah Wilke. ...

Scarface and Aphrodite (1963)

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