Claes, Coosje and Me

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Binoculars Building: Sculpture 6 (Venice Beach)

    CLAES, COOSJE & ME a travelogue, a rendezvous, and a critique Where: Venice Beach, CA Installed: 1991 Visited: August 12, 2019 Met: Jocelyn Ma, Momoka Sasaki, Joanne Lee, Nicholas Scalfaro, Robert Peltekov Blog Entry: Oct. 12, 2019 What becomes former students who minted their senior year in a zany English teacher’s zero period class? The…

  • Flashlight: Sculpture 5 (Las Vegas)

    CLAES, COOSJE & ME a travelogue, a rendezvous, and a critique Where: Las Vegas, Nevada Installed: 1981 Visited: Feb. 17 & July 8, 2019 Met: Sara Khattab & Tia Elpusan Blog Entry: September 14, 2019 It appeared as an obelisk or megalith descended from the sky to the desert when we saw the Flashlight at…

  • Monument to the Last Horse: Sculpture 4 (Marfa, TX)

    CLAES, COOSJE & ME a travelogue, a rendezvous, and a critique Where: Marfa, Texas Installed: 1991 Visited: July 27, 2019 Met: A roadrunner, a skunk and a jackrabbit Blog Entry: August 25, 2019 This is the story of a table and four chairs and the silly, remarkable three-year journey it made from Minneapolis to Los…

  • Scale X: Typewriter Eraser: Sculpture 3 (Las Vegas)

    CLAES, COOSJE & ME a travelogue, a rendezvous , and a critique Sculpture: Scale X: Typewriter Eraser Where: Las Vegas (and Seattle) Installed: 1999 Visited: August 4, 2019 Met: Wayne Kageyama Blog Entry: August 19, 2019 Every time I go to Vegas—usually I’m cutting through—I stop at Ramen Tatsu, a few miles west of the Strip…

  • About This Blog

    I am on a quest to visit all Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen large scale sculptures.  I have only visited 13 so far – out of 40 or so around the world – but plan to pick up seven more before the year’s end. Along the way, I’ve been telling the story of my journey,…

  • Inverted Collar & Tie: Sculpture 2 (Frankfurt)

    CLAES, COOSJE & ME a travelogue, a rendezvous, and a critique Sculpture:        Inverted Collar and Tie Where:             Frankfurt am Main, Germany Installed:         1994 Visited:            June 30, 2019 Met:                 Germans Blog Entry:      2nd, July 26, 2019 Barb, Maddy and I had spent three weeks with 18-year-old students from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, starting in the hip city and crisp…

  • The Buried Bicycle: Sculpture 1 (Paris)

    CLAES, COOSJE & ME a travelogue, a rendezvous, and a critique A journey to the highbrow play land of Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen  Sculpture:        La Bicyclette Enselvie Sculpture Where:            Parc de la Villette, Paris Installed:         1990 Visited:            June 19, 2019 Met:                Marine Freychet Blog Entry:      1st, July 24, 2019 We met Marine at Park Villette on June 19, 11:41…

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