Claes Oldenburg Movies

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

Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada,...

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...

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

Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and New York. He worked briefly with Claes...

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

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...

Gathering inspiration from the world around him, Claes Oldenburg has dedicated his career to giving objects life. What many would see only as their...

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

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,...

Hannah Wilke, upon Tschinkel's suggestion, cuts fellow artist, Claes Oldenburg's hair, which is taped for Tschinkel's Manhattan Cable TV show,...

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